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By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Chris Sununu announced what many in New Hampshire’s political world had expected, that the popular former Republican governor would forgo a 2026 run for the U.S. Senate in the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

For a school district trying to realize a near-decade-long plan to replace its middle school, the trifecta of tariffs, no state building aid and rising inflation cast long shadows.

Emergency services responded to a motor vehicle accident Monday afternoon at the intersection of NH Route 129 and Pleasant Street Extension in Loudon.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

For the 12 years Landrine Tumaini has lived near Keach Park, she’s gone for walks, shot hoops and played soccer there.

Welcome to Trump’s Amerikkka: Experience racism, inequality, hate and violence at your leisure. Fascism is not being called for what it is, but you, too, will have a chance to experience it firsthand. Don’t ask for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for you, your children, your grandchildren and generations to come. The question becomes what we would like to see rise from the ashes.

Since the circus came to the White House, there are so many things happening I can’t keep track. A car show in the front driveway with only one vendor there. I wonder what the other car manufacturers thought about being left out. They’ve been engineering cars and trucks, retooling factories and building battery manufacturing facilities. Why were they left out? Aren’t they also great companies with smart people? I guess not. One question that keeps coming back to me and hasn’t been in the news recently is: What happened to TikTok? Both branches of the legislature passed bi-partisan legislation calling for TikTok to be shut down due to national security concerns. TikTok fought it all the way to the Supreme Court and the court upheld the law agreeing it was in the national interest to remove TikTok. In February, for about 6-8 hours, TikTok went dark. However, through an executive order, it was brought back for 30 days so the “smartest man” on the planet could find a buyer. I haven’t heard if there’s a buyer or even an interested party. 30 days have passed — shouldn’t the law be upheld? This is another example of President Trump thumbing his nose at the other co-equal branches of our government.

I recently attended public committee hearings at the Legislative Building in Concord on some bills being considered for a vote in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. While waiting for my turn to be called to testify before the committee, I noticed several out-of-state people being called to testify before me. This was infuriating. I asked Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs Chairman MacDonald why out-of-state people were being allowed to testify before the committee before me. His response was that there were no rules as to who gets to testify before anyone. This is outrageous. I do not understand why people from out of state are allowed to come into our state to testify and influence our legislature anyway. To me, it’s akin to voting in a state in which you don’t reside. I can understand having an expert in a certain field be allowed to come in from out of state to testify about a bill, but these people were not experts. They were out-of-staters who didn’t like freedom and diversity and who came to New Hampshire to influence our legislators. This should not be allowed.

Long ago, we should have gotten rid of these hordes coming across our borders. A million of these ne’er-do-wells – French Canadians, mostly Catholic – poured into New Hampshire and New England in the late 1800s. Sure, we needed them for cheap labor, but we failed to recognize them, as the New York Times did at the time, as “ignorant and unenterprising, subservient to the most bigoted of Catholic priests [and] caring nothing for our free institutions, civil or religious liberty or the benefits of education.” And we failed to see this Canadian invasion — again, as the Times saw — as a planned effort to create a “New France” as “part of a priestly scheme, fervently fostered in Canada, to bring New England under the control of the Roman Catholic faith.” This was seen as “the avowed purpose of the secret society to which every adult French Canadian belongs.” An invasion a generation earlier brought several million Irish Catholics to New England to fill labor needs. Their shortcomings, too, were clearly labeled: “stupid, apelike, lazy, drunks, criminals, takers…” Their depravity and Catholicism were seen as threats to American nativist culture. As foreseen, the descendants of these hordes have taken over New Hampshire; but unpredictably, they became property owners, entrepreneurs, civic leaders and civil servants. In fact, our governor is a hybrid product of these hordes, a genuine Irish-French Canadian Catholic. What surprises me is her decision to cooperate with Donald Trump’s mass deportation and turn a blind eye on the experiences of her ancestors.

Whew! Thank you Chief Justice John Roberts! President Trump’s rant, which reads like he’s a sociopathic mob boss rather than the president of the United States, is yet another embarrassing, cringe-worthy display of who some of you elected to be the leader of our nation. Is there no end to Trump’s destruction of everything we stand for? I’m tired of bumping into friends who are depressed, who feel powerless, who won’t watch or listen to the news, who feel the weight of this negative energy cast upon us daily by a dysfunctional, personality-disordered leader. I am more than tired of it… of him. So I’m asking, where are you, Democrats? Where are our leaders, past and present, who are allowing this to occur? Why aren’t you speaking out? Where are you?

