Former Vice President Mike Pence made an appearance at a Politics and Eggs breakfast in New Hampshire on Wednesday. These events, hosted by the New England Council and the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, are mandatory stops on the 'First in the Nation' campaign tour. And given it was ...
“Summertime and the livin’ is easy. Fish are jumping and the cotton is high,” a near perfect description of the heart of summer. The words are the opening lines of the famous song from the opera “Porgy and Bess” written by George Gershwin nearly a century ago. And in the Granite ...
During a recent overnight hospital stay, following a surgical procedure, my mind was wandering back to my youth (the Mesozoic era) when doctors made house calls and things were oh, so much simpler. Not to say that things today aren’t much better in terms of diagnostics and treatment, but I ...
The first day of each new school year typically marks an important milestone in a child’s development. But a set of even more important developmental milestones actually begin as young as two months of age. By then, for example, most babies should be able to make sounds other than crying and ...
If you live in a small town in New Hampshire, chances are you that you get your water from a well on your property rather than through a public water system. Since you don’t receive a bill that’s specifically for your water usage – the electric bill that includes the cost of operating ...
Consider all the back-and-forth discussion that takes place among elected officials on almost every piece of legislation put before them, then add in the sometimes lengthy public comment periods that follow, and it’s understandable how some of the fairly rare non-controversial measures can be ...
