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Editorial: Celebrating equality

By Bret Belden · Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014

By the end of Monday, same-sex couples gained the freedom to enjoy a legal marriage in 30 states. On Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court shattered expectations when it declined to hear seven petitions from five states seeking a rejection to the right for same-sex couples to marry. The Supreme Court effectively ruled that it would leave the decision of same-sex marriage up to the state and lower federal court judges.

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Editorial: The real epidemic

By Bret Belden · Friday, Oct. 3, 2014

Underneath the politically saturated television, endless exams and pumpkin-themed everything, the people of the United States have one thing on their mind: Ebola. Or at least that’s the way it seems judging from the mass amount of media it has drawn over the past week.

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Fries: Live Free or Die

By Bret Belden · Friday, Oct. 3, 2014

Live Free or Die — for many people around the nation, this phrase is a license plate motto or the state motto of New Hampshire. But not for us, the people of New Hampshire! Live Free or Die isn’t just some ordinary, monotonous catchphrase that is printed on shirts and is sold to tourists at various places in our beautiful state.

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LeRoy: World leaders deceive public on climate action

By Bret Belden · Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014

On Sept. 21, the largest protest for climate action, the “People’s Climate March,” was held in New York with smaller protests from Seattle to Berlin. An unprecedented 310,000 activists, three times the expected attendance, gathered in historical numbers in hope to make noise ahead of the United Nations’ Climate Summit on Sept. 23.

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Chains slowly creeping into Durham

By Bret Belden · Friday, Sept. 19, 2014

The first time I came to the University of New Hampshire was in 2011, the summer before my freshman year, a shaky plebe from a small town trying to absorb every last detail.

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