According to the American Psychiatric Association, more than one-third of Americans worry about climate change at least once a week. Paradoxically, some political strategists have advised politicians to avoid talking about the subject. Some studies show people just aren't talking about it much, despite their worry, but there are also efforts to break that silence, through comedy.
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The death of labor rights leader Dolores Huerta has many Latinos in Connecticut honoring and remembering her legacy.
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Massachusetts new state-of-the-art Veterans Home in Holyoke was unveiled Thursday, marking a major milestone in the transformation of veterans care in the state, officials say. Formerly known as the Holyoke Soldiers' Home, the facility was built on the site of a deadly 2020 COVID-19 outbreak, where at least 76 veterans died — a tragedy that helped the push to replace it.
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Critics suggest the larger-diameter pipe could someday carry more gas than the two old pipes combined, if an expansion received government approval. But that is not part of the current plan, the pipeline owner says.
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Hantz Marconi admitted an error in judgment for conversations she had with the governor and others during her husband’s criminal investigation. She’ll face no discipline.
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Maine's Senate race could turn on a simple question: Are Maine voters angry enough at President Donald Trump that they’ll part with Republican Sen. Susan Collins, the state’s longest serving senator in more than a century?
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GDP grew at an annual rate of 3.4% in the third quarter in the last major read on the economy ahead of the midterm elections — but many Americans continue to struggle with affordability.
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Federal law requires the Education Department to erase the student loans of borrowers whose colleges close suddenly. A new lawsuit claims the department isn't fully following those rules.
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Maine DEP and CDC met with city council officials and the public to break down results from six years of ambient air studies following concern over air pollution from the city's many oil tank facilities.
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