Monday, April 1, 2013
Geezers have been freeloading long enough. As of today, senior citizen discounts are outlawed. Graybeards and bluehairs have to pay full price, just like everyone else. Happy April Fools Day. The preceding paragraph is false. What’s true, however, is that a bill has been filed that would end …
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Building a new state prison for women in Concord on the grounds of the existing men’s prison makes perfect sense. Doing so will allow the Department of Corrections to share resources between the two institutions, minimize the need to duplicate services, save taxpayers money and presumably end litigation …
Friday, March 29, 2013
No conflict since the Civil War divided the nation as much as the long, slow war in Vietnam, a war that saw more than 2.5 million Americans serve and cost 58,202 soldiers their lives. Political turmoil at home meant that there were no ticker-tape parades for returning veterans. …
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Last week, by an overwhelming margin, the New Hampshire House voted to allow restaurants and bars to push back last call from 1 a. m. until 2 a.m. The change would align the state’s hours with those in Massachusetts, cut down on cross-border bar-hopping, benefit bars, clubs and …
Thursday, March 28, 2013
The end of the paper paycheck is almost here. Senate Bill 100, sponsored by Sen. Jeb Bradley, would hasten the day when nostalgia buffs – and workers who don’t want their spouse to know about overtime pay or a bonus – shed a tear for the paycheck’s demise. …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case involving California’s Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that overturned that state’s law permitting gay marriage. Today, it will hear claims and counter-claims on the constitutionality of the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act, the law that forbids federal …
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Sheryl Sandberg has created big buzz with her new book Lean In, advice for women trying hard to get ahead in the workplace, which can still be a man’s world. Many readers have wondered: Are the life experiences of the super-rich applicable to the rest of us? Do …
Monday, March 25, 2013
Last year, in an attempt to remedy the gross gender imbalance in employment in science and technology fields, the European Commission created a video targeting young women. It was called “Science: It’s a Girl Thing.” The ad consisted of laughing and dancing girls interspersed with foaming beakers and …
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Two years ago, the Legislature eviscerated the state’s Child in Need of Services program, thus dooming some number of the 1,000 delinquent children served every year to life on the streets and a path to prison. Half of those children suffer from a mental illness, behavioral disorder or …
Friday, March 22, 2013
Bounded roughly by Interstate 393, Curtisville, Oak Hill and Josiah Bartlett roads, the Broken Ground, at some 1,400 acres, is the largest undeveloped parcel in Concord. The city council should take a big step toward keeping it undeveloped by approving the conservation commission’s vote to pay $975,000 for …
