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The Year Without a Summer: Time to mind our transgressions?

We have reached that time of the year when some among us will grumble about the heat and humidity, but this year, out of respect for what our forebears suffered through 200 years ago, we ought not be quite so quick to do so. The year was 1816, known in meteorological circles as “The ...

Is United Kingdom the first domino?

On Friday, as the dust was just beginning to settle across a Europe that would be dramatically changed by the United Kingdom's vote to leave the 28-member European Union, some began to push for still more disintegration. In Holland, Geert Wilders, a right-wing leader, tweeted: ...

Board’s approach serves the public

The situation facing the Nashua Board of Education is not an enviable one: replace your top three administrators in a fairly short period of time and do it in such a way that the transition doesn't adversely effect the district's students and staff. The departure of Superintendent Mark Conrad ...

Looking back at the week in news

Kuster's decision to share her story was a selfless act When Betty Ford was the nation's first lady in the 1970s, there was no topic she wouldn't talk about, including marijuana use, premaritial sex and her own long-running battle with alcoholism. It changed the national conversation about ...

Meeting a need of the hungry

When organizers with the United Way of Greater Nashua put out the call for volunteers to help package meals for local food organizations like the Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter, New Hampshire Food Bank, Share Outreach in Milford and Corpus Christi Food Pantry in Nashua, they were hoping to ...

Senate’s 60-vote rule impedes US

Regardless of how you feel about the gun votes that were taken in Washington this week - and Republicans and Democrats both put proposals on the table they knew would be scorned by the other side - an underlying problem is the U.S. Senate itself and its rule that requires 60 votes to bring a ...