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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Attends SCOTUS Meeting Today; First Appearance In Weeks

Bill Gnade

The Hill is reporting that 85-year-old US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) attended a "justices' private conference" at the court today (2/15/19) after a lengthy absence following surgery in late December. Justice Ginsberg suffered a fall last November in which she suffered broken ribs; during a medical examination, "cancerous nodules" were noticed on her lung and were surgically removed in the December procedure.

Speculation about Ginsburg's health status the past few weeks has run the gamut, with some even wildly speculating that RBG was being kept on life support by liberals who fear President Donald Trump, should the generally liberal RBG die, would fill her vacancy with a conservative justice. Twitter users even created a hashtag, #wheresruth, to trade in such rumors.

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NH’s Only Pulitzer Prize-Winning Newspaper Selling Building, Land, For Smaller Digs

Bill Gnade

Confronted by a "shrinking" newspaper industry, the Concord Monitor, a much-lauded daily newspaper in the NH state capital that garnered a Pulitzer Prize in 2008, has announced it is putting its 25-year-old building up for sale and relocating its news and advertising departments, and its printing press, to a smaller space closer to the city.

The Monitor, the flagship paper of Newspapers of New England, Inc., said the 70,000-square-foot building will be listed, along with approximately 103 acres in its corporate park on 1 Monitor Drive in East Concord, for $6.5 million.

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