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Letter: Haley’s troubles

01-02-2024 3:43 PM

Nikki Haley’s attempts to clarify her remarks about the Civil War seem to require more explanation. For example, what exactly does she mean when she says that “it was about the role of government.” Every historian I know of acknowledges that the war...


Letter: Observations

01-02-2024 3:43 PM

Nikki Haley has done us a great service. In her attempts to explain her response to the “gaffe” she has revealed the heart of today’s Republican Party. Although she claims “government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people,” I...


Letter: Access to voter registration for NH

01-02-2024 3:43 PM

42 states now have online voter registration. New Hampshire is one of only 8 states that does not offer this to its citizens. For far too long voter registration has been difficult, sometimes impossible, for New Hampshire citizens. Presently voter...


Letter: History of Hamas

01-02-2024 3:43 PM

Some historical context here. Hamas was created in 1987 by three men who as boys survived the 1956 rounding up and killing of Palestinian males between 15 years of age and up in Gaza by the Israeli occupying forces. Originally the Israeli government...


Opinion: Clarence Thomas must recuse from January 6 cases

01-02-2024 6:00 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Back in November, the U.S. Supreme Court announced a new code of conduct. The announcement came in response to mounting criticism of the unethical behavior of certain justices, particularly Clarence Thomas. His...


Opinion: The only path to peace

10-16-2023 5:00 PM

By DAISY GOODMAN and SHARON RACUSIN

Daisy Goodman lives in Lyme. Sharon Racusin lives in Hanover. We are writing as Jews and residents of the Upper Valley of New Hampshire who are deeply saddened by the suffering and death of this past week in Israel/Palestine, and all that has occurred...


Opinion: The dog as a mobile detection device

10-15-2023 11:00 AM

By MAURICE REGAN

Maurice Regan is a psychologist who runs Companion Dog Training.  He handles an obedience titled K9 that is also trained in scent. Recent articles in the Concord Monitor regarding the hunt for the killer of Wendy and Stephen Reid described the role of...


Opinion: Mindful forgetting

10-15-2023 11:00 AM

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. The cricket’s persistent song of autumn used to haunt me, reminding me how brief life is, especially now I’m old. But it doesn’t have to...


Opinion: Speaking freely

10-14-2023 5:00 PM

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick lived for three months in Jayyous, Palestine as an accompanier for the World Council of Churches. For three years he was media coordinator and communication strategist for Kairos Palestine. He lives in Concord and can be reached at...


Opinion: Would the world have been any safer?

10-13-2023 10:15 AM

By CHARLES HUCKELBURY

Charles Huckelbury lives in Henniker. For those of us who have lived long enough, memories of the country at war remain painful but relieved that our democracy was resilient enough to survive both domestic and foreign assaults. Donald Trump remains,...


Opinion: Discerning the depths of AI

10-12-2023 5:00 PM

By STEPHANIE RUTT

Rev. Dr. Stephanie Rutt is founding minister of the Tree of Life Interfaith Temple in Amherst. She lives in Nashua. In the October 8th 60 Minute story featuring Geoffrey Hinton, a British computer scientist now called the “Godfather of AI,” Hinton...


Opinion: The abortion riddle

10-11-2023 5:00 PM

By DOUG LOWE

Doug Lowe lives in Concord. As we all know, abortion is a medical procedure whereby a pregnancy is terminated. It is, of course, unique to the female half of our population. And abortion is a subject with an interesting history. The practice dates...


Opinion: The candidates Concord needs now

10-10-2023 5:00 PM

By CARISA CORROW

Carisa Corrow of Penacook is co-author of “126 Falsehoods We Believe About Education” and founder of Educating for Good. While Concord is a great little city with much to offer, it’s not perfect. We have some complicated issues that need to be...


Opinion: Why my inbox may not survive kindergarten

10-10-2023 4:00 PM

By BRIAN ADAMS

Brian Adams of Andover, Mass., is a UNH alumnus originally from Londonderry. He was previously a sketch comedy writing instructor and staff writer at ImprovBoston and a founding contributor to satirical online newspaper Recyculus. He is a father to...


Opinion: The NH House needs a climate science intervention

10-10-2023 4:00 PM

By JOHN GAGE

John Gage of Windham is volunteer NH state coordinator for Citizens’ Climate Lobby. The opinions expressed are his own and do not represent the position of CCL. When my daughter and I attended a hearing of the NH House Committee on State-Federal...


Opinion: Understanding the deeper dimension of the U.S. Supreme Court’s corruption crisis

10-10-2023 4:00 PM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. The stories about corruption at the U.S. Supreme Court keep mushrooming. We first heard about Justice Clarence Thomas accepting expensive gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow that Thomas never reported. After Thomas...


Opinion: Democracy does not live or die at the end of a rifle

10-10-2023 4:00 PM

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Rocker in his Concord home: Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. “Democracies don’t have to die at the end of a rifle,” President Biden recently said. “They can die when people are silent,...


Opinion: The effects of social media on youth

10-10-2023 4:00 PM

By SUZANNE GAETJENS-OLESON

Suzanne Gaetjens-Oleson, LCMHC, is CEO of Northern Human Services in Conway. She lives in Lancaster. On June 6, Governor Chris Sununu signed Executive Order 2023-04, which directs the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human...


Opinion: A direct line from the Ku Klux Klan to MAGA

07-24-2023 7:01 AM

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Although this association has rarely been made, the similarities between the 1920s Ku Klux Klan and Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement are marked. Both movements have preached the centrality of...


Opinion: The purpose of public schools

05-08-2023 6:00 AM

By JANET WARD

Janet Ward lives in Contoocook. On April 25, the NH Senate Education Committee heard testimony regarding HB 367 and HB 464. Both bills propose the expansion of funding for Education Freedom Accounts, New Hampshire’s school voucher program. This...


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