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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 ...

These Olympians have already won

The International Olympic Committee has proven itself to be an easy target for criticism over the years, and why not? It purports to champion the spirit of sportsmanship and fair play, but what the IOC really values is – no surprise here – money. In that vein, ...

Voters deserve better debates

As things stand now, it looks like Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are running for president on basically the same platform: vote for me because I'm not my opponent. Polls say no two candidates in history have been looked upon with greater disdain at this point in the process. Or, as Harry ...