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Washington County commissioners are set to join other county leaders in Tennessee in voicing opposition to a bill that would require local governments to pay for the right-of-way of roadways

A Chicago commission is determining the fate of monuments to Abraham Lincoln and George Washington and other historical figures in Chicago as part of a "racial healing and historical reckoning

By now, there’s really no valid factual argument over the measures that work against the coronavirus. Stay home if you’re not feeling well. Avoid crowded places where the more foolhardy

Excessive teacher professional development requirements addressed OKLAHOMA CITY — Legislation to examine excessive teacher professional development training for Oklahoma’s public school teachers passed the House Common Education Committee Tuesday with a vote of 13-0. House Bill 1593, authored by Rep. Melissa Provenzano, D-Tulsa, modifies how often teachers are required to complete professional development hours by reducing the frequency of four educator trainings out of the 27 current...

EFFINGHAM — About a dozen residents Wednesday protested selectmens decision to delay town meeting and election to May. The rest of the Governor Wentworth Regional School Districts towns — Brookfield, New Durham, Ossipee, Tuftonboro and Wolfeboro — are voting in March, as in past years. The protesters, led by Leanne Leonard, a mother of three children in the school district, stood outside the town offices starting at 5 p.m. while selectmen Michael Cahalane (chair), Chuck Fuller an...

The Monroe County Commission has laid the groundwork to set up community taxing districts to pay for expensive neighborhood sea level rise mitigation projects throughout the unincorporated areas of the Florida Keys. The commission on Wednesday did not set an exact fee or location for each district but only approved the ability to levy a property tax “for road elevation and improvement projects to be constructed due to the sea level rise and flood mitigation program and authorizing the crea...

We choose our words carefully, so when we use a strong one, we mean it. Today we shall use a strong one. Perhaps several strong ones.

Oscar lived his life by the lyrics of Jon Bon Jovi’s song “IT’S MY LIFE" The lyrics go as follows: ITS MY LIFE, and its now or never, I aint gonna live forever, I just want to live while Im alive, ITS MY LIFE my heart is like an open highway, "I did it my way" I just want to live while Im alive......... Oscar was a life-long resident of Cincinnati and the child of Holocaust survivors (the late Ike and Rebecca [nee Berliner] Jarnicki).  He went to Woodward High School and met h...

In baseball, three strikes and you’re out. In today’s politics, it’s one strike and you’re out. Just ask Richard Burr. Our senior Senator listened to all the evidence in the Trump impeachment trial and voted the courage of his convictions, declaring the former president guilty. The North Carolina Republican Party Executive Committee wasted no time. They couldn’t kick Burr out of the party, but they did vote to censure him. Make no mistake: Republicans in Congress weren�...

McDONOUGH — The Henry County community came together virtually Wednesday morning to collectively pray for Board of Commissioners member Gary Barham.