“I would hate to see what our communities look like without local news,” said Williams, whose own reporting helped keep a mayoral candidate with neo-Nazi ties from being elected in Franklin, Tennessee.
It serves as a kind of civic foundation, and it remains strong only when people engage with it, use it, and take some responsibility for sustaining it, writes Stu Faigen.
One of the school systems, Delaware Valley School District in rural eastern Pennsylvania, received notice of the change from the Trump administration in February and has since voted to roll back its anti-discrimination protections for transgender students
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned the U.S. that attacks on civilian infrastructure are banned under international law.
Spiking fuel and fertilizer costs are putting a dark cloud over spring planting season.
