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By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. “If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that,”...

By RUSSELL PERKINS

Russell Perkins of Concord maintains the Sunflower of Ukraine Facebook group and is active with the charity DOBRO. As the Ukrainian war reaches its one year anniversary, most of the world is still in a state of denial and refuses to call this World...

By FRANCES B. LIM-LIBERTY

Frances B. Lim-Liberty, MD, of New London is a pediatric endocrinologist and practices adolescent transgender medicine. I have many trans people in my life. I am cisgender and I provide gender-affirming care. I have had the honor of being part of...

By TERRY CRONIN

Terry Cronin lives in Hopkinton. In January, the live wire of energy market volatility loomed over the House Science, Technology and Energy (S, T & E) Committee hearings on New Hampshire’s electricity markets. The sessions were intended for committee...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. We have reached a point where conspiracy theories have proliferated so much that they have lost the ability to surprise. The entire right-wing ecosphere has been polluted. False information that’s intended to mislead...

By JOHN GFROERER

John Gfroerer lives in Concord. It was the beginning of our second week stay at Chautauqua in Western New York and we needed to make trip into Mayville for a few groceries. After picking my daughter Brinkley up at Girls Club, she and I hopped in the...

By JUDITH KURTZ and MEREDITH COOLEY

Judith Kurtz and Meredith Cooley of Concord are members of Concord Greenspace (CG3). Former State Senator Andy Sanborn (owner of The Draft Sports Bar & Grill & Casino) has plans to build a new 43,000-square-foot casino complex (almost the size of a...

By MILLIE LAFONTAINE

Millie LaFontaine lives in Concord. As we’ve bounced between periods of unseasonably warm and unseasonably frigid weather this winter, the effects of climate change are inescapable, even to those of us who wish to ignore that inconvenient truth. We’d...

By SUSAN WOODS and JENNIFER ROBSON

Susan Woods and Jennifer Robson of Concord are both members of Concord Greenspace. The owners of the abandoned Gulf Gas station across from Concord High School (between Warren and Pleasant Streets) have submitted a request to the Planning Board for a...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Writing my first draft on a computer doesn’t work for me. I lose my mojo. Yet, if I scribble my thoughts in my left-handed scowl on...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. I remember the first time I visited the Parthenon. I was new to Greece and was invited to a late-night dinner in Plaka, an Athenian...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. Awareness about the health, economic, and environmental costs of fossil fuel use aren’t the creation of liberal snowflakes, hippies, or communists, and the push back isn’t new,...

By SUSAN McKEVITT

Susan McKevitt lives in Bradford. On February 3rd, I along with many attended a hearing before the State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs committee of the NH House in support of HCR 7, requesting recognition of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk...

By LAURA MILLIKEN and JESSICA GORHAN

Laura Milliken is executive director and Jessica Gorhan is deputy director for NH Hunger Solutions. Learn more at nhhungersolutions.org. We want to ensure every New Hampshire resident has the nutrition they need to be healthy and well because hunger...

By REAGAN BISSONNETTE

Reagan Bissonnette of Concord is the executive director of Northeast Resource Recovery Association (NRRA). As dangerously cold winds continued to blow across New Hampshire over the weekend, transfer station staff braced for temperatures far below zero...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick volunteered with the World Council of Churches as an ecumenical accompanier in Palestine and Israel in 2010.  He writes from his Vermont Rocker in his Concord home: Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. I have...

By RICH CROCKER

Rich Crocker of Meredith is a retiree, formerly the superintendent of Laconia State School and Training Center and director of the Bureau of Elderly and Adult Services. This year presents a great opportunity for development in New Hampshire’s...

By STEPHANIE RUTT

Rev. Dr. Stephanie Rutt is founding minister of the Tree of Life Interfaith Temple in Amherst. She lives in Nashua. “How do I talk to a little flower? Through it I talk to the Infinite. And what is the Infinite? It is that still small voice that calls...

By ANDRU VOLINSKY

Andru Volinsky of Concord was lead counsel in the Claremont school funding cases and is co-counsel in the pending Rand school funding case. The opinions expressed are his own. Kudos to Tom Schamberg, Dave Luneau and others who are working to solve our...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. One of the more blatant publicity-seeking stunts pulled by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been his effort to kill an advanced placement course in African  American studies. Following DeSantis’s lead, the Florida...