Recently, America lost one of the greatest political minds of a generation. Mark Shields, perhaps best known as a fierce, liberal commentator on the PBS News Hour for over 30 years recently passed away in his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. To me, Mark was more than a brilliant political ...
When I was re-elected as mayor of Nashua in 2015, I could have never imagined the roller coaster of events that have since unfolded in our nation. We’ve lived through two intense presidential elections, unrest and transformations in our communities, and a global pandemic. As a public servant ...
Way back in the Stone Age (that would be circa 1974 into 1975), a car commercial touted their brand being as American as baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie. Baseball is often referred to as the American sport, there is probably nothing more “homey” than mom’s apple pie sitting on the ...
Lady Baba instructed me to pick up some pork rinds at Shaw’s. Since I always do what I’m told, I marched over to Royal Ridge Plaza and bought a bag. This was January. Upon arriving home, I noticed the sell-by-date was the previous July. I slapped on my fake mustache and Groucho glasses ...
NASHUA – People began filing into the Nashua Unitarian Church for the Faith Forum on Immigration a little before 7 p.m. on June 29. Black, brown, white, young, old, and in between, mostly masked, about 80 people spread out in the sanctuary’s wooden pews. A few dozen more joined on Zoom. ...
I’d like to say “for most of us, ... “ but without a spreadsheet in front of me I won’t chance it. I’ll say this, though: After surviving a scrum of humanity that stealthily formed around me last Saturday with the unpredictability of a late-afternoon coastal thunderstorm, it’s ...
