Posts by Rob Greene
The city held its second-annual Pride flag raising ceremony on June 14 at City Hall, kicking off a weekend of pride celebrations in the downtown area.
Above and beyond the academic sphere, are the so-called public humanities — what you, me, and the other Average Joes and Joannes are talking about in our day-to-day lives.
“In the everyday moments, if you show this kind of spirit, you will heal the world. You will create community. You will be the weavers that tighten the bonds of humanity and show what true strength is. Class of 2019, stay faithful.” – Sen. Cory Booker
CNN and Harvard’s IOP doubled down on this idea for Monday night’s Town Meeting, orientating the event to young voters and packing the room with 500 students, about half of them from Harvard University. This did not go unnoticed by people commenting on the event on Twitter.
This mass trended younger than crowds at recent similar events, lots of 20- and 30-somethings, eager to hear the message and shake the hand of the Democrat: a 37-year-old Harvard graduate, Rhodes Scholar, openly gay Afghanistan war veteran who is serving his eighth year as mayor of South Bend, Ind.
Beto O’Rourke grew up in El Paso, Texas, a city of about a million people right on the U.S. border with Mexico. His choice of venue here and his decision to open his remarks in Spanish underscored a cornerstone of his campaign: He says he believes immigration and immigrants are important to the U.S.
“We gotta do something because it’s impacting everyday people,” Nick Toumpas said. “It’s impacting kids, its impacting adults, it’s impacting innocent people who are impacted by somebody else who has a problem with substance abuse — it’s an overall sense of urgency. They basically said it’s better to do something fast and then correct it as we go along, as opposed to stepping back and looking at it in a more measured way.”
More than 450 people turned out for the campaign event at Manchester Community College.
The number of homeless people in New Hampshire did not rise in 2018, according to the annual “State of Homelessness in New Hampshire” report, but the number, about 1,450, remains a ten-percent increase from 2016. Meantime, the NH Department of Education reports a 13-percent increase since last year in the number of students identified as homeless
The Brookside Congregational Church is at least 150 miles outside the U.S. Senate district Bernie Sanders hopes to retain through the general election Tuesday, but the once (and future?) presidential candidate made the trip for an event Sunday afternoon — with a pit stop at UNH-Durham — to encourage attendees to get others to vote.