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Coming to headphones near you on April 17th, with a first guest you won't want to miss, available wherever you get your podcasts. You know, I found myself having more sleepless nights than I can remember. And it starts to wear on you a little bit and you start to get tired and you end up talking

about it so much. It becomes an us versus them. Welcome to how to. I'm Amanda Ripley. We're all

pretty accustomed by now to ugly politics at the national level. But increasingly, as the

culture wars heat up, it can feel like these

fights are happening uncomfortably close to home. More and more local policy debates that

should be kind of boring seem to turn into full-blown feuds. Think Hatfields and McCoys.

Suddenly our neighbors, the same people we wave to in the grocery store

and sit next to in school plays, start to feel like our arch enemies. A version of this is playing out

now in the historic coastal village of Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The town seal, which dates back to

1893, reads in Latin, service through kindness and peaceful means.

But that's not how things have looked lately.

Which is why our listener Keith reached out.

He grew up in Dartmouth and went to the very same high school his kids now attend.

But he feels like the school's mascot needs an update.

We're the Dartmouth Indians, and the logo is a sort of a bust of a Native American sort of

in the traditional, I guess, warrior look.

There's been talk over the years of replacing it or retiring it, and there's always been a lot of, you know, tension in the school

committee and whether or not to do that, and we never have done it. There are a lot of vocal

town members who would like to keep the mascot, and then there are also a group that are

looking to change it as well. Keith is in that second group, the one that's fighting to change the mascot.

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