The world is in the midst of a global pandemic, the likes of which we haven’t experienced in more than 100 years. And there is one very important thing that the New Hampshire General Court can do to help New Hampshire’s economy come out of the pandemic stronger than it went in. Pass a ...

I’ll be honest with you: some problems can feel really overwhelming to me. When that’s the case it’s usually because of a combination of complexity and severity. Such is the case with youth homelessness. For several years now we’ve become more and more involved with this issue in our ...

Some years ago, a newspaper suggested that the state of Florida is the perfect barometer for strange behavior. As a former Floridian, I concur. I may not have added to the Sunshine State’s gritty surrealism, but I sure didn’t fight it. IN THE DOGHOUSE: Last week, a Miami veterinarian ...

Thank you to the New Hampshire National Guard, local community and safety personnel who continue doing their parts in batting down the COVID crisis. After four visits for vaccine injections, (two for Lady Baba, two for me), I am grateful not only for their service but impressed by their upbeat ...

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire’s senior senator, just may have discovered the secret to delivering her self-admitted so-so jokes at the PLUS Company’s Wild Irish Breakfast – with no concerns whatsoever about how they’ll be received by her audience. Shaheen, who as a former ...

Elections have consequences and Democrats are about to receive a difficult reminder of how impactful the repercussions can be. The second decade of the 21st Century ended Dec. 31 and that means the U.S. Census will be done counting the nation’s people, the population of every state, ...

Ensuring the safety of students should be the top priority of all of New Hampshire’s schools. Students need to know that they are in a safe and secure environment in order to learn. Many communities across our state, including here in Nashua, have for years partnered with their local police ...

In a democratic republic like the United States, voters are meant to choose their politicians, not the other way around. Like many of our fellow Granite Staters, we take free and fair elections personally. One of us served for years as a Republican leader in the NH House of Representatives ...

This time of year never fails to catch me off guard. Perhaps it’s bearing witness to the cycle of rebirth, as life, that fecund thing, can be found in those sprouting flowers. Why, you can even see it in the joyful flitting of birds and the adorable buzzing of bees. However, you won’t ...

Three days before Christmas in 1947, leaders of Nashua’s Universalist Church – this was before the parish merged with the Unitarians to form the Unitarian Universalist Church – took a chance and invited a local teenager they’d heard was a pretty good magician to do a show at the ...

WAXING PHILOSOPHIC: Famed NYC restaurant Peter Luger Steakhouse has teamed with Madame Tussauds to have celebrity wax figures rub elbows with patrons, promoting the easing of pandemic restrictions on indoor dining in the Big Apple. A wax Jon Hamm, known for his ad exec Don Draper in the series ...

Free is the ultimate catch word for any promotion. Use the word “free,” and one is likely to garner almost anyone’s attention. Free with purchase, free for stopping by, free, today only. A TV ad for a regional car dealer who likes to “keep it awesome” even promises free money. Of ...

In February 2013, I wrote an Op-Ed about a new record number of individuals who were stuck in New Hampshire hospital emergency departments waiting for a psychiatric inpatient bed for an involuntary emergency admission (IEA). There were 44 individuals waiting on February 4, 2013. Eight years ...

The 1930s are often referred to as “Nashua’s Disaster Decade,” and is understood to refer to the three calamities that visited these parts between May 1930 and September 1938. Unless, of course, you count the Great Depression, which would bring it to four calamities within the ‘30s. ...

There are some traits that you anticipate being passed down through a family – eye color or hair color, for example, or artistic ability or a knack for science. And then there are other traits that work their way down through the generations that are a little more unusual. To our great ...

I’m pretty excited that in just days I will have my second COVID-19 vaccine injection. I realize this is a serious time but there are still some funny things happening. I am feeling a bit left out since WMUR was not on hand when my first shot went in. Have you noticed that people receiving ...

If you were sitting on your couch, rocking back and forth as you prayed the pain and discomfort away, then you were probably watching the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a four-day event held in Orlando, Florida last week. The event was held at an Orlando Hyatt because ...