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1 month ago | 
npr.org | Kate Dario |Darian Woods |Julia Ritchey |Kate Concannon
Why is the federal government still killing coyotes? Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1239050327/1267808522" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Erica Baradat/AFP via Getty Images Erica Baradat/AFP via Getty Images The federal government spends millions of dollars each year on wildlife damage management, a program that includes killing thousands of coyotes.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
vermontpublic.org | Kate Dario
When new state restrictions on trans athletes took effect in August, Maëlle Jacques was nervous. “Initially, it really freaked me out,” said Jacques, who just started her junior year at Kearsarge Regional High School. Jacques, who is trans, has been a goalie on the girls’ varsity soccer team since last season. She’s been playing soccer since was 3 years old and has made many close friends on the field. “The team environment in soccer is something special,” she said.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
ctpublic.org | Kate Dario
New Hampshire Public Radio | By Kate Dario Published September 10, 2024 at 9:32 AM EDT When new state restrictions on trans athletes took effect in August, Maëlle Jacques was nervous. “Initially, it really freaked me out,” said Jacques, who just started her junior year at Kearsarge Regional High School. Jacques, who is trans, has been a goalie on the girls’ varsity soccer team since last season.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
nhpr.org | Jackie Harris |Kate Dario
Voters are heading to the polls for today's state primary. In this final stretch before the general election, NHPR has been talking to New Hampshire voters about the issues they're paying attention to at the local and national level. Here's some of what we heard. Denise Steadman: I think the homeless issue in New Hampshire is very important and the housing. So I'm hoping that whoever gets in can really help with construction, building homes for these people who want to come to New Hampshire.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
sentinelsource.com | Kate Dario
On a recent late summer afternoon, with the state primary election just days away and scores of candidates vying in several dozen races, Helen Lacroix of Franklin was focused on a different set of numbers. “It’s the two of us, and it’s like $100 here,” she said, gesturing to her half-full grocery cart in the parking lot of a Penacook Market Basket. “Does that look like $100? I don’t think so — but it is.”Many New Hampshire residents are making similar calculations these days.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
nhpr.org | Kate Dario
On a recent late summer afternoon, with the state primary election just days away and scores of candidates vying in several dozen races, Helen Lacroix of Franklin was focused on a different set of numbers. “It’s the two of us, and it's like $100 here,” she said, gesturing to her half-full grocery cart in the parking lot of a Penacook Market Basket. “Does that look like $100? I don't think so — but it is.”Many New Hampshire residents are making similar calculations these days.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
vnews.com | Kate Dario
E-Edition Advertise Newsletters Subscribe Home News Opinion Sports Photos Arts & Life Obituaries Classifieds Calendar Puzzles A playing field at Memorial High School in Manchester, N.H. (NHPR - Gaby Lozada) By KATE DARIO New Hampshire Public Radio Published: 08-26-2024 6:01 PM As young athletes gear up for another fall sports season, some local school districts are still trying to figure out how to enforce a new state law barring trans girls from playing on girls sports teams. The law, which...
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
wbur.org | Kate Dario
As young athletes gear up for another fall sports season, some local school districts are still trying to figure out how to enforce a new state law barring trans girls from playing on girls sports teams. The law, which took effect on Aug. 19, requires middle school and high school sports teams to be separated “based on the biological sex at birth of intended participants” into one of three categories: males, men, or boys; females, women, or girls; or coed or mixed.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
nhpr.org | Kate Dario
As young athletes gear up for another fall sports season, some local school districts are still trying to figure out how to enforce a new state law barring trans girls from playing on girls sports teams. The law, which took effect on Aug. 19, requires middle school and high school sports teams to be separated “based on the biological sex at birth of intended participants” into one of three categories: males, men, or boys; females, women, or girls; or coed or mixed.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
sentinelsource.com | Kate Dario
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn Mission launching on Aug. 26 will get closer to the moon than any manned spacecraft has in more than 50 years. And Granite Stater Scott “Kidd” Poteet will be onboard. “We’re also going higher than anyone has gone since Apollo 17, 1972,” Poteet said. (The expedition is set to travel 1,000 kilometers past the International Space Station.)Poteet, the expedition’s mission pilot, is currently in the midst of a 10-day quarantine before next week’s launch.
