Opinion

Letter: Ex-game show host

According to collider.com, “Despite enjoying decades of loyal viewership, the game shows have considerably declined in numbers and popularity.” So, what’s an ex-game show host to do? The lights, the excitement, the pomp, the pressure, the advertised...

Letter: It’s not true that school vouchers save taxpayer money

Watch out for out-of-state lobbyists spewing misinformation about our NH public schools. Andrew Yates, who works for a Virginia company that promotes school vouchers, tells us in a My Turn (Monitor, 4/17) that school vouchers will save us taxpayer...

Letter: Look familiar?

Good work America! First you visit your wrath on folks crossing your borders trying to survive and find a better life. Now you are beating up and arresting your own children on college campuses for trying to do what is right. Your children are way...

Letter: Reject anti-trans legislation

So many anti trans bills have been introduced this legislative session! One of them, HB 396, would allow bans on trans people from bathrooms and locker rooms. This not only affects restaurants, conference centers, ski area, etc. where trans people can...

Opinion: Campus chaos and America’s character

By VIKRAM MANSHARAMANI

Vikram Mansharamani of Lincoln is a candidate for Congress in New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District. He was previously on the faculties of both Yale and Harvard. Jewish students being warned to avoid college campuses for their own safety. Angry...

Opinion: Learning from landscapes

By PARKER POTTER

Parker Potter is a former archaeologist and historian, and a retired lawyer. He is currently a semi-professional dog walker who lives and works in Contoocook. Not long after my family and I returned from Ireland last summer, I started putting up...

Opinion: The Concord School Board can restore trust with residents

By MARGARET LANDSMAN

Margaret Landsman has lived in Concord for 33 years. Before she retired, she taught English and ESOL at NHTI. I have long been happy Concord has a school board financially independent from the city council, and believe it generally has resulted in a...

Opinion: Summer camp registration: The only thing higher than the price is the anxiety

By BRIAN ADAMS

Brian Adams of Andover, Mass., is a UNH alumnus originally from Londonderry. He was previously a sketch comedy writing instructor and staff writer at ImprovBoston and a founding contributor to satirical online newspaper Recyculus. He is a father to...

Opinion: ‘This being human is a guest house’

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com ‘May he judge your people with righteousness and your poor with justice,” the 72nd Psalm begins. It continues “... May he defend...

Opinion: The truth of it

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com Watching and reading the news today involves frequent exposure to the word “existential,” employed to mean truth....

Letter: The show will go on in Plymouth

The show will go on in PlymouthDowntown Plymouth suffered a devastating fire last week, one that changed the face of Main Street, and threatened our more than 100-year-old entertainment venue, The Flying Monkey. Our theater was filled with more than...

Letter: The folly of parental rights laws

My brother was gay. I didn’t know this growing up. We were close, did almost everything together but this secret of his I did not know. Neither did my parents, strong conservative church going Christians that they were. They didn’t because my brother...

Opinion: Public school standards overhaul will impact every facet of public education in NH

By MEGAN TUTTLE

Megan Tuttle is the president of NEA-New Hampshire. As a mom, I want strong schools for my three boys. As an educator, I want all Granite State students to have access to high-quality educational opportunities, regardless of their zip code. As the...

Opinion: A bad idea for New Hampshire

By ADAM CZARKOWSKI

Adam Czarkowski works in the technology sector and lives in Penacook. Susan McKevitt’s recent opinion column “It’s time to properly fund education” in the Concord Monitor reads like a case for a state income tax without saying the words “income tax.”...

Letter: Obscenity in schools

The commissioner of education is anxious about pronouns hurting kids in New Hampshire schools. Maybe it’s the active shooter drills they’ve been put through since they were five, but my kids themselves are unperturbed by that stuff. Get a grip and...

Letter: Concord School board decisions

Let’s commend the Concord School Board. In a time of polarization, the board managed to unite disparate groups in our community. As Kass Ardinger, former long-term board member said on 12/6/23, “The Concord community has shown a high level of...

Letter: Edleblut stonewalls legislature’s audit

Can you imagine any NH state department, agency or commission using $45 million of our tax dollars but putting roadblocks in the way of a performance audit of the program? The commissioner of education is hoping you don’t care enough to know. Our...

Letter: A new voice in the wilderness

Most Americans regardless of which network to gather your news from are left scratching their collective heads wondering what happened to the current generation and what holds true for the future of our country. Then I read the thoughts of Hopkinton...

Opinion: Medical Aid in Dying would have spared my father’s suffering

By PAT WILCZYNSKI

Pat Wilczynski is a retired psychotherapist living in Concord. The NH End of Life Options Act, HB 1283, would have saved my father. Not from dying, but from the miserable and heartbreaking way he died.His name was Ed Wilczynski. He was over six feet...