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Support gun-free schools

In New Hampshire, state law allows legal gun owners to carry guns into public schools. The law, as presently interpreted by the State Attorney General, forbids local school boards from prohibiting anyone but students and employees from possessing a gun on school grounds. Like many in our ...

Fearless Girl: Education, girls, women and a growing movement

“F-E-A-R has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.” – Zig Ziglar The “Fearless Girl,” a 4-foot-tall bronze statue of a girl standing defiantly with her hands on her hips has found a permanent home around the corner from ...

Hold them accountable

When the e-cigarette company, Juul, began marketing its now iconic “vape pen,” its message was unmistakable: this is what young people need to be cool and fit in. This message was ripped straight from the Big Tobacco playbook and, combined with cutting edge techniques on social media, it ...

A drink by any other name

No matter what you choose to call it, soda, soda pop, pop, tonic or soft drink, almost all of us have had that fizzy drink at one time or another. It’s moniker typically depends upon where you live. In New England, many of us refer to it as soda, but some of us still call it tonic. I can ...

February 2019 weather: Close to par

February 2019 was only unusual from the standpoint that temperatures, precipitation and snowfall all were quite close to normal. Rarely do we see all three parameters average close to long-term averages. Arctic air was in control as February began, accounting for the coldest reading of the ...

It’s time to tell our school boards, ‘enough is enough’

For years, the Amherst and Souhegan School Boards have failed to govern. This failure has led to less than stellar academic quality and incredibly high costs, in part because they have thrown money at issues that really call for other interventions. And we, the taxpayers, fearful of ...