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By SAM EVANS-BROWN

Sam Evans-Brown is the chair of Ski The Beav, which works to improve skiing at the Beaver Meadow Municipal Golf Course. Recently, a reader’s Letter to the Editor (“City’s snow devices deemed ironic amid climate crisis, economic strain,” Monitor, 6/10)...

By CRAIG WALKER

Craig Walker served as zoning administrator for the City of Concord for over 13 years during a 32+ year career with the city. He retired in 2021. In the debate about the placement of the next middle school, there are some lingering questions that I...

By ELIOT WESSLER

Eliot Wessler lives in Whitefield and works with a number of grassroots organizations in New Hampshire’s North Country. As Adam Sexton made clear in his WMUR broadcast of June 18, all four of the major declared candidates, from both parties, running...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Probably there is no more famous novel in American literature than Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” So it is an event that there is an audacious new novel, “James” by Percival Everett, that recreates...

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 contemporary society, identifying as “Christian” invites more confusion than clarity. Last year, Pew Research...

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 MIKE MOFFETT

State Representative Mike Moffett (R-Loudon) chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs. He has been a Celtic fan since 1968. A favorite travel terminal is at Boston’s Logan Airport which features numerous championship...

By NARAIN BATRA

Narain Batra taught, for more than three decades, courses on freedom of speech, media law, ethics, and diplomacy at various colleges. He is the author of “The First Freedoms and America’s Culture of Innovation.” He lives in the Upper Valley. Just...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com ‘I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people,” Elizabeth Gurley Flynn once...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. It’s time again to celebrate Pride Month and all the benefits joining the LGBTQ+ community has brought us as parents and grandparents. Our joys have only grown in the past year,...

By A. J. KIERSTEAD

A. J. Kierstead is a resident of Concord and the editor and host of The New England Take. The current collapse of political norms was inevitable. It is apparent the neolib/neocon movement, the lukewarm attempt at “centrism,” has imploded and the...

By DAVE EMERSON

Dave Emerson of Old Ways Traditions lives in Canterbury. It’s no news that the road can get more bumpy as we get older. Life’s often a pretty bumpy road anyway these days. Ignoring the bumps has become more challenging.The beauty of the natural world...

By CHARLES HUCKELBURY

Charles Huckelbury lives in Henniker. It took the jury only three hours to convict Hunter Biden, compared to nineteen hours of deliberation for Donald Trump’s jury. Biden was convicted of three felonies, in contrast to the thirty-four crimes...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. The collective freak out of the Republican Party leadership after the criminal conviction of their cult leader, Donald Trump, was predictable. They appeared to be in a state of disbelief when a New York jury found...

By RALPH JIMENEZ

Ralph Jimenez of Concord served on the Monitor editorial board. Slim envelopes have been arriving in the mail that, if their exterior betrayed their contents, would be ruddy, glowing and emitting sulfurous fumes. They are June property tax bills. The...

By BRINKLEY BROWN

Brinkley Brown of Concord is a Peace Corps Volunteer currently serving as an English teacher in Rwanda. Years ago, my dad wrote a story for the Monitor about Father’s Day. He said that while this day usually means kids honoring their dads, it’s also...

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 Recently, I participated in a discussion about the purpose of possessing guns. Some asserted that the sole purpose of...

By SCOTT DICKMAN

Scott Dickman lives in Concord. In a world saturated with news of conflict and division, we easily become entrenched in the belief that certain disputes are intractable, that certain people are destined to live in perpetual conflict. The...

By BERT COOPER

Bert Cooper lives in Concord. Concord citizens are rightfully upset with the proposal to relocate the middle school to Broken Ground. After years of school board plans showing a new building at the Rundlett site, after years of board delay pursuing a...

By DEB HOWES

Deb Howes is the president of AFT-New Hampshire. A funny thing happened on New Hampshire’s way to threatening to fire teachers for teaching so-called divisive concepts involving gender, race, history and identity. U.S. District Court Judge Paul...