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Jun 7, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Sarah Isgur |Kevin Williamson |Alex Kershaw
Sarah Isgur is a senior editor at The Dispatch and is based in northern Virginia. Prior to joining the company in 2019, she had worked in every branch of the federal government and on three presidential campaigns. When Sarah is not hosting podcasts or writing newsletters, she’s probably sending uplifting stories about spiders to Jonah, who only pretends to love all animals. David French is a columnist for the New York Times. He’s a former senior editor of The Dispatch.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Grayson Logue |Kevin Williamson |Alex Kershaw |Patrick Brown
Grayson Logue is the deputy editor of The Morning Dispatch and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he worked in political risk consulting, helping advise Fortune 50 companies. He was also an assistant editor at Providence Magazine and is a graduate student at the University of Edinburgh, pursuing a Master’s degree in history.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Alex Kershaw |Nick Catoggio |Will Rinehart
New York abandons its plan to charge drivers $15 to enter parts of Manhattan. Published June 7, 2024 The thing about America is, it is full of Americans. Even in Manhattan, where, in spite of what you might have heard, the local political realities are not so different from what they are in the rest of the country. New York had a big idea—it was going to impose “congestion pricing,” meaning a $15 daily fee for anybody who wanted to drive a car in Manhattan below 60th Street.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Alex Kershaw |Kevin Williamson |Wilson Shirley |Arthur Herman
There are so few left from so many. The 80th anniversary of D-Day on June 6 was yet another reminder of how thin the ranks have become of those who served this nation in World War II. Of the around 16 million Americans who did their duty, about 119,000 were still breathing as of 2023. From this cohort of extraordinary survivors, I know of fewer than a dozen Americans who actually saw action on that day in 1944, arguably the most momentous date of the 20th century.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
myemail-api.constantcontact.com | Alex Kershaw |Belle Lin |Carrie Keller-Lynn |Eduardo Kaplan
Quotes of the Day:“In keeping silent about evil, and burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.
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May 27, 2024 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Alex Kershaw
Readers familiar with the Academy Award-winning film “Patton” (1970) will recall a pivotal moment where General George S. Patton — played by George C. Scott — summons a chaplain to his headquarters. Patton asks the man for a prayer to change the bleak weather conditions in favor of his Third Army, which needed to break through to other American forces besieged in the Belgian crossroads town of Bastogne.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
wwiimemorialfriends.org | Alex Kershaw
I’ve written two accounts of D Day, The Bedford Boys and The First Wave, and have visited the beaches many times, and so I know only too well that seemingly countless books have been published about the most famous of WWII’s many amphibious invasions. These are the ones I enjoyed most and would recommend to anyone wanting to visit Normandy or just to marvel, almost eighty years later, at the enormity and drama of one of the most important days in modern history.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
wwiimemorialfriends.org | Alex Kershaw
It had to happen one day. The last of the survivors of the USS Arizona was going to pass away. Indeed, the news that Lt. Commander Louis A. “Lou” Conter had died this 1 April came as no great surprise. Nonetheless, it was widely regarded as a poignant closing to a remarkable chapter in US naval history.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
wwiimemorialfriends.org | Alex Kershaw
Paul Priest is the last survivor of the Americans who fought their way across the legendary Ludendorff Bridge on 7 March 1945. I happened upon a Wikipedia entry the other day. I was researching notable “last living WWII survivors”. Someone has been diligent – filling in the date of death for each person. So very few in a long list are still alive.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
indepthnh.org | Paula Tracy |Alex Kershaw |Monica West
Courts & Corrections By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.orgCONCORD – State Senators Becky Whitley, a Democrat, and Republican William Gannon clashed over a bill he filed to require local law enforcement officers detain illegal immigrants here and prohibit the creation of sanctuary cities. Whitley called Senate Bill 563 an unfunded mandate while Gannon said he considers it a safety measure.
