After reading an Oct. 25 article in The Conway Daily Sun titled “Black Mountain gives police five days for docs,” I was taken aback, to say the least. I certainly understand the principles of open government and the validity of New Hampshire’s Right-to-Know law, RSA 91-A. We strive to fulfil…
Not so long ago, I still found the prospect of an impending road trip as tantalizing as it was in 1971, when I started across the country in a $125 beater that took me to the West Coast and back. Planning my route and loading the car always revived early childhood recollections of long drive…
The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. The same can be said of hogs and small towns.
MONTREAL — Don't think of them as Toronto's team. Think of them instead as Canada's team.
“The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.” Is this true? American essayist and social critic H.L. Mencken wrote these words. But why? And what do they mean? At first glance, this sentence seems simple, but it morphs into something complex when you apply it to the…
At a recent meeting between the Conway Budget Committee and school administrators, school board representative Mike DiGregorio finally said something that I agree with. It might be more accurate, perhaps, to say that he expressed his own agreement with something I've been harping on. Given m…
What to make of Donald Trump now?
Spend 10 minutes at the light in Conway Village on a Friday afternoon and you will see what growth looks like when it outpaces planning. In North Conway Village, delivery trucks idle behind visitors, while across town local commuters and tourists cut through neighborhood roads to save time.
This was a big week in northern New Hampshire. The foliage peaked and began to peter as the Fryeburg Fair wound down, alleviating us of the seasonal influx of tourists as they departed, sated and satisfied on spectacular scenery and fried dough. The New Hampshire DOJ issued a report that fou…
Conservatism in America no longer exists. Throughout American history there has been a philosophical debate between believers in small government and individual freedom, and those who see government as a source of progress and enhancement of our quality of life. For the past century, the Rep…
When my wife and I decided to get married, I wanted to show her Paris on our honeymoon, but she had no passport, and had never had one. She said that the East Coast inflicted such culture shock on her, after growing up in central Kansas, that she had never felt the need to travel further. We…
A draft dodging goon and a pickled FOXNews bobblehead summoned the nation’s top military leaders to Quantico, Va., to deliver an edict: the armed forces serve MAGA, and America’s liberal citizens are the military’s principal enemy. Lord, give me hope.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite monument to discord, both a reminder of the price of division and a warning to contemporary political warriors.
Six years ago, when the first of the current seven medical cannabis dispensaries opened, N.H. law was so restrictive that one literally had to be suffering from serious, debilitating or terminal illness to qualify for the Therapeutic Cannabis Program. As a result, very few residents qualified.
To the editor,
Annual town and school meetings almost always resonate with cliché pronouncements that emphasize the parochial thinking of those who utter them. "These children are our future," for example, stands as a brainless argument for almost any expenditure in the racket that public education has bec…