How states are spending opioid settlement cash
John Greene and his counselor, Emily Georgia, at Family & Children’s Counseling Services in Cortland, N.Y. Greene is four months into recovery for the first time since he started regularly…
In Mobile Bay, the oysters’ tale of woe
Commercial fishermen tong for oysters in Lower Mobile Bay, Ala. At the end of the 2024 season, approximately 25,000 sacks of oysters will have been harvested from the bay, totaling…
On this day in 1939
Jan. 5, 1939 The documentary on Pauli Murray was released in 2021. Credit: Courtesy of Amazon Studios Pauli Murray applied to the University of North Carolina law school, sparking white…
Marshall Ramsey: Juggling Act
The post Marshall Ramsey: Juggling Act appeared first on Mississippi Today.
Young Writers Project: ‘Where light touches you’
“Country Roads,” by Amelia Van Driesche, 18, of Burlington Young Writers Project is a creative, online community of teen writers and visual artists that started in Burlington in 2006. Each…
Push for government worker medical marijuana rights reignites
A full view of the Florida House chamber during the House Organizational Session on Nov. 19, 2024. (Photo Jay Waagmeester/Florida Phoenix) A newly elected Democrat filed a bill Friday to…
Scott Beck: We won’t forget Vermonters
This commentary is by Scott Beck of St. Johnsbury. He is the Caledonia District state-senator-elect and the incoming Senate Republican minority leader. He previously served 10 years in the Vermont…
Trump, lauded by some as a free speech advocate, files a barrage of lawsuits against news outlets
For many there is no more cherished right enshrined in the U.S. Constitution than the freedom of speech and, of course, its accompanying freedom of the press. During the November…
Newbury saffron farm sustains vision of experimentation
Jette Mandl-Abramson holds a mason jar of cured saffron. Photo by Spencer Robb/CNS Spencer Robb is a reporter with Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting &…
Anything we can do to help’: This Texas county is poised to play a key role in deportations
Starr County, Texas, resident Bernardo Garcia, 89, looks across the highway toward a border wall rising on thousands of acres of land owned by the state. Texas officials have offered…