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Ten things to know about voting

An election checklist for voters before and as they vote Study the issues and candidates using nonpartisan resources: Make use of fact check organizations who seek to offset inaccurate, misleading, or false claims by politicians and partisan political groups. The League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan political organization, is a good source for election information. Know your rights and responsibilities before heading out to the polls: To vote in many states, voters must provide a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or government document that shows the name…

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Kathy Hochul’s Improbable Turnaround

On many mornings, as New York City is waking up, a diminutive grandmother from Buffalo puts on sneakers and a baseball cap and takes a 45-minute walk with her husband around the streets near their apartment on Manhattan’s East Side. Her security detail keeps its distance, and hardly anyone seems to recognize Kathy Hochul on these strolls, even though she has been the governor of New York for the past five years. Not many big-state governors enjoy such anonymity, but the spotlight has been slow to find the 68-year-old Hochul.…

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A Reckoning in Springfield

Photographs by Carol Guzy This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. He kept going over the details. “I run this route every day, like clockwork,” the trucker was saying, heading west to where he had first seen the man on the side of the highway. Now it was a Sunday morning, his day off, and Jack Buhring was driving his mother’s minivan, retracing the route, trying to make sense of what had happened less than a week before. His girlfriend, Renee…

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