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We have the chance to choose

Recently we heard an interesting take on living in a small, rural town. It was brought up at Lyndeborough Town Meeting by a man who was the only person to vote “No” on a series of warrant articles seeking funding for several of the town’s capital reserve funds, something that the town has ...

Electoral College grumblings

We were somewhat surprised to see a fellow New Hampshire newspaper publish such a scathing indictment of the process that has been used to elect presidents since George Washington: the Electoral College. This is especially true because if the Electoral College were no longer used to elect ...

License issue is a challenge

Is New Hampshire – with its Democratic-dominated House and Senate, as well as an all-Democratic federal delegation – now a more liberal state than Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and even New York? That is obviously a subjective question. However, the New Hampshire House of ...

Keep rates reasonable

Utility provider Eversource Energy earned more than $1 billion in 2018, including $231 million during the last three months of the year, alone. According to the company’s 2018 earnings report, Eversource serves nearly 4 million electricity, natural gas and water customers in Connecticut, ...

A political vendetta?

At long last, special counsel Robert Mueller’s report may be ready for prime time. Attorney General William Barr has been perusing it and, at some point, the document will go to Congress. No doubt it will be leaked to the public within minutes. But Mueller has made it clear his team of ...

Snuff out the terrorists

The Islamic State terrorist group is finished, at least in Syria, President Donald Trump and some in the U.S. military are proclaiming. Well, good riddance. Unfortunately, however, the mission of civilized human beings the world over is far from accomplished. Trump this week displayed a map ...