Making our billionaires into trillionaires. Making our most needy more needy, more hungry, more homeless and less healthy. Please tell me when and in what universe did such policies make America great.

The treatment of President Zelensky in the Oval Office and the “pause” in U.S. military assistance and military intelligence to the Ukrainians is immoral! The fact is that Ukraine is fighting for its very existence against a brutal enemy led by a dictator. Our moral compass has disappeared, and this causing death in Ukraine and giving Russia the advantage in any negotiations. This is a shameful demonstration of how not to lead the free world, and it is making us less safe from those who wish harm to the United States! This is no way to show that we value individual freedoms and the safety of people under attack from a vicious bully.

President Trump’s trade war is idiotic because he doesn’t understand his tariffs are paid for by American consumers and he will never understand. That being said, the rest of the world does not have to reciprocate. The only thing the other countries have to fear is loss of market share and that loss is years down the road since the U.S. won’t have factories built to make these products for many years and labor cost will make these products uncompetitive. Companies in these countries can also sell to the U.S. at their usual prices and make the usual profits because Trump’s tariffs only affect U.S. importers and customers. These countries also have the rest of the world to sell to at the nontariff prices. These other countries would compete with the U.S. with prices that are 25% to 50% lower.

As a retired principal and teacher, I have appreciated the recent articles about the Concord Regional Technical Center. I have seen the importance of these regional centers to the young people of our state and to our state economy. The most recent article focused on a visit to the Center by Gov. Kelly Ayotte, who asked Principal Anne Fowler what the state could do to support the program. Principal Fowler responded that the state needs to address the state funding shortfalls. State funding for the program has decreased since 2020 and is flat-funded in the governor’s current budget under discussion in the legislature. Costs are downshifted to local communities that are struggling with rising tuition costs. Gov. Ayotte responded that increasing state funding would not be her first approach, but she did not share other approaches that she was pursuing to cover these costs. The governor supports providing Education Freedom Account vouchers to the wealthiest families in the state for children who do not need the funds to pursue their dreams. She is ignoring the dreams of another whole group of our state’s children. I have great regard for Anne Fowler’s professionalism as she spoke clearly and directly to Gov. Ayotte. I have no regard for Gov. Ayotte, who used a visit to the Concord Regional Technical Center for cheap publicity without any intention of furthering the goals of the Center.

Israel was entitled to reply to the murder of its 1,200 citizens and the kidnappings of more than 200 people by Hamas. But the Israeli army has gone far beyond a reasonable response. It has flattened hundreds of thousands of buildings in Gaza, including 90 percent of the housing. It has caged most of the people in massive desert concentration camps, moving them every few weeks to new sites, while blocking trucks with food and humanitarian aid at the Egyptian border. Millions of people, mostly women and children, face starvation. Heaven help them if the fighting resumes unchecked. They are the hostages of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an un-prosecuted war criminal, also charged with corruption prior to the war in his own country. He is our co-defendant in the court of world opinion, which doesn’t like America very much right now, thanks in large part to our rouge president. Trump is making our democracy a dictatorship like Russia and the former democracy of Israel as fast as possible.

Concord Coach Lines is about to resume the direct service between Concord and New York City that ended when COVID hit.

By RACHEL WACHMAN

As customers loaded groceries into cars at the Shaw’s parking lot in Fort Eddy Plaza, Ricky Tewksbury circulated to round up scattered shopping carts. People waved at his approach, greeting him by name and stopped to chat for a few minutes.

Concord Hospital Cardiovascular Institute has launched a new campaign to reinforce its reputation as New Hampshire’s heart hospital and spotlight its 25-year legacy of life-saving cardiac care. Built around real patient experiences, the campaign highlights the expertise, cutting-edge technology, and compassionate approach that make the institute a leader in cardiovascular health.

One person was hospitalized due to carbon monoxide poisoning following a 911 call at a Concord home Monday.

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A written threat on the wall of a girls’ bathroom at Concord High School led administrators to abruptly dismiss students Monday afternoon.

By LAU GUZMÁN

Several Ukrainians in Concord and across the U.S. mistakenly received emails from the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday telling them that the parole status that allowed them to stay in the U.S. was over and they should self-deport within a week.