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Hostile comment embarrasses state

A legislative chamber with 400 representatives is statistically bound to have more than a few loose cannons. But, unfortunately for New Hampshire, one of the loosest of all the cannons cemented in Concord is Al Baldasaro, of Londonderry, one of Donald Trump's most vocal advisers in the ...

It’s good theater, but bad politics

It wasn't that long ago that Democrats were the party of mayhem, far more likely than Republicans to be practitioners of disorganized infighting and public disputes that made for entertaining political theater but did little to engender public confidence in their ability to run the ...

Local police still resolve to do job

These are frightening times for our country. Police officers Montrell Jackson, Matthew Gerald and Brad Garafola were killed in an ambush Sunday in Baton Rouge, La. That happened barely a week after five officers were shot and killed and seven others wounded by a sniper in Dallas. Those ...

Subsidies at odds with healthy foods

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that Americans should be eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables and low in refined grains and added sugars. However, through the billions of dollars in subsidies the USDA doles out each year, it is saying something quite different. Overwhelmingly, ...

Shed no tears for Patriots & Brady

Shed no tears for Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. Brady, the star quarterback of the National Football League team, announced on Friday that he will discontinue his fight against the decision by the league's commissioner, Roger Goodell, to suspend the player for four games. As every ...

Looking back at the week in news

The chasm between reality and the world of technology As if people needed more reasons to walk around staring at their phones, along comes "Pokemon Go" - a game for smartphones that has rocketed to the top of the charts that track the sales of phone apps. It's a modern-day ...