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Sununu swings left, makes right

Give New Hampshire Executive Councilor Chris Sununu credit for doing the right thing when he reversed his position last week and voted to approve a $638,000 state contract that included money for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. The measure passed 3-2 - Sununu voted with the ...

Time we declared war on this illness

Pat Summitt, the legendary coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols who died Tuesday, made it clear when she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's that there wasn't going to be any "pity party." Summitt, who won more games than any coach, male or female, in Division I college ...

Relevant as when they were written

They are, perhaps, the most famous series of newspaper articles ever published, though their authors went unidentified for years. Today they are called "The Federalist Papers," and they were published between October 1787 and August 1788, more than a decade after the signing ...

Looking back at the week in news

Decision to switch Turkey Day game unfortunate It's too bad the Nashua School District administration chose to move the Thanksgiving Day football game between Nashua High School North and South to the day before Thanksgiving. Too bad, but understandable. Superintendent Mark Conrad said the ...

The Year Without a Summer: Time to mind our transgressions?

We have reached that time of the year when some among us will grumble about the heat and humidity, but this year, out of respect for what our forebears suffered through 200 years ago, we ought not be quite so quick to do so. The year was 1816, known in meteorological circles as “The ...

Is United Kingdom the first domino?

On Friday, as the dust was just beginning to settle across a Europe that would be dramatically changed by the United Kingdom's vote to leave the 28-member European Union, some began to push for still more disintegration. In Holland, Geert Wilders, a right-wing leader, tweeted: ...