by Olivia Olander | Mar 19, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Campaigns, interest groups and political parties may not be effectively tapping into a pool of nearly 100 million Americans in 2020: nonvoters. There’s greater focus on people who will likely turn out in November, rather than finding new groups of voters...
by Olivia Olander | Mar 17, 2020 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Reading a map with her back to the Washington Monument, Anne Basanese, a grandmother on vacation from Massachusetts, prepared herself to respond to the novel coronavirus by cutting her trip a day short. “We pushed our luck coming here and we’re...
by Olivia Olander | Feb 27, 2020 | Featured, Technology
WASHINGTON — With the 2020 primary season underway, voters in some states and overseas will cast their ballots electronically, instead of going to the polls or mailing in ballots. But the ease of electronic voting is unlikely to be available to most Americans in...
by Olivia Olander | Feb 12, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics, Topics
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Sen. Bernie Sanders scored an early victory in New Hampshire today, marking a solid start to the primaries and reminding the Democratic electorate of the strength in his left-leaning message. “Our campaign is not just about beating Trump. It’s...
by Olivia Olander | Feb 11, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
DURHAM, N.H. — On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders took the arena stage, his name emblazoned on a drum set behind him, a stark contrast to the setting of a traditional stump speech. Thousands of millennial and Gen Z supporters showed up...
by Olivia Olander | Feb 11, 2020 | Campaign 2020, Featured, Politics
NEW HAMPSHIRE — For first-time voters from across New England, campaign season in New Hampshire provides an opportunity to get up close and personal with the candidates. High school classes, college clubs and other groups of young people were among the thousands...
by Olivia Olander | Feb 4, 2020 | Featured, SOTU2020
WASHINGTON — A sparse group of protesters hung around the street corners in front of the Capitol Tuesday to show their opposition to President Donald Trump as he delivered his third State of the Union address. In years past, larger groups met the president when...
by Olivia Olander | Jan 28, 2020 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — A general sense of urgency overshadowed policy details at a Republican-led Senate hearing Tuesday about the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare. The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee considered how to reconcile the...
by Olivia Olander | Jan 22, 2020 | Featured, Politics, SOTU2020
WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed to favor proponents of religious schooling during oral arguments on Wednesday by allowing parents to spend government tax credits on private religious education. The case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of...
by Olivia Olander | Jan 16, 2020 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration broke the law when it withheld funds for assistance to Ukraine to further his own interests or policy priorities, according to a report released Thursday by the Government Accountability Office that deals with one of the two...
by Olivia Olander | Jan 15, 2020 | Business, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – Women and people of color should once again receive a tax incentive to purchase broadcast TV and radio stations to diversify station ownership that is now substantially under 10 percent, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee said Wednesday at...
by Olivia Olander | Jan 9, 2020 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The 2020 census could undercount hard-to-reach populations because it will be the first to be completed largely online and the Trump administration’s failed attempt to add a citizenship question may scare away immigrants, especially those who are...
