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Cyber threats are a bipartisan issue

Cyber security is a critical issue demanding a bipartisan approach, Republicans and Democrats alike agree. Or at least, they say they do. But now, in relation to one of the biggest cyber security threats in the world, the issue has become politicized. That needs to end. At issue is whether ...

Looking back at the week in news

AP's Jim Cole was a New Hampshire primary legend For more than three decades, Associated Press photographer Jim Cole has been more of a New Hampshire primary institution than the ballot box at Dixville Notch. Cole was one of the 25 staff members laid off by the AP last week following a ...

Contempt is not a necessary skill

Donald Trump's selection of Rick Perry to pilot the U.S. Department of Energy is a head-scratcher less because the former Texas governor once called the future president a "toxic mix of demagoguery and mean-spiritedness and nonsense," but because of something he infamously ...

Fixing the VA’s broken system

The body of a military veteran was left in a Veterans Affairs health care facility shower room for more than nine hours before someone finally had it moved to a morgue, the Tampa Bay Times in Florida reported last week. Then, once their negligence came to light, some staff at the Bay Pines VA ...

Before tweeting, we had legends

Anyone can have a bad day at the office, but few will outdo Ralph Branca. His workday of woe happened at age 25, and it nagged at him for the rest of his life. Branca, a former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who died last week at age 90, was the victim, along with Dodgers fans everywhere, of the ...

The price of the opioid epidemic

No penalty in the world will bring back Michelle MacLeod to her family. Senior Assistant Attorney General Ben Agati said the Dec. 7 sentencing of Kevin Manchester, a Nashua man who pled guilty to selling lethal doses of fentanyl to MacLeod in January, was an appropriate and fair ...