Looking leisurely through Telegraph archives and tapping various other sources for things that went on around here when I stood about knee-high to a grasshopper, I couldn’t help but wonder what the heck we did to tee-off Mother Nature so badly. Sure, we’ve had plenty of spates of bad ...
This past week when the NH House gathered in a parking lot at UNH to begin our 2021 session, last term’s speaker Steve Shurtleff attempted to amend our house rules by banning the carrying of arms in the Statehouse and House Chamber. It reminded me of a discussion I had with a Brit a few years ...
I would very much like to begin by wishing each of you a Happy New Year. Let us all hope that 2021 will bring many blessings and perhaps a little bit of hard-earned and well-deserved normalcy. My column this month will be a little bit different than others I have written in the past. What I ...
Over the past year, the Nashua Board of Education has responded to the pandemic with an abundance of caution, presumed to be driven by good faith concern. Now, however, parents and students of the District are no longer able to assume good faith concern. On Jan. 12, the BOE decided that ...
“Whether it happens in four years or eight or 20, there is something unfailingly stirring about the transfer of government from one party to another,” reads the first of several paragraphs printed on a yellowed, dog-eared snippet of newspaper I found at the bottom of a mildewed box the ...
If you think Donald Trump is a bit on the unwonted side (he is), the U.S. has actually had a pack of presidential peculiarities that make The Donald seem, um, less unseemly. DIAL M FOR MURDER: Richard Milhous Nixon was paranoid. You think? Tricky Dick was obsessed and incensed with D.C. ...
