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The holidays may be over and 2020 is here, but there’s little slacking in the election campaigns. Democratic presidential candidates spent the holidays courting voters in the early states of Iowa and New Hampshire with the first primary looming about a month away on Feb. 3. For local candidates, it was equally busy. The quartet […]

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