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Question of the Week

Layoffs of 115 newsroom staffers at The Los Angeles Times are the latest blow to the ailing news industry. What is the state of local journalism where you live, and how does it affect your community?

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Conversations of Note

In New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation Republican primary, Donald Trump, the former president, beat Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and ambassador to the United Nations.

Now many in the press are presuming a Trump vs. Biden rematch.

But I’ll proceed writing as though Haley could win, though it may strike some win, much as an underdog team could come back from a bad first quarter.