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bostonglobe OP t1_jdvigft wrote

We unfortunately didn't get any response from state politicians but based on the feedback we've been getting from this article I'm sure there will be a follow up story (or several follow up stories).

Thanks for your feedback. This is super helpful! I'll be sure to share your questions with our newsroom when pitching specific angles for our next EV piece.

We also just launched our NH bureau today and they're looking for stories to cover so I'll put this on their radar.

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bostonglobe OP t1_j6iv5wn wrote

From today's story on Globe.com:

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu said he’s considering a bid for president, one of his most direct statements to date about whether he may enter the 2024 race.

“Yes,” Sununu said Sunday when asked by CNN’s Dana Bash on “The State of the Union” whether he was mulling a presidential run. Sununu appeared on the show the same weekend that former president Donald Trump got his campaign underway with visits to New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Although the Republican governor said he does not have a timeline on when he might make an official decision, he cited the Granite State’s “live free or die spirit” as the ideal model for the GOP moving forward, noting that it “works really well” in New Hampshire.

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bostonglobe OP t1_j47axyi wrote

From the story Globe Rhode Island reporter Amanda Milkovitz:

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — A Davisville Middle School teacher accused of stalking a pre-teen girl he was coaching and harassing other students in his classes is resigning at the end of the school year, according to the lawyer representing the girl’s family.Lawyer Timothy J. Conlon said Friday that he and the family learned about the resignation through other sources the previous day — and not from the School Committee or the administration. The teacher has been on leave since spring 2022 as an investigation into his behavior continues.

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Starting in 2017, the middle-school girl’s family had tried to get school officials to do something about the teacher, who they said had fixated on their daughter and began stalking her. Frustrated by a lack of response, the family filed a formal complaint in 2018 with then-Superintendent Phil Auger, Conlon said.

It wasn’t until the family threatened to get a restraining order that the teacher was made to stop coaching middle-schoolers in North Kingstown. However, the teacher then went to coach in two other school districts and remained as a teacher at Davisville Middle School.

Then in April 2022, Conlon, who is representing current and former students in a case against former high school basketball coach Aaron Thomas brought the family’s allegations to then-interim Superintendent Michael Waterman and the US Attorney’s Office, which is investigating a complaint under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act. Waterman placed the teacher on leave and launched an internal investigation.

Conlon said the school administration said it lost the family’s original complaint. In the meantime, other former students came forward about the Davisville teacher’s behavior. A group of boys had kept a Discord log to track the teacher’s “creepy” behavior toward the girls. A young woman who read about the boys’ “Pedo Database” came forward about her own experiences in the teacher’s classroom, calling him “the worst teacher I ever had.”

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