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By RALPH JIMENEZ

Ralph Jimenez of Concord served on the Monitor editorial board. Last summer, as I watched first a young grifter then an old mountebank take the stage at the University of Georgia in Atlanta to hold what was billed as a political campaign rally, I...

By RALPH JIMENEZ

Ralph Jimenez served on the Monitor’s editorial board and lives in Concord. On Sept. 29, 1961, by a vote of 1,101 to 61, Concord residents became the first school district in the state to have a charter of its own and fiscal autonomy. Earlier that...

By RALPH JIMENEZ

Ralph Jimenez of Concord served on the Monitor editorial board. Slim envelopes have been arriving in the mail that, if their exterior betrayed their contents, would be ruddy, glowing and emitting sulfurous fumes. They are June property tax bills. The...

By RALPH JIMENEZ

Concord Reads, the one city-one book, community-building program launched in 2002, has awakened from its pandemic hibernation, shaken off sleep, and leapt into 2024 with its choice of Unlikely Animals, by Massachusetts writer Annie Hartnett.The novel...

By RALPH JIMENEZ

We are new to snow-birding. Truth be told, we’d always felt righteously superior to those who fled New Hampshire in winter. But then age and injury meant no more snowboarding and no snow meant no more cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, so why not?...