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Should we resolve to resolve not to resolve?

It is once again that time of year when we all create our New Year’s resolutions, that list of things we resolve to do next year to make our lives better. This season often causes me to reminisce back to simpler times, when New Year’s Eve was owned by Guy Lombardo and his Royal ...

2020: Enough already – at least we didn’t get murder hornets

I’ve been racking my brain trying to think of pleasant things that happened in 2020. I fear I may fall short of my expectations. On the plus side, nobody got murdered by murder hornets, although some neighborhoods in rough parts of town were intimidated by murder hornet gangs. Murder ...

Fiscal stimulus or fiscal foolishness?

On Dec. 20, 2020, the United States Congress, hopelessly addicted to deficits and the printing press as important sources of permanent economic health and wellness, submitted to the president for his approval, a 5,593-page stimulus spending bill. Also known as The Consolidated Appropriations ...

Annual state audit shows COVID’s impact on finances

The year 2020 will never be forgotten by the people who were alive and old enough to remember. A worldwide pandemic disrupted the daily activity of everyone and upended the world’s economy, including New Hampshire’s. The financial disruption is evident in the state’s Comprehensive ...

Santa always comes through, and he always will

And finally it’s Christmas. A time for remembrance of happy Christmas past; for enjoying happy Christmas present; for anticipation of happy Christmas future. Many years ago, Francis Church of the New York Sun wrote a famous editorial in reply to a letter from an 8-year-old girl, Virginia ...