Opinion: The benefits of the Concord City Forests

By RON KLEMARCZYK

Ron Klemarczyk of Hopkinton is the city of Concord’s consulting forester. There was a recent My Turn column claiming that the city’s ownership of the Beaver Meadow golf course and the city forests is akin to creating “red-lined” zoning districts. My...

Letter: Keep Concord family friendly

I have been a Concord resident for forty four years. I have seen a lot of changes to the city, many, such as our growing homeless population, are sad to see. A 43,000-square-foot casino will do nothing to improve the quality of life in our city. My...

Letter: The kindness of a stranger

Last Sunday, I was in line at the Fort Eddy Market Basket. I realized I could save money if I purchased my items elsewhere, so I put back five. I just wanted to get home, and back to bed. I could barely stand, I’ve been very ill with COVID since...

Letter: Redlining in Concord

In 2017, two young New Americans spoke at my church asking us to sign a petition to city council for lighting at Keach Park which would allow workers and students to play soccer after work or school. They were doing business the right way and the...

Opinion: A shared healthcare responsibility for NH

By KEN DOLKART

Ken Dolkart, MD FACP, lives in Grantham. What we pay for hospital care is anyone’s guess. When the bill arrives, charges vary with that year’s employee-sponsored health insurance or whether you were laid off and uninsured. The affordability of an MRI...

Letter: New Hampshire’s homeless

Thursday morning I drove past a homeless encampment on Constitution Ave. in Concord and witnessed the NH State Police vacating its inhabitants. The New Hampshire homeless problem is a major systemic problem of our state government, to insure adequate...

Letter: Look to zoning, planning boards for solutions

Any conversation about solutions for the homelessness crisis that do not begin and end with housing is fruitless. A lack of housing has exacerbated the homelessness issue and ultimately more housing is the solution. Putting pressure on police...

Letter: Support for HB 326

When it comes to controlling wildlife, quite often we solve one problem only to create another. Such is the case with second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs), poisons developed to kill rodents. These chemical poisons were created as a...

Letter: The EPA must protect our communities

Methane pollution from the oil and gas sector is accelerating the pace of climate change and harming the health of our families and communities across the country. The EPA has updated a draft rule that improved upon or maintained many of the standards...

Opinion: What Republicans fail to understand about the debt crisis

By JOHN L. CAMPBELL

John L. Campbell is the Class of 1925 Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Dartmouth College. His most recent book is “Institutions Under Siege: Donald Trump’s Attack on the Deep State.” Congress is poised for another needless knock-down drag-out fight...

Letter: News options

On January 22, in the first five minutes of the Channel 9 6 a.m. news were two stories: a blue lobster then one about a chicken sledding down a snowy hill. Good grief, who determines these things to be newsworthy? Really wish we had another channel...

Letter: Should the wealthy pay taxes?

How do you feel about the new law introduced in Congress by the Republicans, i.e., Kevin McCarthy and “Buddy” Carter (R-GA), to impose a 30% national sales tax on gasoline, heating oil, food, rent, children’s clothing, and services such as car-repair...

Letter: Response to ‘Modern-day redlining’

Kevin Porter’s My Turn “Modern-Day Redlining in Concord,” (Monitor, 1/19) argues the city’s support of Beaver Meadow golf course and recreation on conservation land is comparable to “redlining,” the illegal lending practice where banks deny loans in...

Opinion: Watching the watershed

By MICHAEL SIMPSON

Michael Simpson is a professor in Environmental Studies at Antioch University New England and works with the department’s Center for Climate Preparedness and Community Resilience in Keene. For us that love the winter in the lakes region of New...

Letter: Slavery & insurrection in NH

Recently, while researching the origins of burial grounds in Concord, I read an 1824 publication, Annals of The Town Of Concord by Jacob B Moore. It didn’t include what I was looking for, but it contained a wealth of NH historical references and...

Letter: Stop school voucher bills

The NH education “voucher program” makes my blood boil. Does it not occur to our state legislators that these education funds could be going to any type of religious institution? What if a family wants a voucher to have their child attend a school...

Opinion: Defunding the IRS only serves to help the rich

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot.One of the first acts of the new Congress was a House Republican effort to rescind Internal Revenue Service funding. Under President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, Democrats directed almost $80 billion to the IRS...

Opinion: Do the Dark Ages beckon?

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Mass delusions were unheard of for those old enough to be around in 1978. We were flabbergasted when we heard Jim Jones had induced his...

Opinion: In the absence of Roe v. Wade

By OGE YOUNG

Oge Young is a retired OB-GYN and past president of NH Medical Society. January 22, 2023, was to mark the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that protected the privacy of a woman and her physician in her decision...

Opinion: An analysis of a war economy

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Rocker in his Concord home: Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. Outside my window is a view of pine trees, some scrub oaks, and a few red maples. Cones and seeds drop to the ground from...