Many years ago, a frequently heard phrase was “participatory democracy” and how that would be the ideal way to govern. We are not a participatory democracy, we are a democratic republic which means we elect people to represent us in our government. Federal and state governments operate ...
“Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.” These words by the late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm were never more apt than today. And the rent just went up. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), living on Planet Earth is a perilous ...
There is an effort underway going door-to-door collecting signatures for a petition to restructure the Nashua Police Commission. This is a very bad idea and the people of Nashua should reject it. Nashua has a unique structure that has provided independent oversight and accountability for our ...
A long time ago, in the swinging 60s, when the world was so much younger and the possibilities of tomorrow loomed as large as the promise of a new day dawning, a pretty young blond Welsh girl named Mary Hopkin, a protégé of Paul McCartney, had a hit song called “Those were the days.” ...
Sharing fond memories of life’s good times, perhaps swapping sometimes little-known anecdotes from the poignant to the humorous, can often be the soothing salve that eases the hurt, the pain, the loss we all feel over our lifetimes. And, as any visitor, whether sporadic, occasional or ...
This year, House Republicans worked hard to give local control back to the municipalities and more importantly, to the families and businesses within these communities. In a delicate balancing act, local control has always been tied to limited interference at the State level, and it seems that ...
