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By ELLA SCHWOTZER

Ella Schwotzer lives in Londonderry. New Hampshire has a problem. It was hidden for many years, but is now rising to the surface and our local, state, and federal leaders remain unaware or unprepared. The great Granite State is seeing a rise in hate...

By JAY COUTURE

Jay Couture is president and CEO of Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth. She lives in Rye. New Hampshire’s community mental health centers are requesting that policymakers and budget writers increase Medicaid reimbursement rates in a...

By TIM SWEENEY-FANELLI, KATE WEST and JESS CAMPBELL

Tim Sweeney-Fanelli, Kate West and Jess Campbell are Concord residents and parents of Christa McAuliffe School students. They are the group administrators for the ‘Support for Mr. Allard’ Facebook group. We represent a group of hundreds of parents and...

By PAUL W. POULIOT and DENISE K. POULIOT

Paul W. Pouliot, Sag8mo, and Denise K. Pouliot, Sag8moskwa, are leaders of the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook - Abenaki People. As leaders of the Cowasuck Band and the Indigenous NH Collaborative Collective, we urge New Hampshire lawmakers to defend...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. James Speth, the former dean of Environmental Studies at Yale, made this confession. He had previously considered the greatest...

By JOHN L. CAMPBELL

John L. Campbell is the Class of 1925 Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Dartmouth College.  His most recent book is “Institutions Under Siege: Donald Trump’s Attack on the Deep State.” Anti-abortion activists marched in Washington D.C. last month. In...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. We have all heard the expression “living history.” When I was in college, I had several professors who could make learning come alive but as an adult, it seems rare to have that “on fire” type experience. So I feel...

By MILLIE LaFONTAINE

Millie LaFontaine lives in Concord. I missed the statewide bird count the weekend of February 11th and 12th. Thanks to David Brooks’ article in the Monitor this past weekend (“Dust off those binoculars”), I was excited to participate in the Cornell...

By OGE YOUNG

Oge Young, MD, is past president of NHMS and member of the general council representing New Hampshire obstetricians for 20 years. Last week the NH House Judiciary Committee listened to testimony regarding HB 224 which would repeal the criminal and...

By ELIOT WESSLER

Eliot Wessler lives in Whitefield and works with a number of grassroots organizations in NH's North Country. Congratulations to the Concord Monitor for the recent article documenting the lax oversight of New Hampshire’s landfills. The article shines a...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Rocker in his Concord home: Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. When I was a child I would frequently protest to my parents, “It’s not fair.” The answer I received each time was the same,...

By THOM BLOOMQUIST

Thom Bloomquist of Concord is a nurse anesthetist, pain management specialist, and board-certified hypnotist/instructor.  Fentanyl has received a lot of bad press recently. It is a potent synthetic narcotic that’s 100 times more potent than morphine....

By NICHOLAS OURUSOFF

Nicholas Ourusoff lives in New London. “American officials said that the surveillance device was shot down off the coast of the Carolinas after it spent the last week traversing the country. Chinese officials maintained that it was a weather balloon...

By JIM CULHANE

Jim Culhane of Henniker is the president & CEO of Lake Sunapee Region VNA & Hospice. The healthcare system, as we know it, is moving toward collapse. I know this sounds shocking, but to people in the industry, and to many people who have accessed...

By RICH DiPENTIMA

Rich DiPentima of Portsmouth has served as Chief of Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Assistant Director of Public Health for the NH Division of Public Health Services (NHDPHS), Deputy Public Health Director for the Manchester Health Department...

By REBECCA WOITKOWSKI and LINDSAY HANSON

Rebecca Woitkowski is the Kids Count Policy Director at New Futures. Lindsay Hanson is the Senior Director of State & National Campaigns at Save the Children Action Network. Ask almost any parent in New Hampshire with young children, and they will...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. I was moved by the quote from Dr. Martin Luther King in Michael L. Fischler’s My Turn in last month’s Monitor. It started with, “I am convinced that men hate each other because...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Domestic violence often disappears from the headlines. Usually, only stories like an intimate partner homicide or another mass shooting break through public inattention.Court decisions about domestic violence mostly...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Rocker in his Concord home: Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. Since 1935, more than two-thirds of small and midsized farms in the United States have been swallowed up by huge mechanized...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. New Hampshire has done it again: increasing our gambling addiction rather than passing a broad-based tax.New Hampshire has a checkered...