Search Results

Keyword search: opinion

By TERRY IRWIN

Terry Irwin lives in Exeter. David Emerson’s My Turn, “Crossing the tracks,” describes his and his wife’s trek up Lowe’s Path to Mount Adams on what I believe was one of his final strenuous White Mountain hikes.His piece took me back to my trek to...

By MARIA WILKINSON

Maria Wilkinson lives in Concord. What does the gay GOP look like? While we mostly equate the LGBTQIA+ community to be upheld by Democrats and an issue owned by the left, there exist members of the gay and lesbian community that vote red.Those who are...

By BRIAN ADAMS

Brian Adams of Andover, Mass., is a UNH alumnus originally from Londonderry. He was previously a sketch comedy writing instructor and staff writer at ImprovBoston and a founding contributor to satirical online newspaper Recyculus. He is a father to...

By KARISHMA MANZUR

Karishma Manzur, Ph.D., is a member of the NH Coalition for a Just Peace in the Middle East, which includes NH Veterans for Peace, VT/NH. Jewish Voice for Peace, NH Conf. of United Church of Christ, NH Peace Action, NH Program of the American Friends...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. After the death of George Floyd and the movement it provoked, it looked like there might be a serious national effort to address racial bias in policing. It also looked like there might be a genuine dialogue about...

By GEORGE KELLY

George Kelly is a resident of East Concord, and a retired public school educator/ administrator. Methinks the Concord School Board ought to pile into a van, preferably an unmarked one, and take a drive across the river up “Gully Hill,” past the state...

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 ‘In America, more than perhaps anywhere else in the Western world, petitions to God (prayer) are still a routine...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I had an epiphany watching Kamala Harris’s first campaign rally in Atlanta. It came to me that tribalism can be a good thing, a...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com. Several years ago, as dinner was wrapping up in one of Phillips Exeter Academy’s dining rooms, a student-faculty group that had...

By JOSEPH D. STEINFIELD

Attorney Joseph D. Steinfield lives in Keene and Jaffrey. He can be reached at joe@joesteinfield.com. On May 1, the House of Representatives voted in favor of H.R. 6090, known as the “Antisemitism Awareness Act.” You can’t judge a law by its name,...

By ELLEN READ

Rep. Ellen Read is the prime sponsor of HB 283, represents the towns of Newmarket and Newfields, and sits on the House Special Committee on Housing. It’s that time of year again, across New Hampshire from our vibrant college towns to our workforce...

By DAVID EMERSON

David Emerson, of Old Ways Traditions in Canterbury, is a woodworker. The last years of our serious mountain hiking were on Lowe’s Path up Mount Adams. Lowe’s Path is one of the more strenuous climbs in the White Mountains and Adams is second only to...

By RICHARD BIRCHER

Richard Bircher lives in Lebanon. With a sense of reassurance and respect, I praise Gov. Sununu’s signing of the two bills designed to clarify the biological essence of boys and girls (specifically), in distinction to the confusing and often...

By PAMELA WALSH

Pamela Walsh is President / Member-At-Large, Concord School Board. I didn’t run for school board because I wanted to build a new middle school. Then and now, I wanted to focus on helping students recover from COVID, improving academics, and carefully...

By OGE YOUNG

Oge Young MD, FACOG, lives in Concord. Dr. Nick Perencevich’s My Turn “Why HB 322 is important” provided an informative history of the NH Board of Medicine and emphasized the importance of medical peer review. His dedication to safe health care in...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. After the coup attempt on Jan. 6, 2021, and considering Donald Trump’s refusal to recognize the results of the 2020 election, it is hard not to worry about election schemes Trump might have up his sleeve. Sometimes...

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. I have always been a writer, and not long after I first put pen to paper (yes, I am that...

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 Israel has a list of books banned in the West Bank of the occupied Palestinian territory according to Ursula Lindsey,...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com. ‘I know first-hand that Israel has created an apartheid reality within its borders and through its occupation. The parallels to...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Like deja vu all over again, today’s burning issues are the same as those two generations ago. That much became apparent to me from...