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By JULES GOOD and CHRISTINE FAJARDO

Jules Good is a selectperson in Somersworth. Christine Fajardo is an alderwoman in Manchester. Safe and secure elections are a cornerstone of the New Hampshire ethos, and we have a long tradition of local, community-centered election workers and...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. “Palestinian activists have long supported the Black people’s struggle against racism,” Angela Davis, Black American academic and...

By CARRY SPIER

Carry Spier, Nashua Ward 3, is a NH state representative. Recently, the NH House voted down HB 44. It was claimed during session that this bill would help reduce the 20,000-home shortage we have in the state. As a representative of Nashua Ward 3, I...

By OGE YOUNG

Oge Young, MD is a retired Concord Ob/Gyn. One month ago in the New York Times Sunday Magazine (2/5), author Susan Dominus, wrote a piece titled “We Have Been Misled About Menopause.” Her article dispels the myths of menopause, including the dangers...

By GERRI KING

Gerri King, PhD, is a social psychologist and organizational consultant who lives in Concord. “You just yelled at that person!” “Yes, because that person yelled at me!” “Did you like it?”It’s not uncommon to: honk at those who honk; respond loudly...

By ANN PODLIPNY

Ann Podlipny of Chester is a member of the NH Network’s Plastics Working Group. The forecast, sung by the legendary Bob Dylan, is simple: “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” What does it predict for New Hampshire?Eric Orff,...

By HANAN BEDRI and MARIE RAMAS

Hanan Bedri, MS, MA, is the executive director of New Hampshire Public Health Association. Marie Ramas, MD, is a NH Medical Society council member and president of the NH Academy of Family Physicians. State legislators will soon vote on HB 557, which...

By MICHAEL L. FISCHLER

Michael L. Fischler of Holderness is professor emeritus of Counselor Education and School Psychology at Plymouth State University. He founded the university’s counseling center and taught courses on comparative culture and diversity for 50 years....

By KEITH KUENNING

Keith Kuenning of Bow is advocacy director at Waypoint and a member of the Juvenile Reform Policy Group. In 2021, the NH Legislature enacted a requirement in the state operating budget that the Sununu Youth Services Center (SYSC) close in March 2023....

By CONNER DRIGOTAS

Conner Drigotas of Winchester is the managing editor at insideinvestigator.org and a Capitalist advocate for peace. Last week my family sat down to watch NBC Boston’s new documentary “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of New Hampshire,” a look at the...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Before going south on a civil rights trip organized by the Nation Magazine, I had never been to Little Rock, Arkansas. I was only vaguely familiar with the struggle to integrate schools there in the 1950s. There was...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Artificial intelligence, in the form of large-scale language models like ChatGPT, is causing some to say the sky is falling. My biggest...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Rocker in his Concord home: Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. Three signs of the times with a common theme have caught my attention this past week. Scores of newspapers, including the...

By RICHARD BIRCHER

Richard Bircher lives in Lebanon. Frequently, local columnists contributing to our regional publications refer to articles written by the New York Times (NYT). Clearly, the intent is not merely to reference a well-known news source that’s perceived as...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. “In Los Angeles, [migrant] children stitch “Made in America” tags into J. Crew shirts,” the New York Timesreports. “They bake dinner...

By BRINKLEY BROWN

Brinkley Brown of Concord is a Peace Corps Volunteer currently serving as an English teacher in Rwanda. It was about this time two years ago when I applied to the Peace Corps. I had just begun my final semester of college and, as it happens when...

By SCOTT LOUNSBURY

Scott Lounsbury lives in Wolfeboro. I know that many of our representatives have New Hampshire youth in their hearts and minds when they promote HB 514, but I have to register my fear for New Hampshire’s adolescents, should this bill pass.I wish you...

By PARKER POTTER

Parker Potter is a former archaeologist and historian, and a retired lawyer. He is currently a semi-professional dogwalker who lives and works in ContoocookOn my daily walk, when I see a soft hazy sun, it always reminds me of an etching by Betty...

By LAURA MAGZIS

Laura Magzis lives in Penacook. I have been concerned about climate change since the late 1980s when I first read about it in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. This was a year or two before I moved to New Hampshire, where I hoped to resume the winter...

By JOSEPH D. STEINFIELD

Attorney Joseph D. Steinfield lives in Keene and Jaffrey. He can be reached at joe@joesteinfield.com. In 1964, the Supreme Court decided New York Times v. Sullivan. Before that decision, American defamation law, meaning libel and slander, followed the...