Saturday, November 16, 2024

ARTICLES BY CLAIRE GALOFARO

A city wrestled down an addiction crisis. Then came COVID-19

HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (AP) — Larrecsa Cox steered past the used tire shop, where a young man had collapsed a few days before, the syringe he’d used to shoot heroin still clenched in his fist.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

A city wrestled down an addiction crisis. Then came COVID-19

HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (AP) — Larrecsa Cox steered past the used tire shop, where a young man had collapsed a few days before, the syringe he’d used to shoot heroin still clenched in his fist.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

A city wrestled down an addiction crisis. Then came COVID-19

HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (AP) — Larrecsa Cox steered past the used tire shop, where a young man had collapsed a few days before, the syringe he’d used to shoot heroin still clenched in his fist.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

A city wrestled down an addiction crisis. Then came COVID-19

HUNTINGTON, W. Va. (AP) — Larrecsa Cox steered past the used tire shop, where a young man had collapsed a few days before, the syringe he’d used to shoot heroin still clenched in his fist.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

A divided nation asks: What's holding our country together?

Elections are meant to resolve arguments. This one inflamed them.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

A divided nation asks: What's holding our country together?

Elections are meant to resolve arguments. This one inflamed them.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

A divided nation asks: What's holding our country together?

Elections are meant to resolve arguments. This one inflamed them.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

America's bellwethers crumbled in aligning with Trump

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A glass case in the history museum on the main street through this city celebrates its curious place in American lore. There’s a photo of John F. Kennedy Jr. on the courthouse steps, and Richard Nixon at Terre Haute's little airport. A news reel playing …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO

Elation and Anger: Catharsis in the streets as election ends

As soon as the news buzzed on their phones, Americans gathered spontaneously on street corners and front lawns — honking their horns, banging pots and pans, starting impromptu dance parties — as a vitriolic election and exhausting four-day wait for results came to an end Saturday morning. And for all …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Dance parties and champagne: celebrating election's end

As soon as the news buzzed on their phones, Americans gathered spontaneously on street corners and front lawns — honking their horns, banging pots and pans, starting impromptu dance parties — as an agonizingly vitriolic election and exhausting four-day wait for results came to an end Saturday morning.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

'Raw exposed nerves': Anxious nation awaits Election Day

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — She could have dropped her ballot at the post office, but she wasn’t sure if she should trust the mail. She considered slipping it into the secured ballot box just outside of City Hall, but what if something happened? A fire maybe; or theft.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

'Vote and get home,' anxious voters say on Election Day

She carefully planned a five-hour drive to the polling place in her Tennessee hometown to vote on Election Day. She considered the traffic, the weather, the surging coronavirus pandemic and — something she never imagined having to contemplate — the possibility of civil unrest in the aftermath of an American …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

'Raw exposed nerves': Anxious nation awaits Election Day

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — She could have dropped her ballot at the post office, but she wasn’t sure if she should trust the mail. She considered slipping it into the secured ballot box just outside of City Hall, but what if something happened? A fire maybe; or theft.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Letters, texts, caravans, parades: Advocates mobilize voters

Sometimes her hand hurt, but Nancy Gehman kept writing. Every evening from July until mid-October, the 85-year-old retiree sat with a gel pen, writing notes imploring fellow Americans to find
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

Letters, texts, caravans, parades: Advocates mobilize voters

Sometimes her hand hurt, but Nancy Gehman kept writing. Every evening from July until mid-October, the 85-year-old retiree sat with a gel pen, writing notes imploring fellow Americans to find a way to vote.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO

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