Letter: Bringing democracy

This is a very difficult historical period for political and religious institutions in the United States. The first in terms of a very real struggle to maintain a democratic form of government in the face of a pervasive and profound threat of...

Letter: Write in Joe Biden

To vote on January 23 for protecting the environment, lowering energy costs, and building a clean energy economy find the write-in line on your ballot, fill in the bubble, and write in Joe Biden. Felicity PoolDublin

Letter: Country in trouble

Mike Johnson, Trumpster, U.S. House speaker, tying aid to Ukraine to reform of our border policies, he has assured a victory for Putin as Putin has already doubled down on his attacks on Ukraine. To get a reformed border policy, it will take a lot of...

Opinion: It’s time to have difficult conversations about antisemitism, including in our schools

By CINDY ROSENWALD

Cindy Rosenwald (D-Nashua) is Deputy Democratic Leader. As a Jewish woman, I am seeing more and more people acknowledge there is a climate of antisemitism across the globe, in the United States, and, sadly, even here in New Hampshire. Over the past...

Opinion: In 2024, protect abortion rights in NH’s Constitution

By COLIN VAN OSTERN

Colin Van Ostern served as Executive Councilor for District 2 from 2012-2016 and lives in Concord. Here’s a resolution for 2024: let’s make this year the year that New Hampshire trusts all our citizens to make their own healthcare decisions, both in...

Letter: End the massacre of Gazans

The violence we are witnessing endangers us all, including Israeli and American citizens. The Pope has condemned a recent bombing by Israel of a refugee camp in Gaza as a “massacre.” He also called the broader war on Gaza “pointless.” One need only...

Letter: Let Haley tidy things up

The world needs Nikki Haley today for the same reason the 19th century Wild West needed women to calm everything down then. Right now the U.S. is trying to solve its problems by choosing among two men at opposite extremes who got us into these...

Opinion: On Henry Kissinger and advocating for diplomacy in NH politics

By CULLEN TIERNAN

Cullen Tiernan lives in Concord. While serving with Marine Forces Africa, I flew with the commanding general on his plane from Germany to Liberia. I spent that time reading Henry Kissinger’s book “Diplomacy.” It was done mostly to look smart, but I...

Letter: Talking term limits

As happens in every open election year in our country, all of the candidates for president in the United States are paying lip service to the issue of congressional term limits, an issue that enjoys 80% support across party lines, yet never gets off...

Letter: Haley’s troubles

Nikki Haley’s attempts to clarify her remarks about the Civil War seem to require more explanation. For example, what exactly does she mean when she says that “it was about the role of government.” Every historian I know of acknowledges that the war...

Letter: Access to voter registration for NH

42 states now have online voter registration. New Hampshire is one of only 8 states that does not offer this to its citizens. For far too long voter registration has been difficult, sometimes impossible, for New Hampshire citizens. Presently voter...

Letter: Observations

Nikki Haley has done us a great service. In her attempts to explain her response to the “gaffe” she has revealed the heart of today’s Republican Party. Although she claims “government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people,” I...

Letter: History of Hamas

Some historical context here. Hamas was created in 1987 by three men who as boys survived the 1956 rounding up and killing of Palestinian males between 15 years of age and up in Gaza by the Israeli occupying forces. Originally the Israeli government...

Opinion: Clarence Thomas must recuse from January 6 cases

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Back in November, the U.S. Supreme Court announced a new code of conduct. The announcement came in response to mounting criticism of the unethical behavior of certain justices, particularly Clarence Thomas. His...

Opinion: The only path to peace

By DAISY GOODMAN and SHARON RACUSIN

Daisy Goodman lives in Lyme. Sharon Racusin lives in Hanover. We are writing as Jews and residents of the Upper Valley of New Hampshire who are deeply saddened by the suffering and death of this past week in Israel/Palestine, and all that has occurred...

Opinion: The dog as a mobile detection device

By MAURICE REGAN

Maurice Regan is a psychologist who runs Companion Dog Training.  He handles an obedience titled K9 that is also trained in scent. Recent articles in the Concord Monitor regarding the hunt for the killer of Wendy and Stephen Reid described the role of...

Opinion: Mindful forgetting

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. The cricket’s persistent song of autumn used to haunt me, reminding me how brief life is, especially now I’m old. But it doesn’t have to...

Opinion: Speaking freely

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick lived for three months in Jayyous, Palestine as an accompanier for the World Council of Churches. For three years he was media coordinator and communication strategist for Kairos Palestine. He lives in Concord and can be reached at...

Opinion: Would the world have been any safer?

By CHARLES HUCKELBURY

Charles Huckelbury lives in Henniker. For those of us who have lived long enough, memories of the country at war remain painful but relieved that our democracy was resilient enough to survive both domestic and foreign assaults. Donald Trump remains,...

Opinion: Discerning the depths of AI

By STEPHANIE RUTT

Rev. Dr. Stephanie Rutt is founding minister of the Tree of Life Interfaith Temple in Amherst. She lives in Nashua. In the October 8th 60 Minute story featuring Geoffrey Hinton, a British computer scientist now called the “Godfather of AI,” Hinton...