Opinion

Letter: Concord School board decisions

Let’s commend the Concord School Board. In a time of polarization, the board managed to unite disparate groups in our community. As Kass Ardinger, former long-term board member said on 12/6/23, “The Concord community has shown a high level of...

Letter: Edleblut stonewalls legislature’s audit

Can you imagine any NH state department, agency or commission using $45 million of our tax dollars but putting roadblocks in the way of a performance audit of the program? The commissioner of education is hoping you don’t care enough to know. Our...

Letter: Obscenity in schools

The commissioner of education is anxious about pronouns hurting kids in New Hampshire schools. Maybe it’s the active shooter drills they’ve been put through since they were five, but my kids themselves are unperturbed by that stuff. Get a grip and...

Letter: A new voice in the wilderness

Most Americans regardless of which network to gather your news from are left scratching their collective heads wondering what happened to the current generation and what holds true for the future of our country. Then I read the thoughts of Hopkinton...

Opinion: Medical Aid in Dying would have spared my father’s suffering

By PAT WILCZYNSKI

Pat Wilczynski is a retired psychotherapist living in Concord. The NH End of Life Options Act, HB 1283, would have saved my father. Not from dying, but from the miserable and heartbreaking way he died.His name was Ed Wilczynski. He was over six feet...

Opinion: NH youth’s effort for a more robust climate curriculum

By ELISABETH BIALOSKY and WENDY THOMAS

Elisabeth Bialosky, Youth Campaign Organizer/350NH. Rep. Wendy Thomas, Town of Merrimack. The kids are angry. And they have every right to be.Last summer students and youth advocates concerned about climate change had an idea: “Could we work on a...

Letter: HB 1283 threatens suicide prevention progress in NH

As HB 1283 heads to the Senate, some argue that end-of-life decisions based on terminal diagnoses aren’t suicide, but a choice to end suffering. It is important to call it what it is: suicide. Regardless of assistance, it’s a decision to end life...

Letter: Sununu supports Trump

Regarding Sununu’s comments on supporting Trump during the Stephanopoulos interview, are you kidding me? This is clearly the quintessential example for “there are no words!” Does he raise his kids to believe government insurrections are okay? Lying is...

Letter: Earth Day and the corporate world

Earth Day USA, a moment to contemplate our relationship with nature. A pause, for memories, of my stint as (national) Earth Day USA’s corporate liaison to the “Fortune 100.” How would this business world relate to the special event? Might they be...

Letter: Give me a reason

I have been a registered Republican since I first voted. I’ve never voted straight party line but tended to agree with many Republican values. After the 2016 election I am unable to see evidence of any Republican values. Dysfunction is the way things...

Opinion: Inherited hatred and how to stop it

By ALICE WADE

Alice Wade is an aerospace engineer from Dover and serves as the treasurer of 603 Equality. When I grew up in the early 2000s, I didn’t know what being transgender meant. I grew up in a time when people cross-dressing on TV shows were laughed at,...

Opinion: This stinks, but if you don’t speak up it’s going to reek

By CELESTE CLARK

Celeste Clark is the executive director of Raymond Coalition For Youth. Think it’s not your issue so you don’t need to pay attention? Do you think, well I don’t use it so I really don’t care? Or, are you just plain sick of hearing about marijuana...

Letter: Spending out of control

Between the proposed spending sprees of the Concord City Council and the Concord School Board, soon the only people who will be living in Concord will be the wealthy and the homeless. According to one city councilor, the proposed new police station...

Letter: Justice can’t wait

You wouldn’t buy a used car without “kicking the tires.” Of course you’d do your due diligence to determine whether or not the car was a good deal. As voters we need to exercise the same due diligence. Before we vote in the upcoming election, we need...

Letter: We need young people like you, Tyler

Thank you Tyler Czarkowski, for the My Turn “America needs systemic change.” You are so right! I urge you to consider that all politics starts locally. Plenty is happening within our state that is driven by a national agenda driven by billionaires....

Letter: Sununu as political influencer ends

With the word “yeah,” Gov. Sununu’s job as a fast talking political influencer has ended. I speak of the answer to commentator George Stephanopoulos’s question of whether he will still support Trump, while a laundry list of Trump transgressions...

Letter: Tax dollars for education

I have been a taxpayer in NH for 38 years, most in Concord, last 5 in Loudon. I do not want our public schools to have less stringent criteria, larger classes, and the systemic loss of my taxpayer money as it has been sent instead to school voucher...

Opinion: The problem with Ukraine

By MICHAEL STRAND

Michael Strand is a candidate for Executive Council in District 4. He lives in Bedford, where he serves on the Bedford Town Council, manages a small staffing firm, and has a daughter in Bedford public schools. He holds degrees in English and history...

Opinion: It’s time to properly fund education

By SUSAN MCKEVITT

Susan McKevitt lives in Bradford. On April 11, the New York Times ran an article entitled: “It’s Time to End the Quiet Cruelty of Property Taxes.” Like many towns, Bradford recently had its town meeting, and we experienced this cruelty.Over 200...