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A DoorDash driver starts to bag up an order in Daly City, Calif. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Christie Hemm Klok for The Washington Post.

NH restaurants push for tighter regulations on food delivery apps like Grubhub, Doordash

by Ethan Dewitt Concord MonitorFebruary 16, 2021

FILE - This combo of 2020 and 2021 file photos shows U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., left, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, during committee hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington. Despite Vermont's reputation as one of the most liberal states, it is the only state that hasn't sent a woman or a member of a minority group to Congress. In the past 30 years there has been just one vacancy in the three-member delegation. (AP Photos/Pool, File)

Missing from Vermont’s congressional delegation? Diversity

by Wilson Ring Associated PressFebruary 14, 2021

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2014 file photo a Los Angeles Police officer wears an on-body camera during a demonstration in Los Angeles. An agreement with Boston's largest police union to have 100 officers wear body cameras was praised as a step toward greater accountability. But with the Sept. 1, 2016, rollout date for the pilot program approaching, not a single officer had volunteered to wear one. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

House hears bill to require and pay for police body body cameras

by Ethan Dewitt Concord MonitorFebruary 8, 2021

In this image from video, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the president pro tempore of the Senate, presides over the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021. (Senate Television via AP)

Sen. Patrick Leahy hospitalized ‘out of an abundance of caution’

by Alan Fram Associated PressJanuary 26, 2021

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020, to examine the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)

Leahy to preside over trial in Senate

by Kit Norton VtDiggerJanuary 25, 2021

Attorney General Gordon MacDonald has an opportunity to elevate the debate over the school voucher bill.

NH AG Gordon MacDonald renominated to be chief justice of state Supreme Court

by Ethan Dewitt Concord MonitorJanuary 21, 2021

Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Jill Biden holds the Bible during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, as their children Ashley and Hunter watch.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Biden supporters in Vermont and New Hampshire cheer new administration

by Alex Hanson Valley News Staff WriterJanuary 20, 2021

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders arrives for the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol for President-elect Joe Biden in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

Bernie Sanders’ Vermont-made inaugural mittens heat up the internet

by Kevin OConnor VtDiggerJanuary 20, 2021

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and State Department Chief of Staff Jon Finer, left, meet with members of the U.S. delegation at the garden of the Palais Coburg hotel where the Iran nuclear talks meetings are being held in Vienna, Austria, Friday July 10, 2015. Kerry urged Iran to make the “tough political decisions” needed to reach an agreement but Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused major powers on Friday of backtracking on previous pledges and throwing up new "red lines" at nuclear talks. (Carlos Barria/Pool via AP)

Two with Upper Valley ties will have jobs in Biden administration

by Tim Camerato Valley News Staff WriterJanuary 20, 2021

State Police watch from afar as people protest outside the Statehouse, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, in Concord, N.H., as Gov. Chris Sununu is inaugurated at noon for his third term as governor. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Police-Fire-Courts

Two NH bills up for hearings Tuesday would take police transparency in starkly different directions

by Ethan Dewitt Concord MonitorJanuary 18, 2021