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High school basketball tourneys … ain’t they great?

Piecing together enough stray flashes of memory to come up with some sort of at least fairly coherent stretch of recollections certainly ain’t as easy as it used to be. (I can hear my dear departed Nana sighing and warning me once again, “stop saying ain’t!” British born and raised, ...

Vacation can’t come soon enough for NH House

CONCORD -- The New Hampshire legislature is officially on vacation for a week. The first two months of the session have been hectic and a little hesitant as lawmakers in the House navigate an almost equally divided chamber. One of the results of the current 201-198 split is that all but two ...

Time to store Christmas decorations?

Among the places that you do not want to be when the power goes out at your home is in the middle of a shower. I had managed to avoid it up until now, but after nearly three decades of weathering the periodic power outages that accompany being a New Hampshire resident, it finally ...

Dartmouth Health CEO: Rural healthcare at a breaking point

American healthcare was in crisis before the pandemic. However, based on what we are now seeing, especially in rural hospitals and health systems, the worst may be yet to come. Our rural hospitals and healthcare systems continue to lose money. Many think the pandemic is over – that we are ...

Some are trying to make New Hampshire more like Florida

Some people are trying to turn New Hampshire into the Texas or Florida of the north. Other states are facing a similar attempted conversion fighting the same battle over vouchers or “Education Freedom Accounts” as here in New Hampshire. The programs proposed for Iowa and Missouri are ...

COMMENTARY: Executive Council derails commuter rail

At their last meeting of 2022, the Republican-controlled Executive Council put an end to an engineering study and preliminary design for the extension of MBTA commuter rail services from Boston and Lowell, MA to Nashua and Manchester. In a misguided attempt to save money, three Councilors ...