Politics
Sarah Crosby
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Daily Hampshire Gazette / gazettenet.com
The federal government shutdown has dragged into a second week. Springfield U.S. Representative Richard Neal of Springfield, a Democrat said the shutdown could last "a while longer."
J. Scott Applewhite
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AP
We get a preview of the Fall Festival at the Berkshire Botanical Garden, find out how the Bogin Playscape Project will improve outcomes for children in western Mass., and talk next steps on the government shutdown with Rep. Jim McGovern.
Elizabeth Román
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NEPM
This week, western Mass. marks two years of war between Israel and Hamas, looks at a controversial immigration resolution in Holyoke, the end of casino mitigation payments from MGM Springfield and asks, is Massachusetts in a "soft secession?"
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- Freedom promised for Israeli hostages, uncertainty about what's next
- Vance says administration will keep fighting to send National Guard to Chicago
- 4 killed and 20 more injured in shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says
- "It feels terrible." Federal worker's family tightens their belts as shutdown drags on
- The White House is using layoffs of federal workers as leverage to end the shutdown
- How books — and bookshelves — are helping incarcerated people in Connecticut
- Afghanistan says it has killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight border operations
- Afghanistan says it has killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight border operations
Can't-Miss Stories
- A fleeting art show along the trails of Mt. Holyoke, inspired by a 19th century landscape
- Invasive bug continues to spread across Massachusetts, finds home in Hampden County
- Western Massachusetts tenants organize against high rents, out-of-state landlords
- Colleges compete for students with offers of free tuition
- "A Something Overtakes the Mind": Exhibit at Emily Dickinson Museum combines poet's words, objects
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