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BURLINGTON, N.J. A rubber-floored playground outside an elementary school in a small city in central New Jersey may not seem like the most traditional of political settings. But on a windy, cold afternoon on Monday, it was the spot where the Biden administration chose to begin its salesmanship of the most ambitious piece of legislation in at least a decade.
There, outside Samuel Smith Elementary School, First Lady Jill Biden told a small crowd of school board members, elementary school teachers and members of the New Jersey congressional delegation that help was on the way. And if they had trouble hearing it over the wind, a sign in all caps was there, on the lectern, to remind them: “Help is Here Tour.”
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The year began with intense scrutiny over the New Hampshire Primary and the 2020 elections. The coronavirus pandemic soon overshadowed everything. At the start of this year, NHPR s
The Exchange had a show that was somewhat prophetic: Is 2020 The Year of Resilience? It was that, and so much more.
Beyond the words and phrases of 2020 that are now part of our collective knowledge (and/or angst) like social distance, cloth face covering, quarantine, PPE, remote learning, mask up here are NHPR photos that try to capture one very long year.
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New Hampshire had expanded absentee voting - any voter could choose to register and vote by absentee ballot - due to COVID-19. In the general election, with record voter turnout, 32 percent of the Granite State cast an absentee ballot. But in-person voting remained strong. Sean Hurley photographed Emma Clark and Toby Delva, a couple of the final voters in Plymouth on Nov. 3, 2020.