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By NICOLE CLEGG

Nicole Clegg is the interim CEO of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and Planned Parenthood New Hampshire Action Fund. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE) is facing a financial crisis unlike any we have experienced in our...

By TIM ROBSON

Tim Robson lives in Concord. We were reminded again by Labor Day’s motorcycle crash on Loudon Road that the thoroughfare is extremely unsafe for vehicles and pedestrians. There have been two crash-related fatalities in the last 12 months and over...

By LINDA O’ROURKE

Linda O’Rourke lives in Bow. The location of the new Concord middle school has been a hot topic as of late. I have been teaching at Rundlett Middle School for 26 years and am presently a member of the district’s Building Committee. While I can...

By NED HELMS

Ned Helms of Concord is former Commissioner of HHS and founding director of the Institute for Health Policy at UNH. As someone with over three decades of experience in healthcare, I’ve witnessed significant changes in our industry. We’ve made...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com. ‘Hi, Daddy.” WhatsApp phone calls from my daughter are always welcome, but one I remember well, from January 2011, has been...

By JULIE STONE

Julie Stone, Vice President of Strategy for Granite VNA in Concord, Laconia & Wolfeboro. Our healthcare system is strained. While this is not breaking news, the impact that it continues to have on patient care is critical. At a time when hospital...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Most political coverage of the presidential election has treated the contest as a horse race between two conventional candidates. I would suggest that framing doesn’t do justice to the Harris-Trump match-up. We are...

By PARKER POTTER

Parker Potter is a former archaeologist and historian, and a retired lawyer. He is currently a semi-professional dog walker who lives and works in Contoocook. In my last My Turn, with Bob Seger’s Night Moves spinning around on the turntable in my head...

By ANDREA LAMOREAUX

Andrea LaMoreaux is president & policy advocate for NH LAKES, a statewide 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to restoring the health of New Hampshire’s lakes. New Hampshire has been home to some of the most pristine lakes in the country...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com Remember the response we were taught as children, “sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt...

By JEANELLE ANGUS

Jeanelle Angus of Concord is a second-year law student at UNH Franklin Pierce Law School. Imagine walking into a grand, historic courtroom, your heart racing with excitement and trepidation. You’re one of only three Black students in a sea of 143 —...

By ADAM CZARKOWSKI

Adam Czarkowski works in the technology sector and lives in Penacook. The commuter rail expansion project is a lot like Michael Myers in the Halloween franchise. Just when you think it is dead it pops back up again. This time it is governor candidate...

By NARAIN BATRA

Narain Batra is the author of “The First Freedoms and America’s Culture of Innovation.” He lives in the Upper Valley. Early September when the families of freshmen, the Dartmouth class of 2028, more than 1,200 young fresh faces, landed in Hanover to...

By JAMES FIESEHER

James Fieseher MD (retired) lives in Dover. September starts the open enrollment period for seniors choosing a healthcare plan, either traditional Medicare (TM) or any one of a number of commercial “Medicare Advantage” plans (MA). Picking the one...

By MIKE MOFFETT

State Representative Mike Moffett (R-Loudon) is a retired professor who chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs. Over three years ago our New Hampshire Education Commissioner stopped me at the State House, just...

By RICHARD E. JOHNSON

Richard E. Johnson, MD, lives in Dunbarton. We are once again in the political arena, using preborn humans to generate votes for a particular political agenda. We do this because we have devalued those lives to the point of barter without much thought...

By JOHN LITVAITIS

John Litvaitis lives in Madbury. Once again, New Hampshire’s Fish and Game Department is facing a budget shortfall. For more than a decade, this vital organization, staffed by a cadre of skilled and dedicated professionals, has been hampered by...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. When it is election season, political parties typically pose to be seen as a friend to the working class. Nowhere is that more true than in the case of the Republican Party. No matter how anti-labor the party...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. This is a photograph I took of a bitter dock, a common weed in New Hampshire. This one stands as a sentinel at the foot of my driveway....

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com. Last week was a great week, for you and me, for free speech and the press. As the home page of the law firm of Rath, Young and...