A bill in Congress has the attention of the coal industry because it protects them. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., will not co-sponsor this bill; she’s made the right decision for New Hampshire. The Whitfield/Manchin bill, authored by coal state legislators, would block the ...
Review of local restaurant left bad taste in her mouth In the Telegraph’s Encore section, I read a review written by Kathleen Palmer concerning The Black Forest Cafe. I was struck by the author’s snobbish manner of writing. She observed the patrons, who were mostly of ...
Have you experienced misuse of power by your public officials? Have you felt defeated before even attempting to challenge them? Your power is in RSA 91-A, commonly referred to as the Right-To-Know Law. Right To Know NH (RTKNH), a new non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to building ...
Thank you for the powerful editorial about the $2 million Breaking Bread, Breaking Ground: A New Home for the Nashua Soup Kitchen & Shelter campaign. We agree with your sentiment: The $100,000 challenge from two anonymous donors to raise $150,000 from the community by year-end is a ...
In reference to Ward 6 Alderman Paul Chasse giving the Nashua Board of Aldermen and the Mayor Donnalee Lozeau an F on a fictional report card (The Telegraph, Dec. 1), that is simply not enough. I work in the business of real estate every day and understand the re-evaluation process and feel ...
In response to the letter from Mike Pignatelli (Dec. 1), Mike makes some good points but I think he is hampered by political blinders. He tells us how good President Barack Obama is because he took out Bin Laden, but never mentioned Bengazi. I’m equally sure that if the Bin Laden ...
We write in support of the Legacy Playground proposal for installation in Greeley Park. There will be public hearing of the Board of Public Works on Monday evening at City Hall and we hope to see many familiar faces at the meeting supporting this project. In recent months, there have been ...
Mr. Michael Pignatelli’s list of President Barack Obama’s kept promises boosts the measure of the unkept promises that will have long-lasting effects. Obama inherited a won Iraq war, so it was easy to “end” it. Obama inherited a bridled conflict in ...
I recently watched a documentary entitled “Bully: It’s Time To Take A Stand.” It brought back memories of my own childhood in the 1960s. I was “picked on” and “bumped” around in the corridors of school. I was smaller than ...
To the residents of Nashua: Thank you for a fabulous 30-year political career. Moving here in 1979, I never suspected my life would take such an interesting and rewarding direction. Getting involved in the issues I cared about propelled me from my immediate neighborhood in the North End to the ...
This week, Pope Francis decried economic societies in which wealth supposedly “trickles down” to lower socioeconomic classes. He warned us to be wary of economies that promote inequality and deprive the majority to a quality of life few can enjoy. He stated, “we ...
This Saturday, Dec. 7, Nashua will host the NH/VT First Lego League Championship at Nashua High School South. The event showcases the talents of New Hampshire and Vermont students ages 9-14 competing in robot design, teamwork and technology innovation. The focus of FLL is to solve a ...
Your editorial “Just plane aggravating – phones in the air” (Nov. 27) is the umpteenth article I have read by bloggers, columnists, editors, etc., who apparently are desperately looking for an issue they can act upset about. All of them must be intelligent enough ...
Recent poll numbers show lower approval ratings for President Barack Obama. Well, you’d wonder how anybody could have a decent rating, given all the sniping by his opposing political party whose only objective seems to be his failure. I rate the president as an honest, effective, and ...
New Hampshire sportsmen and women have made huge strides in restoring the state’s wildlife species. Across the country, the sporting community has invested millions of dollars to restore wildlife and nature preserves, ensuring that New Hampshire hunters and anglers have adequate ...
I don’t go to Symphony New Hampshire performances as often as I should, but every time I do, I walk away with the same thought: “What a gem we have here in Nashua.” The recent performance last Saturday was nothing short of brilliant. The tag team of Music Director ...
Last week’s ‘crisis’ was the U.S. Senate’s majority vote to change Senate rules to eliminate filibustering of presidential appointments to the executive and judicial branches. Despite howls of protest, this change is probably a step in the right ...
President Obama will get a break from “Obamacare” when he pardons the traditional Thanksgiving turkey. Each of us can also set aside our cares by pardoning a turkey and choosing a nonviolent Thanksgiving observance – one that gives thanks for our good fortune, ...
The New Hampshire Senate’s refusal to expand Medicaid is, at the very least, disappointing. Senators are putting the “fears” that the federal government might not keep the money coming over the needs of 50,000 citizens of New Hampshire. As representatives of our ...
I am disgusted with Congress’s penchant for producing kilo-bills. Those thousand-plus pages of gobbledygook require vast bureaucracies to produce multi-thousand pages of rules and regulations. The most visible one today is the Affordable Care Act, which after three years has not had ...