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Vote Blue

This month’s debate between Gov. Chris Sununu and his opponent, Sen. Tom Sherman, was predictable. The governor paraded out all the usual talking points, catch phrases, and evasions. Sen. Sherman stated facts: our property tax rates and energy bills have ballooned on the GOP’s watch. The ...

Recent afflictions

Gov. Chris Sununu seems to have lost all politically redeeming qualities. It has been reported that he suffers from Republicanfibbitis (a tendency to speak untruths). Others suggest it might be FreeStateophilia (a condition caused by too many close encounters of the Libertarian kind). And, ...

We’ve lost our connection

Everything seems to be connected these days… “smart” phones, computers, satellites, “smart” cars, commercial vehicles, and let’s not forget “smart homes”. We’re so “smart” about our connected gadgets and so disconnected from ourselves, the people, and natural world around ...

Don’t fall for right-wing deceit

Di Lothrop’s response on Oct. 16, 2022, to many letters to the editor, including mine, was sad as she hopelessly flailed away swinging wildly and completely missing, like a little league batter at the plate against a major league pitcher. She doubled down on the lie that Biden is responsible ...

That’s not them anymore

There are many reasonable people who are reasonably good and reasonably well mannered and who have grown used to being called Democrats, have grown comfortable with the brand, with the sense of identity it had as a kind, caring group of people looking out for the well being of the everyman, of ...

It’s about the economy

During Bill Clinton’s first run for president in 1991, the overriding campaign concern during the 1991 Presidential campaign was an economic recession and the decreased emphasis on foreign policy in a post-Cold War political climate. The slogan coined by James Carville, a strategist for ...