Opinion
Letter: Hands off our democracy
Concord has been keeping busy this spring with busy bills—like HB-524 (anti-vaccine), HB-115 (anti-education), and HB-148 (anti-trans). These busy bills give lawmakers an open mic for fear-mongering and false narratives about imaginary enemies and you can watch it on YouTube by searching the bill numbers with "NH" as experts are often mocked and ignored.
Letter: People need to act
Every day brings White House news that should shock everyone to action.
Letter: Hands off
Hands off our big, beautiful government! How dare anyone call it bloated and inefficient? Cut waste? Cut fraud? Cut abuse? Cut anything? No way, absolutely not!
Letter: Bonnie Tucker for Peterborough Select Board
I am writing to enthusiastically support Bonnie Tucker for Peterborough town selectman in the May 13 election. Bonnie has shown she cares about our community and knows how to bring people together to solve problems.
Letter: Learn from each other
I have been a teacher at Conval High School for 28 years. Outside of school, I have also run an ethics seminar for the past 15 years. During that time, I have encouraged young people to get involved in community events.
Letter: Democracy is in danger
During World War II, Rabbi Roland B. Gittlsohn delivered a eulogy over the newly dug graves of U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima. His words are preserved at the Harry S. Truman Library. He said, “Here lie men who loved America …, officers and men, Negroes and whites, rich and poor, together … here no man prefers another because of his faith, or despises because of his color…among these men there is no discrimination, no hatred. Theirs is the highest and purest democracy … whomever of us … thinks himself superior to those who happen to be in the minority, makes of this ceremony, and of the bloody sacrifice it commemorates, (a) … hollow mockery.
Letter: Don't fear the Unknown
I am a cisgendered woman writing about HB 148 – the bill that classifies based on “biological sex” in lavatory facilities or locker rooms and in “prisons, houses of correction, juvenile detention or commitment centers, mental health hospitals or treatment centers and like facilities to which persons may be committed involuntarily.” Recently, Judge Reyes spoke on Executive Order 14183 that states “sex shall refer to an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female.” She shared the fact that there are more than 30 variations in genetic gender composition. XX or XY are not the only options, therefore EO 14183 is based on a scientifically proven inaccuracy. The same is true of HB 148.
Letter: Erasing history
I woke up at three o’clock one morning thinking about the Navajo code talkers from World War II and how the Pentagon removed them from its website. And then I thought about Jackie Robinson and women in the military, and how they were excised as well. I wonder, “Did anyone ever think about removing Ted Williams from a government website?”
View From the River: Odette Butler – Getting to know The River Center
As the new executive director of The River Center, I am amazed every day by the awesome crew I am so lucky to work with. This is the first of what I hope will be many opportunities for you to hear directly from our staff and truly understand what The River Center means to them and to this community.
Viewpoint: Joseph Steinfield – An attack on the legal profession is an attack on us all
By JOSEPH D. STEINFIELD
Letter: Unintended consequences
In the recent kerfuffle regarding HB 148, the so-called "bathroom bill," one point was overlooked. HB 148 would legislate that a trans man (someone born biologically female but identifying as a man) could be required to use a bathroom designated as "women's."
Letter: Great roads ‘and Howe’
Now that winter is probably over, I would like to give a well-deserved thanks to Tyler Howe and his hard-working crew at the Hancock Highway Department for keeping our roads open and safe during a particularly stormy winter.
Letter: Save the State Commission on Aging
As former chair of the State Committee on Aging, which worked for years to raise awareness of aging issues in New Hampshire and established the current State Commission on Aging, I was shocked to see the negative actions of the Finance Committee to abolish this educational resource for our New Hampshire older adults.
Viewpoint: Robert Beck – Autocrats abound
‘Poor man wanna be rich
Letter: Kudos to Jonah Wheeler
In reference to the article in the March 27 edition regarding state Rep. Jonah Wheeler, I would like to say it was a true breath of fresh air to read about a Democra using common sense and good judgment and not out burning Teslas.
Letter: Self-determination is at stake
HB 675, currently before the NH state Legislature, caps all school district budgets at 2026 levels, with inflation-based adjustments only.
Letter: The ventrioquist and his dummy
Many today at risk of losing their Social Security benefits will remember the Charlie McCarthy/Edgar Bergen show and relate to its parallel performance in today’s White House. The only problem is distinguishing who is speaking and who is the dummy.
Letter: Medicaid is a lifeline
For more than 30 years, my husband has lived with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Until five years ago, I didn’t know much about Medicaid. That changed when my husband suffered several significant MS exacerbations that led to hospital and rehab stays.
Letter: Defining ‘discomfort’
M. Scott McGovern wrote (“Discomfort is not risk”) that people competing by gender with which they identified until qualifying for national competitions is fine. I disagree. My daughter won Alpine and snowboard races saying she only won by seconds. How will girls who win by seconds do in competitions with those born as male?
Viewpoint: L. Phillips Runyon III – A better angel of ourselves
We're approaching a day that still lives in infamy 160 years later. This April 14 will be eight score years since the disgruntled younger brother of famed Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth decided to make an infamous name for himself by murdering Abraham Lincoln.
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