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Sick as a dog

I’ve been fighting a summer cold for a couple of days and unlike most men, I’m not a whiner when I get sick. And if you’re a guy and you’re not a whiner, I don’t mean to offend. When I’m coming down with something, I tend to hibernate with the remote control and all the ...

School funding in the state budget: Subminimal progress, significant harm

Another state budget season has come and gone, and, once again, the spending plan it produced falls well short of meeting New Hampshire’s school funding needs. With students and educators facing myriad challenges post-pandemic, the shortcomings of the current budget are troubling enough on ...

Let us not discourage good people from participating in public affairs

Standing up for what you believe in is a good thing. Having an opinion is also a good thing as long as you can back up your statements with proven facts. Pontificating is never a good thing. Most of the time political operatives in the two main political parties in our city, state, and ...

Take some time to find out about your family’s food preferences

We tend to think that our preferences are the only preferences. We assume that other people like what we like, and we don’t really think to ask otherwise. I mean, why would we? After all, we wouldn’t like things if they weren’t the best possible options, right? But shockingly, other ...

‘Class Gift’ offers head start for NH’s class of 2021

In May, the news broke that all graduating New Hampshire high school seniors, including homeschool and HiSET students, would be gifted a free three-credit course at any of New Hampshire’s Community Colleges this fall. This generous gift was made possible by the New Hampshire Charitable ...

Yard sale stories worth weight in gold

As much as I enjoy outdoor summer activities like hiking and softball, no one ever warned me about how much fun I could have at a yard sale. After moving to Nashua over two years ago, we finally got around at attempting some clutter mitigation. A/k/a - yard sale. My biggest take away? Not ...