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A huge thank you to Concord’s Capital Center for the Arts for bringing Taj Majal and Keb Mo here for a wonderful concert on June 3. There was delightful music and some songs with a great message. From their newest recording spring the lyrics, “Come on up, there’s room on the porch for everyone.”

Tucked into HB2, the state budget trailer bill, is Section 426, a provision that threatens both our public schools and our state constitution. Section 426 is a “Legislative Declaration of Authority” that challenges decades of New Hampshire Supreme Court rulings, including Claremont I and II, which affirmed that the state — and not local property taxpayers — is responsible for funding an adequate education. These rulings are essential for towns like Newport, Claremont and so many others, where low property values lead to high tax rates and under-resourced schools.

Today, we heard that, after three months, the U.S. government finally obeyed the court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S. Immediately, the Trump administration came up with new allegations of his involvement in human trafficking. Charges that were never mentioned before, and he has not had the opportunity to challenge the allegations in court.

Since Trump’s much-ballyhooed DOGE has been fully revealed as catastrophically inept and ineffective, I offer my services to root out real fraud, waste and abuse of taxpayer money. With absolutely no impact on any citizen or group, we can eliminate $600-700 million of clear, unequivocal waste and abuse in three easy steps.

My relationship to the talented home of Bethlehem began in 1985, when my wife and I purchased a small piece of land, less than two acres. We are about a mile from the NCES landfill, and there have been many discussions between the citizens and taxpayers of Bethlehem over the next forty years. I currently work overseas for a NATO member country’s Department of Defense. Our only home in the USA is in Bethlehem, about a mile from the NCES landfill.

My name is Michelle Lambert, and I live in the small town of Andover. I love our close-knit community — but I’m deeply worried about its future.

My husband and I are parents of two adult children who graduated from the Kearsarge Regional School District. Each of them had different learning styles. Each of them learned to work cooperatively with groups of people other than their friends or like-minded individuals. I cannot think of a more valuable skill needed in today’s world.

“Doctor” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Trump’s hapless Director of the Federal Department of Health and Human Services, recently announced that he would like to ban fluoride in public drinking water and ban fluoride supplements for kids from the market.

As the Legislature considers the state budget, it’s time to focus on real, lasting solutions that strengthen public education across New Hampshire.

Please explain the hypocrisy demonstrated by the Trump administration where immigrants (claimed to be criminals) are deported without due process, while criminals convicted through our judicial system are pardoned?

A bill (HB 452) to deny asylum seekers the right to a driver’s license was passed by the NH House of Representatives. When it arrived in the NH Senate Transportation Committee for a hearing, Chair Ricciardi commented she had never received so many contacts from NH citizens to oppose a bill. It was clear that Senator Ricciardi, Chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, “gets it.” She understands that asylum seekers are here in the US with the permission of our government and are not lawless people invading our country. She recognizes asylum seekers as hard working people, who are supporting their families, and contributing to our communities.

The city manager system was introduced in 1908 to curb party corruption by managing cities like businesses – emphasizing efficiency over public input. But business models aren’t democratic. In practice, this approach stripped voters of their voice while burdening them with the salaries of unelected officials who are not required to listen to the public.

Regarding letter to the Monitor titled “No defense of actions in Gaza” (May 28), if I woke up from a coma after 600 days, I would wonder what Israel was doing in Gaza. The writer omitted a very simple fact – Hamas and the people of Gaza are holding Israeli hostages. One may find this difficult to believe but it is a fact. A very simple but important fact that the writer failed to mention.

It’s disheartening to see some lawmakers express frustration with constituents simply for speaking up. Representative Weyler recently said he’s “tired” of hearing from the public. But isn’t that the job? Our elected officials are public servants – accountable to the people they represent.

I’m calling on lawmakers to pass a state budget that truly supports public education, lifts the burden off local property taxpayers, and stops funneling public dollars into private voucher programs.

When will our Legislature stop ignoring its constituents?

In Gaza, Israel keeps 2.1 million people caged, bombing the entire population continually with huge (2,000 lbs) “bunker-buster” bombs. Gazans have no defense. No anti-aircraft guns, no fighter jets, no missile defense shield. Look around you right now and imagine bombed out buildings, schools, hospitals, roads and water systems, devastation everywhere. Lives reduced to rubble.

Anyone who knows me knows that golf has been a large part of my life. The Clubhouse at Beaver Meadow Golf Course certainly needs replacement, but I have to ask… if I can build a 5000-square-foot, high-end home in Concord for $2 million, why does it cost $6-8 million for a new golf clubhouse? In all of the articles on this issue, I have not seen a good explanation.

In just over two months — from January 20 to March 27, 2025 — rogue judges issued seventeen nationwide injunctions against President Trump’s lawful actions. This level of judicial interference is not only unprecedented, it is extremely dangerous to our constitutional system. Anarchists might be pleased, but both conservative and liberal citizens should be very concerned. For example, federal district judges have blocked executive orders addressing birthright citizenship, immigration reform, federal employment, foreign aid, and military readiness. Executive actions that fall squarely within presidential authority have been frozen nationwide by unelected judges, often before a full hearing on the merits.

When a pregnant woman has a dead or dying entity in her womb, she needs an abortion to remove it to save her from an infection from the dead tissue. One being may be alive and healthy with the other dead in utero. Myriad other conditions could require this remedy to save a woman’s health or life. If a woman were not pregnant and had a festering wound, she would be by law permitted to refuse treatment for it even if it would kill her, so long as she is competent and not under the influence of drugs or other compromising circumstances. If a person is so high on a drug, belligerent,or violent they have become dangerous to anyone else, the police or another person could kill them in self-defense. If a person had a limb excised because of damage to it, he/she would never be required to carry it around on their person until it rotted away. Why are women with dangerous pregnancies refused the only sane remedy? How can any child be born without women who are free to choose to give life? How is rape a crime but forced pregnancy is not? Freedom means being able to say “no” or “yes.”