As we come out of the pandemic and battle inflation, investing in our communities and creating jobs are key to our economic recovery. Job creation is a priority as I work in the U.S. Senate, especially as I help write and pass annual government funding bills. As a senior member of the Senate ...
Every year right around this time, it finds its way back to my doorstep as faithfully as the arrival of pollen, Mother’s Day and that seriously over-hyped horse race down South just the other side of the Mason-Dixon line. Once as giddily anticipated as Christmas morning, “it” has had ...
Recently, in another New Hampshire local newspaper, the New Hampshire House Minority Leader – David Cote (D-Nashua) – wrote a scathing attack on Republicans. This was odd to me, because I hadn’t heard mention of Rep. Cote for two years. I thought he had disappeared. He has not cast a ...
Gerrymandering is alive and well in New Hampshire. The Senate redistricting map, which now goes to Gov. Chris Sununu for approval creates a 2-to-1 advantage of one political party over another; this in a state considered to have approximately equal numbers of Democratic and Republican ...
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” US Constitution ...
This past January, I engaged in a round of pleasantly unproductive email with a state representative from Hillsborough. (I also own property in his district.) The subject was passenger rail in New Hampshire, and the bill now winding through the Legislature again that would preclude New ...
