By NARAIN BATRA
Narain Batra is the author of several books including the most recent “India In A New Key: Nehru To Modi.” He is working on new book, “There’s Nothing Like The Indian Democracy.” He lives in Hartford, Vermont. Last June in a White House meeting,...
By GABRIEL PERRY
Laconia city council approved the purchase of 601 Main St., current site of the Laconia Antique Center, in a 4-2 vote following hours of discussion at their regular meeting Monday night.The city will purchase the back two thirds of the building for...
President Biden, Israel’s latest illegal land-grab continues a systematic practice which has been going on for decades and which creates the seeds for groups like Hamas. It violates international law, the spirit, if not the letter, of UN Security...
Alexei Navalny’s killer Vladimir Putin is no misunderstood or “demonized” despot as Bruce Currie alleges. Putin has a lengthy history of having his political opponents eliminated through extrajudicial executions. On March 17, 2023, the International...
A more resilient NHTen years ago, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marked a turning point in ensuring equitable healthcare coverage nationwide. Louis Karno & Company proudly played a pivotal role in this transformation, particularly in New Hampshire,...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
In Kadyn Dean’s favorite class at the Pembroke Hill School, she works with robots, builds cardboard houses, and helps maintain a local hiking trail. In the past week, the third grader learned the class – called ILAB – is not expected to continue next...
By DAYMOND STEER
The Main Street Program’s president says she was blindsided by the Ossipee selectmen’s plan to tear down the Main Street building, which the board discussed in public last week.The Main Street Program, according to its Facebook page, is a non-profit...
By ELIZABETH HARPER
Elizabeth Harper, PhD is the executive director of the Lake Sunapee Protective Association. It isn’t surprising that many New Hampshire residents are unfamiliar with wake boats and may not feel compelled to urge their representatives in the House to...
By DAVID BROOKS
The region’s last coal-fired power plants, located in Bow and Portsmouth, are expected to switch to large-scale solar power and battery-storage under plans put forward by their owner, Granite Shore Power, marking New Hampshire’s first big transition...
By RICK GREEN
The N.H. House Finance Committee on Tuesday recommended, 13-11, that the full House reject a bill that would expand eligibility for free lunches for children in public schools.It was a party-line vote with Republicans against House Bill 1212 and...
By JOSH ROGERS
A top Republican budget writer in the New Hampshire House has proposed boosting state aid to public schools by $400 million a year and requiring any future education spending increase made at the local level to be approved by a supermajority...
By PAUL STEINHAUSER
After six terms in Congress, Democrat Annie Kuster says she won’t seek re-election to the House of Representatives this year.“I always said I wouldn’t be there forever and most of my colleagues don’t realize this,” the Hopkinton lawmaker...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
New Hampshire Hospital has expanded its bed capacity in an effort to stop boarding patients in hospital emergency rooms.The “E” unit at the inpatient psychiatric facility in Concord, originally designed for children, has undergone renovations to...
Reselling tickets to, say, a Taylor Swift show at five times the true cost would become illegal under a Senate bill that caps the asking price to face value. The legislation would also prohibit the sale of “speculative tickets” that resellers claim to...
Franklin Footlight Theatre presents Dan Goggin’s popular musical comedy, “Nunsense!”When the Little Sisters of Hoboken find themselves in dire need of burial funds following an accidental convent-wide poisoning, they decide that the best way to raise...
Milford, NH – New Hampshire Antique Co-op proudly presents the debut of two exceptional art exhibitions this spring: Selections 24: Notable Works and Along the Shore: Paintings from Cape Ann to Provincetown.To commemorate the launch of these...
By FRANCES B. LIM LIBERTY, KEITH J. LOUD and JESSICA A. SMITH
Dartmouth Health Children’s Frances B. Lim Liberty, MD, Medical Director, Pediatric and Adolescent Transgender Program, Keith J. Loud, MD, MSc, Physician-in-Chief, Jessica A. Smith, MSN, APRN, Coordinator, Pediatric, Adolescent and Young Adult...
By PHIL SLETTEN
The U.S. and N.H. economies appear to be escaping high inflation without suffering through a recession. Despite substantially rising prices in the first half of 2022, prompting about a third of N.H. adults to report that it was somewhat or very...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Mattresses, feminine hygiene products, food packaging and several other everyday items with added forever chemicals, may face a potential ban as a bill prohibiting their sale and distribution in New Hampshire progresses forward to the House of...
By NICOLA SMITH
LEBANON — In 2013, Alastair Huntley was struggling with depression and an overreliance on medication after being prescribed opioids after surgery for a knee injury, which left him in pain. Then a student at Norwich University in Northfield, Vt.,...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Eliminating elementary teaching positions and a proposed middle school resource officer, while including a new math interventionist and world language teachers at Rundlett, the Concord School Board made a balance of cuts and additions to its draft...
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