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Commentary: Help local news thrive in NH
Local news is how we look out for one another. It explains a school vote in plain language, answers the questions behind your tax bill and introduces you to an exciting new business downtown. When our newsrooms have what they need, we all see clearly and decide together. When they don’t, important choices happen in the dark.
Valley News website to get major upgrade, enhancing user experience
The Valley News is making technological upgrades to its website with the first changes scheduled to roll out over the next week. By RICH WALLACE Valley News Publisher Published: 08-12-2025 3:30 PM The Valley News is making technological upgrades to our website with the first changes scheduled to roll out over the next week. These will include features that will make our website easier to read, engage and explore our stories, and allow access and easier navigation to our archives.
Campus wars and watermelons
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Welcome to This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new and old that resonate with the week’s big news story. You’re part of a community of more than 9,000 subscribers in 109 countries. The few minutes it takes to read this newsletter will make you smarter, faster. Or click on the audio button above for the podcast – it’s a quick listen. These book suggestions come with a summary and quotes.
Campus wars and watermelons
Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Welcome to This Week, Those Books, your rundown on books new and old that resonate with the week’s big news story. You’re part of a community of more than 9,000 subscribers in 109 countries. The few minutes it takes to read this newsletter will make you smarter, faster. Or click on the audio button above for the podcast – it’s a quick listen. These book suggestions come with a summary and quotes.
In the Wake of Bonnie Candia-Bailey’s Death, Students Amplify Their Calls for Change
On February 8, one month after Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey’s suicide, dozens of Lincoln University students and alumni gathered outside the university’s Board of Curators meeting to protest what they believe to be the lack of accountability and unanswered questions surrounding Candia-Bailey’s death.
Can Employee Ownership Meet Its “Silver Tsunami” Moment?
For years, employee ownership advocates have called attention to what is known as the “silver tsunami”—an impending wave of business owner retirements affecting US businesses with tens of millions of employees. As business owners retire, employees could potentially buy these businesses and become owners themselves. This happens—sometimes. But not often enough. For this to change, there must be a fundamental shift in how transitions to employee ownership are financed.
Why Reparations Can Counter the Legacy of a 50-Year “War on Drugs”
This is the third article in NPQ’s series, The Vision for Black Lives: An Economic Justice Agenda. Co-produced with the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), this series will examine the many ways that M4BL and its allies are seeking to address the economic policy challenges that lie at the intersection of the struggle for racial and economic justice.
The right-wing scheme to upend public education - for $125 per hour
On June 20, educational consultant Jordan Adams delivered a much-anticipated presentation to the Pennridge School Board, revealing his recommended changes to the Eastern Pennsylvania school district's social studies curriculum. Adams, the founder of Vermilion Education, appeared via Zoom.
Celebrate the 27th Annual Celebrity Golf Classic with YouthBuild Inland Empire & So Cal Black Chamber of Commerce
News Search | All News Topics > World Bank News Topics: By Country | By State ; Press Releases by Industry Channel > All World Bank Press Releases This remarkable gathering provides sponsors the opportunity to help support YouthBuild Inland Empire, a high school program for disadvantaged young adults.
Picture Books and Primary Sources: The Teachers March! By Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace, Illustrated by Charly Palmer
By Tom Bober on 01/21/2021 • So many historically based picture books now focus on lesser-known events or individuals. When those books fill in gaps of knowledge and connect to other events that we do know, they can broaden students’ understanding of a moment in time or historical figure. The Teachers March! How Selma’s Teachers Changed History is a book that may help do just that. Not only may it show students another aspect of what was happening in Selma in 1965.
Militarizing the police: A long legacy of state violence is what brought us here
Federal officers walk through tear gas during a dispersal of about 300 protesters in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention building on August 26, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Protests continued for the 91st night in Portland as activist called for solidarity with rallies in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images) Police have come to resemble occupying armies, turned against their own people.
2019 Summer Reading Booklist
For fans of Stuart Little and Poppy, here is a middle-grade adventure in which a mouse and a shrew, lost at sea, try to navigate to their home in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Braving multiple dangers, they discover they have more in common than they could ever have imagined.
- Sidney Daily News
The Dec. 7, 2018, edition of the Sidney Daily News carried an article about the funeral of President George H.W. Bush and the front row seat two young Sidney men had for part of the proceedings. Pfc Jay Clark (SHS 2017) and Senior Airman Caleb Smith (SHS 2014) both had roles. Clark drove the bus carrying the Air Force honor guard to Arlington Cemetery. Smith served as a backup pall bearer.
First Generation
Celebrate the genius, diversity, and grit of immigrants and refugees in this boldly illustrated guide to 36 American trailblazers.The men and women in this book represent nations from Somalia to Germany, from Syria to China, from Mexico to Sweden, and more. They are people like Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, international singing sensation Celia Cruz, star basketball player Dikembe Mutombo, world-renowned physicist Albert Einstein, and influential journalist Jorge Ramos.
Search for the North Pole a survival story
“Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Story”By Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace Late in the 19th century, many people were bit by the adventure bug. Explorer David Livingstone spent 30 years of missionary work and traveling in deepest Africa.
THE 2016 NERDIES: LONG FORM NONFICTION ANNOUNCED BY DONALYN MILLER
Posted by donalynm on December 31, 2016 in 2016 Nerdies, Book Lists | Since my childhood, I have been fascinated with nonfiction books. I read our family World Book Encyclopedias and Time-Life books from cover-to-cover and methodically worked through every biography and wildlife book in my elementary school library. My lifelong fascination for natural and human history, geography, and life sciences began in that library, and I still love to read nonfiction books written for adults and children.
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