Opinion
Letter: Israel’s actions are self-defeating?
The Holocaust was an unspeakable horror and nothing justifies Hamas’ October atrocity, not even Israel’s decades long systematic ill treatment of the Palestinians. Israel’s war to irradicate Hamas may succeed in the short term, but will it in the long...
Letter: Dental workforce shortage
In Tom Raffio’s My Turn “Oral health access for all,” he alludes to a workforce shortage which contributes significantly to the access to dental care those covered by the now one year old NH Adult Medicaid Dental Program. It also limits access and...
Opinion: NH legislators must act to ban PFAS in consumer products
By TOM IRWIN
Tom Irwin is vice president and director of CLF New Hampshire. Each time we turn on the tap, we expect clean water. But in recent years, towns and cities across New Hampshire have discovered a dirty truth. Water in many communities has been tainted...
Letter: Rooming house welcome addition
I was pleased to read Michaela Towfighi’s article regarding the efforts of Next Step Living, Inc. to create a rooming house for adults living with developmental disabilities in the Concord community. As executive director of Fellowship Housing...
Letter: Millions for new PD station
I just saw that the city wants to spend $41 million to rehab the old Insurance building on No. State St. that they bought from Steve Duprey for $40 million. Just exactly where will this money come from ? Oh I know, our taxes! So we can see another...
Letter: Legislature should adjust priorities
Pembroke again made the news because of its contentious district meeting and huge cuts to its school budget. Pembroke is not an anti education town though it may have appeared so that day. Pembroke Academy had recently been named high school of the...
Opinion: First-year anniversary of the adult Medicaid dental benefits, the race has just begun
By TOM RAFFIO
Tom Raffio is the president & CEO of Northeast Delta Dental. One year ago, adult Medicaid recipients became eligible for dental benefits. It took 25 years of advocacy, education and legislative work to pass a comprehensive adult Medicaid oral health...
Opinion: Granite Shore Power upholds promise to transition to clean energy
By JIM ANDREWS
Jim Andrews is CEO of Granite Shore Power. For nearly three quarters of a century, Merrimack Station in Bow and Schiller Station in Portsmouth have reliably served the energy needs of families and businesses across New Hampshire. These facilities...
Opinion: Fiscal autonomy is good for Concord public schools
By KASSANDRA ARDINGER
Kassandra Ardinger is a former chair of the Concord School Board. She’s lived in Concord for 35 years, and her three children went to Concord public schools. She currently serves as a member of the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees....
Opinion: The Comstock Act and the continuing threat to women
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. After the oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court on the Mifepristone case, FDA v Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, most pro-choice commentators breathed a sigh of relief. It appeared that the Court was not buying...
Opinion: For foresters, biologists, and lovers of science, maintain the Bartlett Experimental Forest
By ANN DAVIS
Ann Davis of Wilmot owns and manages the Woods Without Gile, a 500-acre sustainably managed woodlot that is protected from development by a conservation easement. It was New Hampshire’s 2022 Outstanding Tree Farm of the Year. Did you know that New...
Opinion: Climbing my family tree
By PARKER POTTER
Parker Potter is a former archaeologist and historian, and a retired lawyer. He is currently a semi-professional dog walker who lives and works in Contoocook. Until recently, I have not been all that interested in family history. I enjoyed my...
Opinion: The goal of police service
By JOHN BUTTRICK
John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. The Concord Police chief writes on the police website, “Our department strives to develop strong relationships with...
Opinion: Season of messages, promises and reminders
By ROBERT AZZI
Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com Spring has been sprung for about a week. Sharp, pointy green shoots reaching for light appear through earth cracks and promise...
Letter: Controversy and the Concord School Board
Controversy and the Concord School Board have never been strange bedfellows. In the 60s the residents of Penacook were given the choice of joining the CSD or MVSD. Fearing the control over the CSD by elite forces who would treat their students as the...
Letter: Exercising our rights is a threat?
In the April 4 Monitor article about Concerned Citizens of Concord’s intent to take action to revise the school board charter, school board president Pamela Walsh characterized such intent as a “threat.” Section 49-B:3 II of the New Hampshire Revised...
Letter: Consequences
Among the rites of spring is school budget time. School boards are struggling to maintain staff and programs, mindful of property taxes. The elephant in the room is the absence of an equitable tax system. As board members and taxpayers debate, we hear...
Letter: NH Senate bill violates our rights
The NH House will soon consider Senate bill 439-FN, an act “prohibiting discriminatory boycotts of Israel in state procurement and investments.” Section VI states: All requests for information, requests for proposals, or other similar requests related...
Opinion: Debunking the myths of organ donation
By DAVID TEUNE
David Teune of Concord is a donation coordinator for New England Donor Services (NEDS). Over 100,000 people in the U.S. are currently on the national organ transplant waitlist. Patients anxiously await the phone call to inform them that a stranger...
Opinion: Hanover hoops: Dartmouth College and basketball unions
By MIKE MOFFETT
State Representative Mike Moffett (R-Loudon) was a Sports Management professor for Plymouth State University and NHTI-Concord. He currently chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs. A 2014 court case ruled that the...
