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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. I retired about five years ago, at the tender age of sixty-two. Because I had read plenty of...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. When I started this essay, the hitman who assassinated Brian Thompson was still running free, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare,...

By NARAIN BATRA

Narain Batra publishes the newsletter “Freedom Public Square” and hosts the podcast “America Unbound.” He lives in the Upper Valley. In his latest book “On Freedom,” Yale historian Timothy Snyder provocatively asserts that “some Americans want to be...

By MILLIE LAFONTAINE

Millie LaFontaine lives in Concord. I have had the privilege of visiting the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, not just once, but several times over the course of my lifetime. Standing in the nave each time, I have felt and understood true awe. The...

By LOUREY SAVICK

Rev. Lourey Savick is pastor of Wesley United Methodist Church in Concord. As a Christian called to public leadership and accountability, I pray about when and how to address local matters from the perspective of my faith. Reading about the...

By CELESTE CLARK

Celeste Clark is the executive director, Raymond Coalition For Youth. Many people are talking about the president pardoning his son. In the field of substance misuse prevention, we call this an opportunity to raise awareness that substance misuse...

By ANDREW CASSEL

Andrew Cassel is the director of communications and science engagement, Hubbard Brook Research Foundation. Here at the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation we’re steadfast Concord Monitor readers, and look forward to the Granite Geek’s take on things...

By DEVON CHAFFEE

Devon Chaffee is the executive director of the ACLU of New Hampshire. Alongside a new year, 2025 will usher in a new Trump administration, a time that will represent a clear and present danger to our country’s democratic processes and institutions...

By NATHAN R. SHRADER

Dr. Nathan R. Shrader serves as Associate Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Center for Civic Engagement at New England College in Henniker. He can be reached at nshrader@nec.edu. President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter...

By NICK PERENCEVICH

Nick Perencevich is a semi-retired physician living in Concord. I’ve gotten into a habit of traveling by the John Gilbert Winant statue on Park Street, just to the left of the State Library walk up, and saying hello to the former governor. When it...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. From the first moment you enter the federal government, you learn about the obligation to protect federal documents. All federal employees must complete record management training which includes mandatory annual...

By WILLIAM MURPHY

William Murphy is director, Advocacy & Public Policy, Epilepsy Foundation New England. As New Hampshire families plan for the holidays, many are making careful calculations – not about gifts or celebrations but how to afford their prescription...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. A transactional ethos has overtaken our land. We can see its most extreme form in Donald Trump. We also see it blatantly showcased, not...

By JOSH PARKER

Josh Parker is an operations project coordinator in Milford. It’s no secret that healthcare costs have skyrocketed in recent years. According to some estimates, Americans now owe at least $220 billion in medical debt. And yet, rates of chronic disease...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. Thanksgiving weekend we traveled to Portland, Maine to visit our daughter, son-in-law, and our two grandchildren. We drove over hills and through woods passing by...

By AMY VIRGINIA EVANS and MONICA CIOLFI

Amy Virginia Evans is an author whose latest novel, “Debriefing Darly,” explores the impact of the Women’s Movement. Monica Ciolfi is a lawyer and reproductive rights activist. Both women live in Concord. Voters have decided against electing...

By RICHARD MINARD

Richard Minard of Bow is the executive director of Building Community in New Hampshire, whose mission is to help refugees and other immigrants navigate their way to safe, healthy, productive, prosperous, and connected lives. Scores of New Hampshire...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. I expect that for the next one hundred years historians of all stripes will be analyzing and debating our last presidential election. It was pivotal and it marks a turning point where a plurality of voters decided...

By RICHARD BIRCHER

Richard Bircher lives in Lebanon. The notion of a politician advocating policies that are of primary concern to ordinary people is certainly a just representation of democratic ideals and responsibility. In contrast to the media’s often dogmatic...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I was born in the 1940s and grew up in the 1950s. The ‘50s was a strange chapter in American life: banal, antiseptic, and...

By JACK SAVAGE

Jack Savage is president, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. New Hampshire and Vermont are home to two great environmental success stories: the White Mountain and Green Mountain National Forests. Together they comprise some 1.2...