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Immunization registry helps keep N.H. healthy

The immunization registry is a tested and standard tool which provides critical information on vaccinations for use in monitoring immunization programs, guiding public health action, and keeping accurate records. Used by 49 other states and DC, as a Public Health Strategist at the City of ...

Slandering New Hampshire teachers to undermine public education

In recent years, extremists in charge of New Hampshire’s Republican Party, with Gov. Chris Sununu’s blessing, have drastically cut state funding for public education, adopted the most expansive school voucher program in the country, taken steps to double the number of charter schools in the ...

Don’t believe all the budget spin

State (Republican) politicians were falling over each other last week to seize credit for revenue projections for the biennium showing a $283.8 million surplus. That is only a revenue surplus from state taxes and fees not an overall surplus which would include what the state spends. The ...

Housing discrimination laid bare in 1950s and 60s

Anyone paying even fleeting attention to the housing market over the past year or so, especially in the more desirable places to live – such as Greater Nashua – know how quickly homes, and in many cases commercial, properties can disappear from the listings literally hours, sometimes even ...

Big question: Is the food really safe to eat?

One of the most common questions throughout history may just be “Is this food safe to eat?” For millennia, kings, nobles and government officials have employed food tasters to make sure of that. The food taster’s job is to taste the food prepared for their employer before their employer ...

Busted: Confessions of a scofflaw

This may be the final column I write as a free man. No, I am not getting married this week. I have taken an accounting of my life and freely admit I have broken many laws, some of which could land me in the big house. I was inspired to look inward after reading that an 84-year old man in the ...