Letter: Lights for Keach Park

Thanks for the recent (Dec. 28) article about Change for Concord leaders advocating for lights at the Keach Park soccer field. As someone who lives in Concord Heights, one of the most vibrant and diverse neighborhoods in Concord, I would urge the city...

Letter: Immunizations

To James Trice’s My Turn about Dr. Edward Jenner’s discovery of immunizations, I would like to add the work Louis Pasteur. It was Louis who discovered the miniature world of living organism’s, bacteria, virus and fungi and as the cause of disease. He...

Letter: Sununu, Kuster climate contrast

The article “Traction in the Snow” (Monitor, 12/26) regarding Rep. Annie Kuster’s skiing and her father’s role as being one of the cofounders of Wildcat Ski Area shared similarities with Gov. Sununu. The Sununu family purchased Waterville Valley in...

Letter: No raise for legislators

I just read that legislators are asking for a huge raise. They currently get $100 a year, and now they want $2,000 a year. Their reasoning is because by them being elected to the Legislature it costs them money. Well didn’t they know this before they...

Letter: A system of trust and honor

Oh, wow, who would have believed that our electoral college system would be the source of so much controversy today? Heck, I taught this stuff to my senior American government class for decades. On its face it was simple enough. Our founding fathers...

Letter: An anti-Black woman view

When Mike Moffett writes a My Turn, I always wonder what inaccurate calculus he will apply. He takes issue with Kamala Harris being a political choice stating, “Biden’s virtue-signaling ruled out 95% of possible VP candidates due to race and gender.”...

Letter: NH presidential primary

Of course New Hampshire will have its first-in-the-nation presidential primary next year: state law requires it. The Republican Party hasn’t changed its calendar, and Gov. Sununu wants the national exposure. The only question is what the Democratic...

Letter: Shortage solution

It’s impossible to ignore the reports of nationwide shortage of prescription and over-the-counter medicines to treat the tsunami of respiratory viruses. Drug manufacturers can’t snap their fingers and up their output to meet the demand. A first-year...

Letter: We can co-exist

For decades near my home a stretch of road over a wetland floods when beavers build dams, an unintended consequence of their need to maintain high water levels to protect their family lodges. Yesterday, a town agent came to expel them. You can’t...

Opinion: Roberts court is an ethical embarrassment

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. As a court watcher, I have long thought the U.S. Supreme Court has escaped the type of critical scrutiny it deserves. Most media coverage focuses on wins and losses without going too under the surface. But maybe that...

Opinion: A better approach to cell service in Bow

By SUSAN MARCOTTE-JENKINS

Susan Marcotte-Jenkins of Bow attended the Monitor’s opinion writing workshop this summer. I’m a Bow resident with nothing personal at stake in the town’s cell tower project except the serious concerns everyone has over Bow’s inadequate cell service.I...

Opinion: The amazing heroism of Leon Lewis

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. While the great battle against fascism in World War II was fought in Europe, there was also a fight against fascism inside the United States in the 1930s-1940s. There is little recollection now that there was a...

Opinion: The historical precedent of January 6

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. The sedition convictions of Oath Keepers’ leaders, Elmer Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs, returned focus to the events of January 6. While the January 6 Committee has done an excellent job ferreting out facts, there...

Opinion: Transforming and modernizing juvenile justice

By JOE RIBSAM

Joe Ribsam is director of the Division for Children, Youth & Families at the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services. Over the last five years, New Hampshire has transformed the way it serves juvenile offenders. During this time, the...

Letter: Science versus myth

Yet another timely book has been recently released: Turtles all the Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth by an anonymous author and edited by Mary Holland and Zoey O’Toole of Children’s Health Defense.For those with inquiring minds, you will likely...

Opinion: Antisemitism has a home among MAGA Republicans

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. When I was growing up, my family belonged to Main Line Reform Temple, a reform Jewish congregation in the Philadelphia suburbs. I was bar mitzvahed and confirmed there. For about ten years, I regularly attended...

Opinion: Not a law and order party

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Going as far back as the Richard Nixon presidency, the Republican Party has played the law and order card, arguing that they are the party that will keep Americans safe from crime and disorder. Of course, Nixon was...

Opinion: Minimizing and missing the fascist threat

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Around seven years ago, I started raising the question of whether Donald Trump and the MAGA movement he led were fascist. Numerous academics and mainstream journalists pooh-poohed that characterization as imprecise...

Opinion: The little-known story of Jewish illegal immigration

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. I think it is fair to say that fear of immigrants in the United States is out-of-control. And it’s not just in the United States. Fascist and far-right politicians have persuaded citizens in many countries that the...

Opinion: The dark history of the Second Amendment

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. With mass shootings practically a daily event, defenders of unrestricted gun owner rights typically invoke the mantra of the Second Amendment. Attention is rarely paid though to the historical circumstances...