Jill Kaufman
Reporter/Producer/HostJill has been a reporter and host at NEPM since 2005. Before that she spent 10 years at WBUR in Boston, producing The Connection with Christopher Lydon, Morning Edition, reporting and hosting. In the months leading up to the 2000 presidential primary in New Hampshire, Jill hosted NHPR’s daily talk show The Exchange. Right before coming to NEPM, Jill was an editor at PRX's The World.
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"We're Still Here," depicting Native Americans who live in western Massachusetts, is a rare contemporary installation in the Springfield Science Museum's old Native American Hall. But the effort has sparked some backlash. -
The 2022 National Youth Poet Laureate Alyssa Gaines visited Holyoke, Massachusetts, this week for a reading of her work with students close to her own age, some who had dropped out of high school and are now working toward graduation.
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El objetivo de observar el Día de Muertos en Holyoke Community College es enseñar a los estudiantes sobre las diferentes culturas.
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Students and staff at Holyoke Community College in western Massachusetts, celebrated the Mexican tradition of Día de Los Muertos, setting up an alter with photos of loved ones who've died.
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A climate center now based in Geneva, Switzerland, is relocating this fall to the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Governors have considerable sway over the state's public schools. Whether Massachusetts residents elect Geoff Diehl or Maura Healey next week, the new governor will be hearing from school leaders whose districts are run by the state and want a return to local control.
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The state of Massachusetts has a long list of official symbols, from baked goods to animals and several rocks. But — so far — the state does not have an official sedimentary structure. That could change with the efforts of an enthusiastic geologist.
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Joseph Thompson pleaded not guilty to a single count of motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation, in connection with a 2018 collision in North Adams, Massachusetts, that killed a motorcyclist.
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The trial of former MASS MoCA executive director Joe Thompson began this week in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, district court. Thompson is fighting a vehicular homicide charge.
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The Vermont-based Grammy and Tony award-winning folk singer and songwriter Anaïs Mitchell is also in the band Bonny Light Horseman. They're about to release their second album.
