As bombs fell, panicked commuters were stuck in traffic. Buildings were blasted to the ground in neighborhoods all over the capital, raising clouds of dust and palls of smoke into the sky. Nowhere seemed safe as Lebanese tried to find loved ones.
“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
Spiking fuel and fertilizer costs are putting a dark cloud over spring planting season.
