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Thank you, Millie LaFontaine (“Our violent national pastimes,” Monitor, 1/15) for your courageous and competent writing regarding professional football and gun ownership. Supporting “the common good over personal freedom” applies to both, and will not...

Four NH state representatives have proposed a bill that may transform single-family neighborhoods in New Hampshire. HB 44 does not include provisions to require construction of affordable housing. HB 44 also threatens NH green space on existing lots....

Why are Republicans so fearful of their fellow representatives that they feel the need to arm themselves in the NH State House chamber? Our legislature is a deliberative body. It should be a bastion of civil discourse and responsible government, not...

Stop being barbaric, medical professionals. Is there a shortage of lidocaine? Too many people are relating their excruciating painful outpatient experiences to me, because I am a retired nurse of a 50 year career. I was an office nurse for a surgeon...

Only one Congressional Republican attended the service outside our U.S. Capitol to honor those who defended and died defending our democracy. Do I need say more? Kevin Monahan Bow

I’m someone who has felt our defense spending to be outrageously high for many years. The Republicans have on their agenda significant cuts to our defense budget. Ordinarily I would welcome this. Now, however is a time of great peril in the world....

Before Brazil’s former Pres. Bolsonaro ran for reelection in 2022, Trump endorsed him. Atlantic magazine quoted Trump about Bolsonaro saying, “He fights hard for, and loves, the people of Brazil – just like I do for the people of the United States.”...

As a former Concord School Board member and a member of the 2021 charter commission that drafted the current rule that has excluded Ms. West, I have always been an opponent of ward voting for the board. Unlike the city council, school issues are not...

News at year’s end was the typical recap of events, including the employment forecast, featuring Marjorie Taylor Greene’s assertion that immigrants were stealing American jobs. To debunk that claim, one has only to look at the election of Rep. George...

2022 was a complete failure for Americans. Stock prices fell the most since 2008, the cryptocurrency industry is practically bankrupt, inflation soared, home sales declined and the border is wide open. Americans lost trillions of dollars thanks to...

In 1955, William F. Buckley Jr. described conservatives as “the disciples of truth who defend the moral order.” Unfortunately, the GOP is no longer a bastion of truth and moral conservatism, nor is it even a reliable defender of the democratic...

I voted for Kate West to represent me on the Concord School Board. I am a resident of Ward 4 and I met Ms. West before the election. I also knew that her candidacy was supported by people I trust. I am angry that the Concord School Board has taken...

In the recent midterms and in August of this year, six states (CA, MT, KY, MI, VT, KS) had abortion rights on the ballot as referendums. Three of these states, Montana, Kentucky and Kansas are about as blood red as you can get. Yet in each of these...

Did you hear it? At the World Cup final, I mean. Did you hear the entire stadium singing? Not just their national anthems, but also joining in chants that had melody and not just words. I am convinced that our communities need more singing, more...

January 6, 2023, is the second anniversary of the partisan mob’s assault on our nation’s capital. I watched it on TV, and today remember vividly the gallows raised to hang the vice president. The January 6 Committee has investigated the event in great...

In a dismaying time of incredible shrinking newspapers, the Monitor has performed a valuable public service by running some especially well-written and informative stories. I’m referring to articles in the Dec. 31 edition, one by Jamie Costa on the...

Kudos to the Concord Monitor for launching the Environmental Reporting Lab and selecting the solid waste dilemma in the Live Free or Die State for the inaugural topic. And kudos to Sruthi Gopalakrishnan of the Monitor staff for an accurate overview...

Thanks for the recent (Dec. 28) article about Change for Concord leaders advocating for lights at the Keach Park soccer field. As someone who lives in Concord Heights, one of the most vibrant and diverse neighborhoods in Concord, I would urge the city...

To James Trice’s My Turn about Dr. Edward Jenner’s discovery of immunizations, I would like to add the work Louis Pasteur. It was Louis who discovered the miniature world of living organism’s, bacteria, virus and fungi and as the cause of disease. He...

The article “Traction in the Snow” (Monitor, 12/26) regarding Rep. Annie Kuster’s skiing and her father’s role as being one of the cofounders of Wildcat Ski Area shared similarities with Gov. Sununu. The Sununu family purchased Waterville Valley in...