When controversial public issues warrant editorial dissection within a relatively small community, it's sometimes possible to make a point without mentioning anyone's name. Usually, pertinent individuals are readily identifiable, especially if their jobs have titles, but seeing one's own nam…
Among my most meaningful political accomplishments has been protecting God's sacred creation — our natural world. In 1987, while serving as chair of the N.H. state Senate Environment Committee, I helped guide several major conservation measures through the legislative process. That year, the…
Disappointment is always greater the closer it hits home. As someone who was born in Eaton, taught to swim by Suzanne at the beach, and put through college by the Keith Henney Fund, I offer the following commentary with a heavy heart.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The landmark moments in the history of women are well-known and widely recognized: 1848 (the Seneca Falls Convention that challenged the prevailing status of women); 1920 (the ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the vote); 1972 (Title IX, banning sex-based dis…
Disappointment is always greater the closer it hits home. As someone who was born in Eaton, taught to swim by Suzanne at the beach, and put through college by the Keith Henney Fund, I offer the following commentary with a heavy heart.
How will the world end? As a second-grader in the 1950s, Miss Mott would have us go out into the hallway with our jackets, get on our knees, press our heads against the wall and pull the jackets over our heads. The fact that I remember this 70 years later says something about the traumatic n…
The school champions who now dominate Conway's Municipal Budget Committee seem convinced that the school district budget has not risen that much over the past few years, especially if inflation is factored in. The administration implies the same by posting the school budgets since 2019-2020 …
There's an old story about a dog-food manufacturer who created a new canine concoction with the best ingredients and infused with the finest nutrients. It was launched into the market with great fanfare. There was only one problem. The dogs didn't like it.
It was a politically boisterous week in northern New England. Head of the N.H. Libertarian party Jeremy Kaufman, excommunicated from the Free Staters in 2023 for being even too racist, antisemitic and homophobic for them, scored again. He got his NH Libertarian Party ousted from the national…
Kennett High School's steamy indoor graduation of 2009 included a young lady whose education her mother and I had monitored closely. We homeschooled her through the seventh and eighth grades, when Kennett Junior High seemed dysfunctional. She was a diligent student, maintaining a stellar gra…
There is only one day left in the New Hampshire legislative calendar, which will be next Thursday, June 5.
Reports about a U.S.-Iran peace deal have been served up in recent days as a tasting menu. Instead, it increasingly seems like a palate cleanser.
Tourism thrives on misery. The concept of profiting from pleasure-seeking travelers only emerged a couple of centuries ago, just as the Industrial Revolution began seducing Western populations from bucolic agricultural communities to crowded, dirty cities and monotonous labor. OSHA may have …
Without newspapers our cities and towns could keep unpleasant facts from the public. Transparency only happens when reporters start asking questions about the conduct of public officials.
Yes, as many of us have wondered, there actually may be something in the water on the American campaign trail or in the White House.
There's a new-ish "movement" that has entered our cultural vernacular and has been cultivating in the petri dish of our climate of political extremism. "Masculinism" is a socio-political ideology centered on men's issues, but it goes much deeper. Masculinism is not to be confused with mascul…