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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...
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...
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