A poll released Monday night shows Ohio Governor John Kasich down just six points to President Donald Trump in a theoretical New Hampshire Republican primary in 2020.
But the Ohio governor, who made a speech in New Hampshire on Tuesday widely seen as testing the waters, wouldn't commit to anything when he spoke with reporters and, in one case, the editorial board of The Concord Monitor, a left-leaning newspaper.
The mayor of West Springfield, Massachusetts doesn't like the prospect of a new charter school opening in his city because of the challenge it presents to public schools there. But he says he also finds possible ties to a Turkish cleric who has been accused by the Turkish government of trying to overthrow it "deeply concerning."
William Reichert, mayor of West Springfield, a city of about 28,000, is trying to rally opposition to the proposed new western branch of Hampden Charter School of Science, a charter school founded in 2009 in Chicopee, a city about five miles away.
