This past week when the NH House gathered in a parking lot at UNH to begin our 2021 session, last term’s speaker Steve Shurtleff attempted to amend our house rules by banning the carrying of arms in the Statehouse and House Chamber. It reminded me of a discussion I had with a Brit a few years ...
I would very much like to begin by wishing each of you a Happy New Year. Let us all hope that 2021 will bring many blessings and perhaps a little bit of hard-earned and well-deserved normalcy. My column this month will be a little bit different than others I have written in the past. What I ...
Over the past year, the Nashua Board of Education has responded to the pandemic with an abundance of caution, presumed to be driven by good faith concern. Now, however, parents and students of the District are no longer able to assume good faith concern. On Jan. 12, the BOE decided that ...
“Whether it happens in four years or eight or 20, there is something unfailingly stirring about the transfer of government from one party to another,” reads the first of several paragraphs printed on a yellowed, dog-eared snippet of newspaper I found at the bottom of a mildewed box the ...
The January 2 one-hour phone call by President Trump demanding the Georgia Secretary of State to find 11,780 votes so Trump could carry Georgia is an abuse of his office and federal law (52 US Code section 20511 (2)(B). Georgia’s Secretary of State calmly explained to Mr. Trump that they ...
If you think Donald Trump is a bit on the unwonted side (he is), the U.S. has actually had a pack of presidential peculiarities that make The Donald seem, um, less unseemly. DIAL M FOR MURDER: Richard Milhous Nixon was paranoid. You think? Tricky Dick was obsessed and incensed with D.C. ...
Food cravings. We all get them. For me it’s usually potato chips. Or Ghirardelli chocolate. Women often confess that being with child turns on the crave hormone. Just this week I saw an Instagram video of a guy coming out of anesthesia following surgery. A visiting person in recovery handed ...
There are many things Donald Trump’s presidency will be remembered for, but the one that may be the most haunting is turning political discourse into a war zone. The culmination of this effort was the seditious riots in the nation’s Capitol Building by a Trump-inspired mob in an attempt ...
Over thirty-odd years of literacy, I’ve read thousands of books by white people, mostly men. I don’t regret a single one. Here’s what I do regret: As a white man constantly, if unconsciously, fed the standard American fare of white history, white knowledge, and white culture, it ...
An end to the pandemic is finally in sight. Both Pfizer and Moderna reported that their vaccine candidates are 95 percent effective, and subsequently received emergency use authorization from the FDA. Prioritizing the delivery of vaccines to people most at risk – including those with ...
Recently, on January 6, events shook our nation in ways that will be examined for years. I want to talk about how one man kept calm, and acted as a beacon of safety and security for all who could see him. In the middle of an ocean of chaos, he gave us signs that plans were already underway to ...
How awesome it was to see old friend Bob Desmond’s name pop up in the local news headlines the other day, this time thanks to frequent Telegraph contributor Jeffrey Hastings’s coverage of Desmond’s latest in a long string of deeds aimed at benefiting the community in which he has been ...
I’m pretty sure since Donald Trump doesn’t read anything, except the comics inside a Bazooka Joe wrapper, if he were to read the word “accelerant” next to his name, he’d say, “No, it said ‘Trump the Excellent.’ Come on- because as we all know, I am really very excellent.” He ...
According to Oxford Languages, the online dictionary used by Google, an urban legend is “a humorous or horrific story or piece of information circulated as though true, especially one purporting to involve someone vaguely related or known to the teller.” You know how this goes. It’s ...
What have you been up to since, say, last March? Never mind. That was a trick question. I already know, thanks to Google Search Trends for 2020. The list has been released. Let’s see how your curiosity index compares to the rest of us housebound members of C.L.U. – COVID Lockdown ...
When you think of eBay.com, Etsy.com, Rubylane.com, Facebook marketplace, Chairish.com, and other sites for online selling, you probably think about electronics, toys, kitchen items, jewelry, paintings, magazines, clothes, doorknobs, bikes, celebrity autographs, and just about everything – ...
While 2020 is a year few will forget, many hoped this new year would provide a brighter and more hopeful panorama to explore. However, from a Concord perspective, the first few days of 2021 look a great deal like dirgeful 2020 days. The Legislature has yet to meet in 2021, but the opening ...
As I’ve done for several years, I once again devote this space to paying tribute to local folks we lost over the course of a most forgettable year named 2020. I see it as an opportunity for all of us to silently appreciate those folks, be they family members, close friends, or acquaintences ...
It is once again that time of year when we all create our New Year’s resolutions, that list of things we resolve to do next year to make our lives better. This season often causes me to reminisce back to simpler times, when New Year’s Eve was owned by Guy Lombardo and his Royal ...
I’ve been racking my brain trying to think of pleasant things that happened in 2020. I fear I may fall short of my expectations. On the plus side, nobody got murdered by murder hornets, although some neighborhoods in rough parts of town were intimidated by murder hornet gangs. Murder ...
