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It takes a village to run a village

In New Hampshire, most people who serve on city, town and school district boards are volunteers. They're certainly not in it for the money. If they are being paid at all - and most are not - it probably works out to about 3 cents an hour, or about what a conscientious member of the New ...

Crossing the line on school board

Nashua Board of Education member Doris Hohensee has been an ardent advocate for her views and transparent about her desire to see the competency-based grading system that was put into place last year overturned or forced to compete with the old grading system. That has sparked debate, which ...

Openness needed on mental heath

A63-year-old woman with a history of mental health issues jumped to her death on July 27 a building on Main Street in Nashua. It happened in broad daylight, which is more than can be said for the state's response to inquiries about how it came to be that the woman was no longer a patient at ...

Voting is not a right – but it should be

There will not be a national election this fall - not really. Instead, we will have 50 state elections where officials in more than 3,000 counties administer a patchwork of different rules and ballots. And if applying those rules keeps citizens from casting their votes, they will have very ...

A transparency lesson for Nashua

'All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them. Government, therefore, should be open, accessible, accountable and responsive. To that end, the ...

Looking back at the week in news

Scratching the surface of drone technology's potential They are technically called "unmanned aerial aircraft," - popularly referred to as "drones" - and their potential was on display this week when New Hampshire's largest electrical utility hired a ...