Letter: Edelblut is doing right by NH children

Thank you, Commissioner Edelblut. Commissioner Edelblut is leading the way on education opportunities. He has been leading the charge for education opportunities in New Hampshire. Over the last couple years, he successfully implemented the innovative...

Letter: On guns

So we have nearly 40,000 people killed in the U.S. with guns every year, we have mass shootings in schools, churches, meetings, pretty much everywhere. Democrats in the federal government have been trying to put forward some gun safety laws but...

Letter: Commander in cheat

The testimony before the January 6 committee establishes that Donald Trump surely is the commander in cheat.Sheila ZakreConcord

Opinion: The blight of banning books

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. I have wanted, as did poet Mary Oliver, to keep a distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. I have tried, I...

Opinion: Reclaiming Medusa as a symbol of female strength

By DEVIN McDONALD

Devin McDonald is a junior at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire. Founder of The Medusa Project, McDonald has devoted much of her time outside of classes over the last several years to researching the connections between women in antiquity...

Opinion: The problem with Democrats

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. The Democrats are facing a scary mid-term election. Parties in power typically lose ground in the mid-terms. Add high gas prices and inflation to the mix, issues where voters often blame office-holders, and...

Opinion: The plan to steal the 2024 presidential election

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot.You might think that if some political partisans had a plan to steal a presidential election, it would be kept top secret. That is not the case with the Republican Party. Their plan to steal the 2024 presidential...

Letter: The facts about gas prices

Red flags went flying when I read Joe Mendola’s letter published March 17. He wrote that Biden took office on Jan. 20, 2020 and claimed that “on Jan. 19, 2020, the price of gas at the pump was $1.89/gal.” Biden took office on Jan. 21, 2021 and...

My Turn: Putin, the bear, and the book of Revelation

By RANDALL BALMER

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has made the book of Revelation relevant once again.The final book of the New Testament, with its apocalyptic visions of multi-headed dragons, plagues, vials of judgment, the Whore of Babylon and the Battle of...

My Turn: Be a civic-minded citizen

By KAITLIN ROCCA

Civics is the study of the rights and obligations of citizens in society. Civic-minded individuals are proactive citizens willing to plug into and engage in the world around them. Our society thrives when people are committed to serving the greater...

Letter: U.S. is not doing enough

Currently, 689 million people worldwide live in extreme poverty or live on less than $1.90 a day. As an international leader, the U.S. is not doing enough to aid impoverished communities abroad. Many Americans don’t know that while the U.S. military...

My Turn: Prenda not right for NH education

By JUDITH ACKERSON

Well, Gov. Chris Sununu and Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut have put another nail in the coffin of public education by pushing further funding for Prenda, an independent for-profit company tasked with spending our tax money on non-public...

My Turn: What exactly is inherent racism?

By SUSANNAH COLT

What does it mean to be “inherently superior or inferior” or “inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously?” I’ve been asking myself that question since Gov. Sununu signed into law the budget that included an...

My Turn: Upcoming state legislation aims to promote equity and fairness for private road taxpayers

By JOHN J. GOGLIA

The New Hampshire Private Road Taxpayers Alliance (NHPVRTA), a statewide nonprofit organization seeking fairness and equity for taxpayers that own property on residential private ways, was formed when a group of like-minded individuals determined that...

My Turn: Standardized tests are not the answer

By CARISA CORROW

Two recent My Turns (“A Healthy Future,” Monitor, 8/20 and “A Serious Approach,” Monitor, 8/29) both miss the mark when talking about public education and how we understand what it means to be successful for learners and public schools. If we are...

Letter: Flea and tick treatments harmful to aquatic systems

Dogs who have recently received flea and/or tick treatments and dogs wearing flea and tick collars present a danger to the waters in which they are allowed to swim. The chemicals can kill a wide variety of invertebrates essential to the ecosystem....

My Turn: A proclamation of pardon

By JOSEPH MENDOLA

If you Google “Dr. Walter E. Williams Amnesty Proclamation,” you’ll find a pardon that bestows forgiveness on all Americans of European descent who, along with their ancestors, may have discriminated against his people.Dr. Williams was a great African...

My Turn: Follow the right-wing money

By WILLIAM MADDOCKS

Looking deeper into the current debate around the so-called “divisive concepts” bill (HB 2 or HB 544) and its origins in former presidential Executive Order 13950, we find dubious lineage revealing outside money sources that oppose honest education...

My Turn: As a child of older parents

By SUSANNAH COLT

The story about the 57-year-old woman who had a baby with her 65-year-old husband triggered feelings buried deep within me. The feelings range from anger all the way to acceptance.For most of my adult life I’ve felt sad and angry because my father...

Our Turn: N.H. bee populations are in trouble, and the way forward

By DIANA CARPINONEand FAWN GAUDET

New Hampshire is a beautiful state and as residents we are incredibly blessed to live here and have the opportunity to enjoy the natural beauty that attracts tourists and supports our economy.Despite the bucolic appearance of our landscape, upon close...