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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...
By JEAN STIMMELL
Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I wrote last week about why our national economy can’t endlessly grow, and neither can individuals. That has viscerally hit home for me...
By JULIAN JEFFERSON
Julian Jefferson of Manchester is a criminal law professor and former Public Defender. He also served on the LEACT commission. The opinions expressed here are his own. We are not done here in New Hampshire with the conversation on police reform.The...
By MARY WILKE
Mary Wilke of Concord is a retired public school teacher. In its first 18 months of operation, New Hampshire’s school voucher program has spent $22.8 million, which is $19.4 million more than was budgeted. To date, there has been no independent...
By LESLIE LUDTKE
Leslie Ludtke of Concord has served as the Public Counsel on several major state permitting projects, including Hydro Quebec and Portland Natural Gas Transmission System. There’s no question that the town of Bow needs better cell phone service. The...
By ROBERT AZZI
Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. On Thursday, after having two cups of cardamom-flavored coffee and finishing Wordle (3/6), my column deadline approached and I...
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 Contoocook. With the end of another football season close at hand, this is as good a time as any to...
By GEORGE HAMBLEN
George Hamblen of Plaistow is an information technology executive with extensive financial services experience implementing federal mandates, including Dodd-Frank. He has over 30 years of information technology experience. At the end of last year,...
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