Restore state auto inspections

If you drive at night or walk beside the road, you will often see vehicles with only one working headlight. Until this year you could take comfort knowing the headlight would be replaced during the mandatory state inspection. Now, there is no mandatory inspection so the driver might not notice until both headlights are out. The same can be said for bad brakes, balding tires, low oil, extreme rust and other problems. This isn’t just a problem for the car owner. It makes the road more dangerous for the rest of us, especially in the rain and snow.

In 2024, the State House was taken hostage by Free Staters masquerading as Republicans. In many ways, Kelly Ayotte enabled them. Now, most of them have been shown the door and I hope the new State House will reinstate the mandatory inspections and reverse much of the damage they did to this state.

Walter Hamilton, Portsmouth