Do you really think a person who trades a firearm for drugs would have consented to a background check? Never mind that it's already illegal to sell firearms to felons as well as for a felon to own or possess one.
So how would background-check legislation stop this sale? If someone has broken several laws already, would one more law have stopped him?
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State law lets towns and villages arrange to sell a property for delinquent taxes. Around the state, this option is becoming more popular as a way for towns to raise money in an economy that has town governments watching every penny and citizens voting to send budgets back to be reworked. In what is an unusual move for the town of Rockingham, the Selectboard and Village Trustees authorized Selectboard chair Thom MacPhee to act as the town agent at three...
Our photographic project “Nursing Is Normal” consists of portraits of mothers breastfeeding their children. The premise for this project is that the more something is seen, the more normal it becomes. In the last century, breastfeeding fell out of favor, thanks to the so-called advances of science pertaining to infant nutrition. When formula was introduced, it was marketed to families as superior to breast milk. Women were made to feel like their milk was not as nutritionally sound. Eventually, the...
The Windham Orchestra will play two grounded and deeply expressive works, Mendelssohn's Third Symphony, and Hindemith's Suite Nobilissima Visione, depicting episodes from the life of St. Francis of Assisi, on Sunday, April 7, at 3 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre. “This is a rich musical and spiritual treat not to be missed,” Musical Director Hugh Keelan said in a news release. “Mendelssohn shows us the swirling dances, landscapes, gloomy ruins, and other evocative locations from his tour of Scotland; in...
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