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EDITORIAL: Are you feeling better off or not?
As we close out 2017 and prepare to welcome in 2018, Americans should ask themselves this basic question: Are you better off than you were a year ago, and more importantly, do you expect to be in an even better place at this time next year? That's because while extremists of both major political parties continue to engage in a struggle of ideas, most of us just want to feel we have greater control over our lives. It usually begins with a sense of economic security.
Voters can control Trump at the ballot box in 2018
Grit your teeth. Persevere. Just a few more days and this awful, rotten, no-good, ridiculous, rancorous, sordid, disgraceful year in the civic life of our nation will be over.
Coast Guard cutter frees 1,000-foot freighter stuck in ice near U.P. island
The James R. Barker was trapped in ice before she was freed by the U.S. Coast Guard ice-breaking tug Biscayne Bay.
Mueller wants ‘Trump’s scalp,’ says GOP congressman
Republican Congressman Louis Gohmert did not mince words Tuesday in attacking the FBI special counsel appointed to investigate potential ties between Russia and Donald Trump's campaign during the 2016 elections. Republican wasn't done, also saying that Mueller would love nothing more than to become "a hero of the left."
Sharyl Attkisson: 10 times the intel community violated the trust of…
In 2002, the NSA reportedly engaged in "blanket surveillance" of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, collecting and storing "virtually all electronic communications going into or out of the Salt Lake City area, including a emails and text messages" to "experiment with and fine tune a new scale of mass surveillance." NSA officials had denied such a program existed.
Farmers in 3 mid-Michigan counties in line for federal help
Farmers and ranchers in Ingham, Jackson and Livingston counties may qualify for natural disaster assistance if they encountered agricultural damage caused by a frost in May. According to our media partners at WHMI , on Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a release declaring those three counties as natural disaster areas due to losses and damages caused by frost and freeze that occurred May 7th through the 9th of this year. All qualified farm operators in the designated areas are eligible for Farm Service Agency emergency loans, provided eligibility requirements are met.
Prince Harry interviews former US President Barack Obama on the Today programme
Harry has joined the presenters of the current affairs programme in the studio and said the issues he had chosen, which included mental health, the charitable sector and the Armed Forces, were "incredibly important topics we all need to think about and need to be discussed." The prince has interviewed former US president Barack Obama for the programme and the statesman warns that the irresponsible use of social media is distorting the public's understanding of complex issues and leading to the spread of misinformation.
Resisting partisan fever
To the Editor: Passage of federal tax reform in Congress generated heightened and over-the-top rhetoric on both sides of the political spectrum.
In the heart of Trump Country, his base’s faith is unshaken
The regulars amble in before dawn and claim their usual table, the one next to an old box television playing the news on mute. Steven Whitt fires up the coffee pot and flips on the fluorescent sign in the window of the Frosty Freeze, his diner that looks and sounds and smells about the same as it did when it opened a half-century ago.
Jonah Goldberg: Trump’s year-end list of accomplishments
U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at West Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., Dec. 22, 2017.
Jennifer Horn: GOP can keep the wave from crashing in NH next year
I got a note from my editor suggesting a topic for my year-end column. Midterm elections, he suggested, would be fun to write about.
Kathleen Sullivan: I didn’t see the 2006 wave coming
When Grant Bosse proposed that Jennifer Horn and I write about midterm wave elections, he suggested describing when we first knew a wave was coming.
Mobile friendly: Government on the go
Every once in a while, just as we are convinced that bipartisanship is dead on Capitol Hill, a Republican and a Democrat will come together to revive our faint hopes.
New Hampshire Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut
For some reason, Frank Edelblut drives Democrats at the State House completely crazy.
Looking back at 2017: A new threat in opioid crisis
People in New Hampshire and other parts of the Northeast were treated to an unexpected light show Tuesday when a bright fireball that appeared to be a meteor shot across the sky.
Bitter cold expected until New Year in US Midwest, Northeast
A cold week of more of the same is projected for the ... A Utah sheriff's deputy says he was desperate and numb from the cold as he punched and stomped his way into a frozen pond to pull out an 8-year-old boy who had fallen through the ice while chasing his dog. A Utah sheriff's deputy says he was desperate and numb from the cold as he punched and stomped his way into a frozen pond to pull out an 8-year-old boy who had fallen through the ice while chasing his dog.
Erie smashes snowfall record with flakes still falling
The National Weather Service office in Cleveland says the storm brought 34 inches on Christmas Day, a n... A New York jury that found two former South American soccer officials guilty of bribery charges is set to continue deliberations against a third official. A New York jury that found two former South American soccer officials guilty of bribery charges is set to continue deliberations against a third official.
News | Noel Frias: 17 Who Made a Difference in 2017
Frias was part of a group that pressed for answers about the financial and non-profit accountability of the Providence NAACP Branch in May -- when he appeared on GoLocal LIVE to express his concerns . He was part of a group of minority leaders that questioned Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's membership to the all-white Bailey's Beach Club -- after Whitehouse had transferred his stock ownership in the club to be solely in his wife's name when he first ran for Congress in 2006.
Rahul, Pawar, Mamata… Who will lead the UPA now?
The Trinamool Congress and Nationalist Congress Party have indicated that their party chiefs have better credentials for the post than the newly-elected Congress head, reports Archis Mohan. There is uncertainty on whether Congress president Rahul Gandhi would also succeed his mother Sonia Gandhi as the chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance, particularly after key former and potential constituents, like the Trinamool Congress and Nationalist Congress Party, have indicated that their party chiefs have better credentials for the post.