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Connecticut School Board Brings Back Indian-Theme Nickname for High School

Matthew McDonald

A high school in Connecticut has its old nickname back.

Less than a year ago, a Democrat-controlled school board in Killingly voted to change the school's Redmen nickname, deeming it racist and offensive, as Fox News reports.

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Baker Administration Has No Fallback If Regional Carbon-Emissions Gasoline Fee Pact Fizzles, Aide Says

Matthew McDonald

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker doesn't have an alternative plan if the Transportation Climate Initiative disintegrates amid governors backing out because of projected increases in the cost of gasoline, a Baker administration official said.

Kathleen Theoharides, the Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, deflected a question about recent announcements by the governors of Vermont and Connecticut during a legislative committee hearing Tuesday, January 14.

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