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Can we ever get enough of Muhammad Ali? No! And so, another documentary about him is automatically good news on some level.

Registration is open for the final two sessions of the Bridging Divides, Healing Communities Speaker Series. The next session, titled “How Modern Media Can Create and Bridge Divides,” will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The guest speakers are Alec MacGillis, politics and government reporter at ProPublica, and Charles M. Sennott, founder, CEO and editor of The GroundTruth Project and Report for America. They will discuss how cable news and social media are amplifying narratives of disco...

  Dog license renewal forms and fee information can be found here, or at townofgb.org/town-clerk. You may also pick up or drop off a license form at Town Hall by calling ahead, (413) 528-1619 ext. 2100.   License applications received after March 31 are subject to a late fee of $10 per dog. Owners of dogs that are unlicensed after May 1 will be assessed a $25 late fee. A $50 ticket for an unlicensed dog will also be issued by the towns Animal Control Officer.

You might call it Biden’s 'America First' approach.

Wisconsin nice: How a Madison liberal and Hayward conservative talk politics and still like each other Renee Hickman, Wausau Daily Herald How Wisconsin liberals, conservatives can buck polarizing divisions Replay Video UP NEXT The images of two men facing their computer cameras are displayed side by side over Zoom. One, with gray hair and a goatee, sits in a white room with paintings on the walls; the other, in a baseball cap and dark hoodie, sits in front of a backdrop of fr...

Grant Program Gives Berkshire Organizations Shot in the Arm Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation announced in a press release Monday (Jan. 25) the distribution of over $48,000 through its Bridging Divides, Healing Communities grant program, a new initiative to support community-building activities aimed at strengthening relationships and trust at the local level, especially among people who hold different points of view or come from different backgrounds. Twenty-one organizations in four coun...

NCDD partner organization the National Civic League is hosting a webinar this Thursday, January 21st at 2:00 PM Eastern/11:00 AM Pacific. The webinar, titled  Bridging Divides through Community Dialogue features NCDD’s own Courtney Breese as well as members John Sarrouf of Essential Partners and Hollie Cost, former mayor of Montevallo, Alabama. We hope you will join this exciting event! For more information, check out the event announcement below, or go to the webinar registration page to s...

Hes not interested in bridging divides. you look at the reactions, teleprompter trump had a much different message than finger-trigger trump who showed up last night and this morning on the south lawn of the white house. i had a chance to talk to beto orouke and he said thats why were up here doing this today, thats why hundreds are here to send a message, the way the president depicts what happens here and things of latinas, congressmen and woman of color, its not the reality on the ground. in ...

Back, but i also want to ask you about bridging the divide. youve said in previous interviews that its still not easy to have conversations about your sexuality, even with your own family. im wondering what youve learned through your experience about bridging divides and perspectives that could apply to the polarization in todays society on really any number of issues. >> well, i think we see it at a number of levels. for me in oregon, the divide we see thats greatest is the divide between our u...

Bridging divides, and that is what will happen tomorrow as well. tom. >> martha raddatz for us tonight, martha, thank you. and abc news will have live coverage of tomorrows memorial service beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern. now to president trumps attacks on the justice department, the fbi, and the robert mueller investigation. the presidents personal attorney rudy giuliani saying hes preparing a rebuttal report to muellers findings, whatever they may be and the new abc news poll showing presi...