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By MICHAEL S. LEWIS

Michael S. Lewis, senior litigation shareholder at Rath, Young & Pignatelli in Concord, is one of the state’s leading media-rights and First Amendment attorneys with substantial experience litigating matters involving state and federal constitutional...

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 Donald Trump beat Nikki Haley by 11 percentage points in New Hampshire’s Republican primary. According to exit polls,...

By BETTY HOADLEY

Betty Hoadley is a Concord resident and former board chairperson. The dust may not have settled from the Dec. 6 school board decision to build the new middle school in the Broken Ground area. It is doubtful that Concord taxpayers have lost interest in...

By JEFF WELLS

Jeff Wells lives in Concord. I’m writing as a concerned taxpayer and community member to express my apprehensions regarding the ongoing middle school project led by our local school board. My apprehensions include: Missed project milestones; Clinton...

By JOHN BRODERICK

John T. Broderick, Jr. is the former Senior Director of External Affairs at Dartmouth-Hitchcock and formerly served as Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Years ago, Air Force Lieutenant Jeffrey Meinholtz, who had been kicked out of the...

By THOMAS NEWKIRK

Thomas Newkirk is the author of “Literacy’s Democratic Roots.” He is also a member, and former chair, of the Oyster River Cooperative School District. The opinions expressed in this column are his own.” The “Anti-Obscenity in Schools” bill, proposed...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at robertazzitheother.substack.com I remember the time in 1984, following the Israeli-Lebanese War, when Columbia Professor Edward Said published “Permission to...

By MARK HAYWARD

Mark Hayward worked as a reporter in New Hampshire from 1991 to this past summer when he retired from the New Hampshire Union Leader. He currently serves on NEFAC’s New Hampshire Advisory Committee. ‘Dear Sir or Madam, I am making this request under...

By LYNN STANLEY

Lynn Stanley, LICSW, of Concord, is the executive director of the National Association of Social Workers, New Hampshire Chapter. People are often shocked to learn sixteen and seventeen-year-olds can get married in New Hampshire. Our elected...

By RICHARD BIRCHER

Richard Bircher lives in Lebanon. That our local taxes have risen this year is not the primary jest of this essay, though this increase, along with the previous ones, is certainly of concern.Surely, any full-fledged adult recognizes the necessary...

By JAMES FIESEHER

James Fieseher MD, FAAFP, retired, lives in Dover. There’s an old joke about a lazy man with a leaky roof. When it rained, water was everywhere, ruining his carpets and furniture. A visiting neighbor asked him why he didn’t fix the roof, and the man...

By A. J. KIERSTEAD

A. J. Kierstead is the editor and host of The New England Take. If there is one hard lesson the 2024 New Hampshire Primary has taught me, it is that presidential politics has nothing to do with policy. For me, that is a tough pill to swallow.When...

By LUCY KARL

Lucy Karl is a devoted mother and retired attorney in Hopkinton. A bipartisan group of New Hampshire legislators has introduced end-of-life legislation, which gives true meaning to our state’s motto: “Live Free or Die.” The New Hampshire End of Life...

By STEVEN WADE

Steven Wade, Concord, NH Coalition for Suicide Prevention. Today the Granite State finds itself at a crossroads with the introduction of House Bill 1283, new legislation that seeks to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS). The bill effectively...

By HILLARY NELSON

Hillary Nelson lives in Canterbury. I am the mother of two, a 29-year-old and a 34-year-old. And both of them, when they were adults, came out as transgender.People like me and my family just want to quietly live our lives. And up until a few years...

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. In my last My Turn, I wrote about happy accidents my family has experienced while...

By SUSANNE SMITH MEYER

Susanne Smith Meyer lives in Concord. In his Monday, Jan. 22, My Turn, Roy Schweiker made a number of valid arguments related to the Monitor Way and Steeplegate Mall mixed use development proposals. The zoning board and planning board will have to...

By DAVID PAIGE, ANGELA BRENNAN and NICHOLAS GERMANA

David Paige (Conway), Angela Brennan (Bow/Hopkinton), and Nicholas Germana (Keene) are NH State Representatives. Here in the “Live Free or Die” state, we prize our freedoms. But in New Hampshire, as elsewhere in the United States, we are seeing an...

By AMY ANTONUCCI and MARCUS CHRISTIAN HANSEN

Amy Antonucci of Barrington is Chair of the NH Peace Action Education Fund Board. Marcus Christian Hansen of Alstead is a member of the NH Peace Action Education Fund Board. This My Turn is written on behalf of the NH Peace Action Board of Directors....

By ROB SPENCER

Rob Spencer, M.D. lives in Concord. As a physician, I want to apologize to the citizens of New Hampshire with regard to end-of-life care. I do this in response to a Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) bill introduced in the legislature which allows healthcare...