Letter: June 4 deadline to confirm party affiliation

Did you switch back to undeclared (i.e. “independent”) at the January presidential primary? Are up sure? Voters who are registered as undeclared may choose which party’s ballot they want to vote at a primary. The voter legally becomes registered as a...

Opinion: Invest in child care for NH families

By LEANNA LORDEN

Leanna Lorden is Chief Operating Officer at White Birch Center. At the White Birch Center, we experience the child care crisis every day. The bright red banner on top of our website reads: “No open enrollment opportunities until Fall 2025 for infant,...

Opinion: The slippery slope that should scare us? The trend of legislatures getting involved in personal medical decisions.

By CAPPY and MARK NUNLIST

Cappy and Mark Nunlist live in Lebanon. HB 1283, the Medical Aid in Dying Bill (MAiD), has passed the NH House by a slim margin and is now before the Senate. The three primary objections to the bill are one, the bill will morph into a mandate to...

Letter: Physician-assisted suicide puts too many at risk

A Monitor My Turn concluded that HB 1283 would not impact overall NH suicide rates based on data from Oregon. In 1998, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS) for people with terminal illnesses. While the overall...

Opinion: Protecting NH from PFAS

By CHRIS SERRAO and GHENA KUBBA

Chris Serrao and Ghena Kubba are students at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter. “There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous...

Opinion: Thank goodness for New Hampshire teachers

By DEB HOWES and MEGAN TUTTLE

Deb Howes lives in Hudson and is the president of AFT-NH. Megan Tuttle lives in Concord and is the president of NEA-New Hampshire. Every student, no matter the color of their skin or the zip code they live in, deserves educators who are caring,...

Letter: Colby-Sawyer commencement

Ann Fournier, faculty member honored to address graduating students, insisted that she was entirely an “ordinary” person. For example, she did not give formal prepared lectures, she continued with a litany of her “ordinary” habits. I was afraid that...

Opinion: NH should support SB 553

By STEVE DUPREY

Steve Duprey is the owner and president of The Duprey Companies. As a New Hampshire native of many generations, I know a large reason this is such an exceptional place to live, work, own a business and raise a family is the way our institutions and...

Opinion: Let’s not go back

By GAIL DIMAGGIO

Gail DiMaggio lives in Concord. A friend challenged me to write about reproductive rights because, she said, “You’re old enough to remember.” She had a point. The young, of course, never experienced what women faced before Roe. And for a lot of...

Letter: Facts matter

Michael Moffett’s attack on educators and journalists in his review of an article about Hannah Duston is a display of his vast ignorance of history and facts, disguised as scholarly musing. Hannah Duston was born in a colony of Great Britain, making...

Letter: Our November vote

Our November voteBack in my high school teaching days we put together a trial of Gen. Benedict Arnold. Was he a traitor or hero? (We had super community resources. The judge was an attorney who practiced before the Supreme Court, while the defense and...

Letter: Baseball back then

I have always loved baseball and growing up in the NY Metropolitan Area in the 1950s and early 60s had the opportunity to attend ball games at Ebbets Field, The Polo Grounds and The House That Ruth Built prior to 1957. I witnessed the great ones;...

Opinion: The inspiring life of Howard Zinn

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. It has now been 14 years since Howard Zinn died. A historian, Zinn is mostly remembered for writing “A People’s History of the United States,” a controversial recounting of the American story. Zinn focused on the...

Opinion: Seeking wisdom in literature

By GIB WEST

Gib West lives in Concord. Many pieces of great literature explore the themes of power and hubris, and thus can be revisited to examine how we, as members of a community, can question ourselves or our leaders and in so doing seek a just path.It is...

Letter: Life with dignity

I am disappointed that people have to fight another tough fight to end life with dignity when suffering so much already. I will share my experience to explain. I have been diagnosed with gbm glioblastoma terminal brain cancer for 8 years now. I have...

Letter: Response to ‘Spared suffering’

I’m Samuel Safford from Pelham, and I want to share my story in response to the recent talk about the End of Life Options Act, HB 1283. At age 4, I was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic defect deemed fatal with no cure....

Letter: Observations on ‘Campus chaos’

As a former (30 years) resident of New Hampshire, I would like to comment on Vikram Mansharamani’s recent My Turn. The first half of the piece outlines the current state of affairs on college campuses. The more important part of the piece lies in the...

Letter: Why Israel?

Gary Seidner wonders why students protesting Israel’s destruction of Gaza aren’t protesting the war in Syria, claiming its “blatant antisemitism.” There is a very simple explanation, and its not antisemitism. Our government is sending bombs and...

Letter: The Attorney General disappoints again

I was deeply disappointed to learn that New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella signed onto a lawsuit with 20 other states to challenge an ATF rule change requiring more firearm sellers to perform background checks. It is simply fact that the...

Opinion: It all started at Columbia

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I need to vent about the college protests. I am beside myself, appalled at my country’s unconditional military support of Israel’s...