Pelley for three weeks, everyone in newtown, connecticut, has longed to return to normal. Today, many of them caught a bus to get there. More than 400 students, kindergarten through fourth grade, returned to class for the First Time Since a gunman killed 20 of their classmates and six educators. They traveled to the nearby town of monroe where a closed school was reopened for them and renamed sandy hook elementary. We dont know whether this boy was sininalling peace or victory, but both seemed about right. Jim axel sod in newtown for us tonight. Reporter one Police Lieutenant here called the new school th the Safest School in america. I. D. Checks on every adult who got anywhere near the place. Police sat down with the superintendent. The thing that had been missing at the new sandy hook location were the voices and the laughter of children. And that was there today. Reporter did you have any parents not able to just let the hand go . Thats very hard. I there were parents who wanted to
Parents not able to just let the hand go . Thats very hard. I. There were parents who wanted to put their child on the bus and just couldnt quite do it. So understandable. Reporter over the holidays, volunteers helped to make the new school feel like the old s hool. The students own desks and chairs were moved. The hope was familiarity would bring comfort. Im told one parent was watching their kid and said the kid really felt comfortable when they actually saw their old cubbyhole. Those are the things they know. The children. Children like things that are a routine they know, and they like the objects they know. Reporter theres no instruction manual for this, is there . Ive said that a number of know likes lately. Theres no instruction manual. Reporter so what has been aliding you . A whats in the best interest of the people. Most importantly, whats in the best interest of the kids. Reporter is it possible for to you even get your arms around the idea that everything thats happened, an
Appalachia whol are at the heart of trump supporters. And one of the worlds richest men is pouring its fortune into ideas that will shape the 21st century. Nicolas will explain. And a novel use of drones thats taking off online, using them to safe lives instead of end them. But first, heres my take. In recent days, i have had a dream. That america has a real Republican Party. A Party Offering a serious, right of Center Alternative to the democrats. Such a contest of ideas would improve the public debate and offer americans a real choice, not the Cartoon Campaign we have today. Donald trump had the opportunity for a reset this week and managed to derail it with his talk of Second Amendment people, but forget the detour for a moment. Trumps much heralded speech laying out his economic policies was an incoherent mish mash of popularism, hypocrisy and pandering. When did the Republican Partys intellectual decay begin . According to the conservative writer david frum in his book dead right
Region of appalachian, among the white, mostly working class people who are at the heart of trumps support. Mpbls and one of the worlds richest men is pouring his fortune not into putting his name on buildings and hospitals and colleges, but into ideas, ideas that will shape the 21st centu century. He will explain. And a novel use of drones thats taking off online, using them to safe lives instead of end them. But first, heres my take. In recent days, i have had a dream. That america has a real Republican Party. A Party Offering a serious, right of Center Alternative to the democrats. Such a contest of ideas would improve the public debate and offer americans a real choice, not the Cartoon Campaign we have today. Donald trump had the opportunity for a reset this week and managed to derail it with his talk of Second Amendment people, but forget the detour for a moment. Trumps much heralded speech laying out his economic policies was an incoherent mish mash of popularism, hypocrisy and p
by Matthew Record "In the immediate aftermath of the Twenty-sixth Amendment’s passage, nearly eleven million new voters joined the general electorate. More than 50% of eligible voters between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four participated in the 1972 presidential election." (Troy 596). Since then voter participation on the part of young people has dropped precipitously.…