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Colin Flaherty reviews and gives commentary on news with the headlines "‘It’s like he took a knee to Putin’: Mitch Landrieu on Helsinki, race, Democrats’ identity crisis" and "New Orleans shooting: 3 dead, 7 injured after gunmen open fire at strip mall" and "New Hampshire, 94 Percent White, Asks: How Do You Diversify a Whole State?"

By Jonathan Capehart July 24, 2018
“It’s like he took a knee to Putin.”

“He” is President Trump. The person who made this blunt comment about Trump’s disgraceful press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on July 16 was Mitch Landrieu. “It really is a national embarrassment,” said the recently departed two-term mayor of New Orleans. “Russia’s attempt to completely destabilize our democracy is an attack on the country, and I think the president’s response is unbelievably weak.”

Ever since Landrieu delivered an equally blunt speech on race and the removal of Confederate statues and monuments from his city, folks see him as a no-nonsense leader who should run to replace Trump. “It really is humbling for people to think that I could do that,” said Landrieu during a live-event recording of the latest episode of “Cape Up” at the “Opportunity 2020” conference, organized by the center-left think tank Third Way. “I’m not planning on running right now. I’m not saying that I’m [not] running and trying to run. I’m not doing that. I hear it, but what I attribute that to is the public being really thirsty for change.”

Published: 9:07 PM CDT July 28, 2018
Updated: 3:39 PM CDT July 29, 2018
NEW ORLEANS – Two people wearing hooded-style clothing approached a large crowd in a strip mall on South Claiborne Avenue Saturday night firing shots “indiscriminately,” killing 3 people and injuring another 7 before getting away on foot.

New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Michael Harrison said that the suspects apparently stood over one of the victims and fired several shots into that person at close range.

The New Orleans Advocate said the shooting marks the fifth time that 10 or more people have been shot in a single incident in the city since 2013.

The incident occurred in the 3400 block of South Claiborne Avenue around 8:30 p.m. in a mall that included a daiquiri shop, a cell phone store, the Chicken & Watermelon restaurant, and other retailers.

The Advocate's Matt Sledge said one woman on the scene said that one of the victims was her grandson. She was swinging her arms and just saying "Oh Lord Jesus, oh Lord."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/us/new-hampshire-white-diversify.html
By Katharine Q. Seelye July 27, 2018
New Hampshire, like its neighbors Vermont and Maine, is nearly all white. This has posed an array of problems for new arrivals, who often find themselves isolated and alone, without the comfort and support of a built-in community.

It has also posed problems for employers in these states, who find that their homogeneity can be a barrier to recruiting and retaining workers of different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds.

The issue prompted about 100 business leaders, government officials and members of nonprofit organizations to meet Thursday to search for ways that New Hampshire — which is 94 percent white — might lure other racial and ethnic groups, as well as younger people.

New Hampshire’s neighbors, Vermont and Maine, are 95 percent white, making northern New England collectively the whitest region in a nation where white residents make up just over 60 percent of the population, according to the census.

Northern New England does contain pockets that are less monolithic. They are concentrated in the largest communities — Portland, Me.; Burlington, Vt.; and in Manchester, N.H. In Manchester, for example, the white population has dropped to 82 percent, down from 98 percent in 1980. Since then, other ethnicities have been increasing, and as of 2016, Manchester was nearly 8 percent Hispanic, nearly 5 percent black and more than 4 percent Asian. In Lewiston, the second largest city in Maine, Somalis are well-established.