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By CAPPY and MARK NUNLIST
Cappy and Mark Nunlist live in Lebanon. HB 1283, the Medical Aid in Dying Bill (MAiD), has passed the NH House by a slim margin and is now before the Senate. The three primary objections to the bill are one, the bill will morph into a mandate to...
By CHRIS SERRAO and GHENA KUBBA
Chris Serrao and Ghena Kubba are students at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter. “There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous...
By DEB HOWES and MEGAN TUTTLE
Deb Howes lives in Hudson and is the president of AFT-NH. Megan Tuttle lives in Concord and is the president of NEA-New Hampshire. Every student, no matter the color of their skin or the zip code they live in, deserves educators who are caring,...
By STEVE DUPREY
Steve Duprey is the owner and president of The Duprey Companies. As a New Hampshire native of many generations, I know a large reason this is such an exceptional place to live, work, own a business and raise a family is the way our institutions and...
By GAIL DIMAGGIO
Gail DiMaggio lives in Concord. A friend challenged me to write about reproductive rights because, she said, “You’re old enough to remember.” She had a point. The young, of course, never experienced what women faced before Roe. And for a lot of...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. It has now been 14 years since Howard Zinn died. A historian, Zinn is mostly remembered for writing “A People’s History of the United States,” a controversial recounting of the American story. Zinn focused on the...
By GIB WEST
Gib West lives in Concord. Many pieces of great literature explore the themes of power and hubris, and thus can be revisited to examine how we, as members of a community, can question ourselves or our leaders and in so doing seek a just path.It is...
By JEAN STIMMELL
Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. I need to vent about the college protests. I am beside myself, appalled at my country’s unconditional military support of Israel’s...
By CHRISTOPHER HERR
Christopher Herr is a teacher at Concord High School and a resident of Concord. House Bill 1205 would prohibit transgender female athletes from participating in school sports “designated for women, females, or girls” in grades 5-12. The NH Senate had...
By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI
Jean Lewandowski is a retired special needs teacher. She lives in Nashua. Republican politicians, including Gov. Sununu, are suffering from “Be careful what you wish for” syndrome. They have been flip-flopping like stranded carp since their Supreme...
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 This last week I went for my monthly haircut. At my age, I get a significant discount (thank you very much). However,...
By ROBERT AZZI
Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com It would be easy to write a column simply identifying the ever-expanding roster — now over 100, including at Dartmouth and UNH...
By ANN PODLIPNY
Ann Podlipny lives in Chester. I was a child protection service worker (CPSW) at the Division of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) back in the 1990s. I’m now a farmer at the Manchester Food Bank’s one-acre garden located on the grounds of the Youth...
By PATRICK MCDERMOTT
Patrick McDermott is AARP NH’s volunteer state president. New Hampshire has a historic opportunity to expand access to affordable, reliable, high-speed internet to everyone in the state, no matter where they live or their circumstances. Access,...
By MITCHELL SIMON
Mitchell Simon lives in Contoocook. The most frustrating and infuriating part of the debate on the proposed Medical Aid in Dying bill is that the only objections being voiced are based on speculation. According to the recent Monitor story, we hear...
By STEVEN M. GORDON
Steven M. Gordon lives in Hopkinton and is senior counsel to Shaheen & Gordon. A recent Concord Monitor Letter to the Editor argued that the passage of the bipartisan NH End of Life Options Act (HB 1283) that would allow medical aid in dying as an...
By ROGER BLEAU
Roger Bleau is a lifelong Granite Stater who lives in Manchester. As a Vietnam veteran, Christian, father, grandfather, and sports coach, I am deeply concerned about the ramifications on our children’s well-being and freedom if New Hampshire passes...
By SEBASTIAN FUENTES
Sebastian Fuentes is the NH Movement Politics Director for Rights & Democracy. He has collaborated with Coos County Democrats, and Plymouth Area Democrats, and became the first Latino NH State Democratic delegate from the North Country, co-founded the...
By JONATHAN P. BAIRD
Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Polls are omnipresent in America and I admit to deep skepticism about their accuracy. I think of Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton and the failure of the red wave to materialize in 2022 as examples that justify that...
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...
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...
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