Opinion
Opinion: Adopting the right 306 Rules
By LAURA VINCENT
Laura Vincent lives in Loudon. The debate over the adoption of updated 306 rules (minimum standards for public education) rages on. After multiple hearings for public comment, Commissioner Edelblut and the State Board of Education still appear to not...
Letter: Must be MAGA
Remember when Trump said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters, okay?” He was talking about Chris Sununu. Jack Shields Penacook
Letter: It doesn’t have to be this way
Every spring nearly all of us grow frustrated with increases in our property taxes. In some communities the seeming “culprit” is a major capital expense but most often it’s the cost of our schools that causes people to say they can’t afford the...
Letter: Israel draws U.S. into another Middle East war
The West is “outraged” at Iran’s recent drone attack, but it was provoked! Let’s remember Israel first bombed the Iranian embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, killing at least seven. This assassination was in clear violation of international law (to...
Letter: Removing critical tools for election security
A bill before the state senate’s Election Law and Municipal Affairs Committee, HB 1569, would remove voters’ access to a critical tool for validating their ability to vote when registering or re-registering to vote in New Hampshire. Currently if...
Letter: A champion for women’s rights
Women of my generation, who fought to have our rights expanded in the last decades of the twentieth century, never imagined that those rights would be ripped away by politicians and judges put in place by a minority of our country’s citizens. The...
Letter: EV charger locations
The ski area executives who were whining about the lack of EV chargers in NH in the April 13 Monitor should look in the mirror. The current system of buying fuel will have to change with electrification, nobody wants to hang around a convenience store...
Letter: Trump is responsible for the attack on reproductive rights
Former President Trump is trying to alleviate his direct responsibility for the attacks on reproductive rights caused by the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Mitch McConnell paved the way by flouting decades of precedent when he...
Letter: Response to joint city/ school meeting
What a novel idea, a meeting of school and city leaders. The only thing novel is the inclusion of representatives from Merrimack Valley schools! For years the school district had a committee called the Joint-City School Committee. It met once a month....
Opinion: A lesson in shapeshifting & the 306 revisions
By JANET WARD
Janet Ward lives in Hopkinton. On April 11, at the State Board of Education’s second public hearing on Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut’s revisions of the 306 Rules which govern public schools, Board Chair Drew Cline gave all those present an...
Letter: Police station in Concord
The ten years I spent on the City Council were very educational and challenging. Most things surrounding the Green Street Puzzle Palace that were true then and are true now in that there is not the slightest modicum of common sense when it comes to...
Letter: Was that you, governor?
Suspicions that the man who appeared to be Governor Sununu in an interview with George Stephanopolous recently was actually Lindsay Graham in a rubber mask are ridiculous, of course. The truth is much more pedestrian: Sununu needs a job, so he’s...
Letter: ‘This is about politics’
Is it difficult to fathom the cowardly words and actions of our current New Hampshire governor. He has once more shown us, and the rest of the world, the true nature of his character. On ABC’s This Week, which aired on 4/14, George Stephanopoulos...
Letter: Why is Trump so friendly to Putin?
Donald Trump was negotiating to build a skyscraper in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign. Vladimir Putin guarded that secret while his agents penetrated Hillary Clinton’s computer, leaked her files and triggered a criminal investigation of...
Letter: Finding balance
Chloe Rattee recently wrote a story on Averill’s Martial Arts Academy. In this story is mention of how “Paul Averill was inspired to study Martial Arts after watching the 1970’s TV show Kung Fu with actor David Carradine.” A similar experience...
Letter: The hypocrite oath
Watching Gov. Sununu on ABC with George Stephanopoulos was akin to watching a dog trying to catch its’ tail, or placing your head on the end of a ball bat, round and round you go and everybody getting dizzy from the silliness of the whole thing....
Opinion: Being and becoming: A good doctor in the age of artificial intelligence
By NARAIN BATRA
Narain Batra, under the auspices of the Osher Institute at Dartmouth, will deliver a public lecture, “Superintelligence: Why We Need It” on May 24. He lives in Hartford, Vermont. A few years ago, I was on a return flight from New Delhi to Paris and...
Letter: Conway Branch Railroad Line deserves an honest look
New England’s railroads have been changing in the last few years. CSX has taken over Pan Am Railways, the St. Lawrence and Atlantic is wrapping up an infrastructure upgrade, the Conway Scenic Railroad will begin bussing cruise passengers to the White...
Letter: America votes
It appears that the two presidential candidates in the upcoming election will be Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Donald Trump is a fascist and Joe Biden has proven himself to be a pathological war criminal. My evidence for saying this about Joe is the...
Opinion: Response to ‘FAFSA fiasco’
As a former substitute teacher at Hopkinton High, I fully sympathize with the misery Tyler Czarkowski and his family are going through as they apply for financial aid. I observed it there and at other schools at which I worked. It was never much fun,...
