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The Registry of Motor Vehicles office in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Nirvani Williams
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NEPM
This spring people traveling by plane within the U.S. or entering certain federal facilities will require a REAL ID-compliant driver’s license, its state ID equivalent — or a valid passport.
House Rules Committee Chairman Jim McGovern, D-Mass., in this file photo from 2019.
J. Scott Applewhite
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AP
We take the latest CISA Local Hero Spotlight to Local Burger in Northampton, learn about a mezcal pairing-dinner event in Holyoke, and check in with Rep. Jim McGovern.
This week’s panel includes Sam Hudzik [not pictured], news director of NEPM; John Micek [not pictured], political editor at MassLive; Adam Hinds, former state senator and CEO of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute; and Springfield-based political consultant Anthony Cignoli [not pictured].
Ayu Suryawan
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NEPM
Today on The Rundown, panelists digest President Donald Trump’s first week back in office, and how his many executive orders could impact western Massachusetts.
Commentary
While commentator Susan Johnson needs to be outside for hours everyday in winter, her cat prefers to stay inside by Johnson's wood stove.
Susan Johnson
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Courtesy of the author
There’s no mud or bugs, air is crisp, the sun late afternoon beams through hemlock needles that act like prisms scattering shards of light. Who’d want to miss that?