Republican presidential candidate John McCain attends at a town hall campaign event at Peterborough Town Hall in Peterborough, New Hampshire on November 2, 2008. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images hide caption Republican presidential candidate John McCain attends at a town hall campaign event at Peterborough Town Hall in Peterborough, New Hampshire on November 2, 2008.
After coming harrowingly close in the primary race for the District 9 state senate seat last year, Peterborough Democrat Jeanne Dietsch is making another run for the seat in 2018. Dietsch's 2016 campaign centered around knocking on doors, and she said that's a model she intends to continue.
"Girls" creator Lena Dunham and author-essayist Ta-Nehisi Coates, strangers until Monday night, found they had a lot in common. "If what has to happen is that I get metaphorically strung up by my toes because I think we were all born equal and beautiful, then that's just what's going to happen," Dunham said.