Of course we’re all familiar with that great July heat wave that rewrote record books, felled at random folks who dared venture out on foot during the day, claimed too many lives regardless of age or physical condition, and literally drove some of us insane, right? Indeed, who could forget ...
Local control was a phrase heard frequently last week regarding the opening of public schools this fall while the coronavirus continues to ravage much of the country. Local control is a bit of a misnomer in New Hampshire because we are not a “home rule” state. What does that ...
Can it be just over four months since the world came to a screeching halt? I think we all remember the early days of March when the pandemic came screaming down the road. Schools shut down. Restaurants and retailers closed for business. Lines at the supermarket. Shortages of toilet paper, hand ...
On January 29, 2020, long before the public was aware of COVID-19, the Department of Education provided its first Health Alert to school leaders about a developing health concern. Of course at that time, we could not have known the devastating effects of COVID, but school systems always need to ...
The nation’s eyes are on our criminal justice system following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the subsequent protests in response. Here in New Hampshire, our cities and towns have spoken up through peaceful protest to elevate the problems of systemic racism. We ...
As best as I can determine, after fairly exhaustive research “big-dig” style that involved a fair amount of dust and a few episodes of bleary eyes, Americans didn’t stoop to pointing fingers or slinging poison arrows back and forth when faced with another kind of epidemic, or pandemic, ...
