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Columnist: Ban Confederate Flags from County Fairs

Matthew McDonald

The columnist came across a vendor selling Confederate battle flags at a booth at a county fair in New Hampshire and was highly offended, to the point that when the people running the fair refused to stop it she got Black Lives Matter on the case.

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Missouri Man Inherits Connecticut Courthouse — ?

Matthew McDonald

The state of Connecticut is closing a 19th century courthouse in the town of Litchfield and moving the court elsewhere. A lease agreement signed by the property owner in 1803 says that if the state stops using the property for a courthouse, the title reverts to the descendants of the property owner, so a 78-year-old man and the estates of his two deceased sisters will get the property.

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