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School before Labor Day not such a big deal

I never imagined that one day school kids would date their papers August-something on the first three or four days of school. Even more unimaginable, being in a family that vacationed during the last two weeks of August since forever, was seeing “first day of school” appearing on the ...

News alert: The weird and wacky

Wash the orange from your eyes and forget the beltway for the moment; the following is the real fake news: Fowl play: A Nebraska man asked the Lincoln city council to stop restaurants, and others, who insist on referring to chicken tenders as, “boneless chicken wings.” His warbling ...

The American public deserves better than this

A recipe for disaster: Late on the night of Tuesday, August 26, Kyle Rittenhouse was walking the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin. He wore a backwards baseball cap embroidered with an image of the American flag, blue surgical-style gloves, and he carried a long gun. He was not seen to be wearing ...

Wearing masks causes another unique problem

As the saying goes, you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. After several months of wearing masks in public to help slow the spread of COVID-19, I’m realizing just how much I miss being able to see people’s facial expressions – and how much that helps us to communicate. In ...

Let’s move New Hampshire forward together

There is a lot at stake in this election. All across our country and across our state, the decisions we make this year will shape a decade of recovery. We are facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Recession and no clear end in sight. COVID has affected all of us in our daily lives. ...

Our veterans deserve better

Perhaps it’s not very surprising that Donald Trump lied to America when he said he would protect our veterans. After all, he’s lied about so many things during his disastrous presidency. But as a 28-year veteran of the United States Air Force, I believe that his broken promises to our ...