NEPM - Homepage

Valley Voices Call For Stories. Theme: Sorry Not Sorry. Audition line open until Jan. 2. Get info.

National

Sen. Kyrtsen Sinema speaks at the U.S. Capitol after the Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act in November.

Anna Moneymaker

Getty Images

Here's what Sinema's switch from Democrat to independent could mean for the Senate

Rachel Treisman

Sinema's move is unlikely to change the power balance in the Senate, as it comes days after Sen. Raphael Warnock won the Georgia runoff election to give Democrats a 51-49 majority.

Connecticut

Tyler Russell

Connecticut Public

Regional News

Violence intervention specialists hired at Connecticut hospitals hope to break cycles of violence

Sujata Srinivasan

Hartford Hospital, Saint Francis Hospital, and Connecticut Children’s have hired violence intervention specialists. They are starting to study the outcomes.

Regional News

Flickr Creative Commons

/

Mass. Office of Travel and Tourism

Hiring, diversity reporting become issues during MGM Springfield's sports betting license hearing

Adam Frenier

MGM Springfield's struggles hiring women came up as gambling regulators considered the casino's sports betting license.
Charlie Neibergall

/

AP

Massachusetts launches $50M fund to aid clean energy startups

The new fund will provide Massachusetts clean energy companies with an average of $500,000 and up to $1.5 million in early-stage financing.
Massachusetts organizations receive $4 million for coastal resilience projects

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announced more than $136 million in grants for projects to restore salt marshes and increase coastal resilience across the nation, including 12 in New England.
Pool Photograph

/

Nora Grace-Flood / New Haven Independent

5 New Haven, Connecticut, officers charged after Randy Cox paralyzed in police van appear in court

The five Connecticut police officers who were recently charged with reckless endangerment and cruelty for neglecting a Black man after he was partially paralyzed in the back of a police van appeared in court Thursday.

Connecting Point

Take the stage at the Academy of Music with community theater group Valley Light Opera

Watch Now

Commentary

"Adam's Creation" by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel, Rome.

Joerg Bittner 02303-969977

Wikimedia

Commentary

As conflicts over gender and sexuality persist, priest urges: Let go of the idea of God as binary

An Episcopal priest says some of society's impassioned differences over gender and sexuality might be resolved by reconsidering how a seminal biblical passage about God's image is usually interpreted.