My Turn
It's my job as a parent to prepare my children for the future. But what if I have no idea what the future holds? My parents urged me to go to college and didn't care what I majored in as long as I got the degree. That's a luxury few can afford today. I've watched this recession and the lead-up to the recession devalue dozens of respected careers. Who foresaw the…
July 30, 2011
After bailing out of Franklin High School in her senior year, Jennifer Brown is taking courses again and is on track to graduate in the spring.
Brown, who was never actually counted as a dropout, is succeeding because Franklin gave her the chance to work at her own pace in an alternative, off-campus program called the Academic Recovery Center. The 18-year-old is even optimistic…
January 2, 2007
Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack signed it this month. And before former Virginia governor Mark Warner decided not to run, he signed it.
The banner reads: "Concord High School: A Required Stop on the Road to the White House," and that's what students and school officials want to make it.
Since 1988, they've made their school…
December 26, 2006
New England
Perhaps Jack Frost is not abandoning northern New England this Christmas. Maybe he's just running a day late.
While the prognosis for snow on Christmas morning remains grim, a cold front and rain could change over late in the day to create a winter wonderland for the 26th, just in time for folks to try out any snowshoes, skis or sleds that Santa brings.
"You can take your Christmas…
December 23, 2006
Concord
A group of lawmakers voted yesterday to recommend the state spend $24 million to renovate a building near the state hospital for certain mentally ill offenders, including those who are sexually violent.
The commission was formed last year to find a better arrangement to house and treat sexually violent offenders and those considered incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason…
November 10, 2006
Democratic challengers Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter have unseated New Hampshire's incumbent Republican congressman, Charlie Bass and Jeb Bradley.
Shea-Porter's win made history. She is the first woman from New Hampshire elected to Congress, upsetting Bradley with a grassroots anti-war campaign.
The win also marked…
November 7, 2006
Hudson
Born in Kenya, Marine Raban Anthony Kimungu fought for America. Yesterday, he was buried as an American citizen.
U.S. Marines carried Kimungu's flag-draped casket into the church yesterday morning for a service full of family stories and Christian hymns sung in English and Kikuyu that lasted into the afternoon. There,…
November 4, 2006
Nashua
Edward McDuffee, of Hollis, turned down Democrat Paul Hodes's offer of campaign literature yesterday as the 2nd District candidate toured the Senior Activity Center of Nashua.
"Well, I'm going to vote for you anyway," he said.
"So we'll save the paper?" Hodes asked.
"That's the idea," McDuffee said.
With less than…
November 2, 2006
National party committees are now targeting money at the 2nd District congressional race between Republican Charlie Bass and Democrat Paul Hodes with new television attack ads.
The National Republican Congressional Committee's ad brands Hodes a "liberal" and says his lack of support for the Bush tax cuts would result in higher income taxes, a reduced child tax credit, the return…
November 1, 2006
Developing renewable energy sources is a priority for Republican Rep. Charlie Bass and a matter of national security to Democrat Paul Hodes.
"I'd like to see the day, as soon as possible, when nobody can accuse us of going to war over oil because we're energy independent," Hodes said. "If we're serious about our national security, we must have energy independence."
Both candidates…
October 30, 2006
Corrections Commissioner William Wrenn said roughly 70 percent of state prison inmates in New Hampshire have problems with substance abuse.
But after they leave prison treatment programs, a shortage of community-based care means many offenders go back to their drug habits and commit new crimes to feed those habits.
"We need to do whatever we can to stop the revolving door," Attorney…
October 28, 2006
The Shakers quarried the stone in nearby Canaan and slid it across the frozen lake to get it to their building site in Enfield. They dug the foundation, milled the lumber and spent three years crafting cupboards, banisters and hundreds of built-in drawers before completing what's known as the Great Stone Dwelling in 1841.
Over time, this vibrant community of Shakers would fade into…
October 18, 2006
Jersey cows, with their sandy-brown fur and molasses eyes, are among the bovines that have quietly produced organic milk for decades in New England without much interest from the academic world.
That's changing. The University of New Hampshire has 48 pregnant Jerseys at its Burley-Demerrit Farm in Lee, the nation's…
October 9, 2006
new hampshire
Experiencing racial or ethnic discrimination could be hazardous to your health.
Those are the results of a new public health study conducted by the New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition in Manchester with help from researchers at Brandeis and the universities of Michigan and New Hampshire.
"If I feel discriminated against, I may be less likely to seek care," the Minority Health…
October 8, 2006
