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By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. My sister, Lisa Baird, was an immigration attorney. Before she died in 2009, she had a very active private practice in Philadelphia where she represented people who were seeking asylum and trying to avoid...

By AHMED KUTTY

Ahmed Kutty, MD, lives in Peterborough. The concept of healthcare as a human right and its public funding have gained steady salience in our public discourse recently, thanks largely to the 2016 presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders. Since...

By SAM EVANS-BROWN

Sam Evans-Brown is the executive director of Clean Energy NH. For nearly twenty years electricity consumption has been pancake flat in the United States, but that era is about to end. Electrification is coming.Electric vehicles are hitting the road...

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 I confess, when I’m confronted with a discussion about people immigrating to the United States I vacillate between...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. It never gets any easier.Witness that on Wednesday, Jan. 17, as a malevolent act of cultural genocide, Israel’s military...

By CYNTHIA WHITAKER

Cynthia Whitaker, PsyD, is President & CEO at Greater Nashua Mental Health. She lives in Weare. When I first sat down to write this commentary in the wake of the Lewiston shootings in October, I never imagined that soon after there would be a...

By MOLLY BRENNAN

Molly Brennan grew up in Weare. She is an artist, disability access advocate and anti-racist organizer. I want to celebrate the sudden enthusiasm I’ve observed for girls’ sports, for keeping locker rooms safe, and for the health and dignity of the...

By BRIAN ADAMS

Brian Adams of Andover, Mass., is a UNH alumnus originally from Londonderry. He was previously a sketch comedy writing instructor and staff writer at ImprovBoston and a founding contributor to satirical online newspaper Recyculus. He is a father to...

By ADAM CZARKOWSKI

Adam Czarkowski works in the technology sector and lives in Penacook. A recent My Turn in the Concord Monitor claimed that New Hampshire has higher taxes than Massachusetts based on one retired person’s situation. I would argue as a person that is...

By MELANIE LEVESQUE

Melanie Levesque is a former NH state senator. As the first African American state senator in New Hampshire, I was proud to work to empower Granite Staters, not put stumbling blocks in front of them. Access to finance is key to empowering people to...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. When I was young, I wasn’t religious. After I got back from Vietnam, God was dead. Enchantment was a foreign concept to me. A rare...

By BILL SHORE

Bill Shore, founder and executive chair of the anti-hunger organization Share Our Strength, worked in the New Hampshire primary campaigns of Senators Gary Hart (D-CO) and Bob Kerrey (D-NE) For nearly half a century I have been a New Hampshire...

By NICK PERENCEVICH

Nick Perencevich is a semi-retired surgeon from Concord. He teaches Geisel/Dartmouth medical students and residents in Concord and Lebanon. There have been several articles in the Concord Monitor about hospital safety in regard to guns since the...

By NICOLE CLEGG

Nicole Clegg is the interim CEO of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. For years, the month of January meant three constants in my life: a new year with new priorities, the beginning of the next legislative session, and the anniversary of Roe...

By ROY SCHWEIKER

Roy Schweiker lives in Concord. Developers like to complain about Concord’s regulations, but they develop there because most other communities would reject their projects outright. For example, the Steeplegate project has requested a slew of variances...

By LOUISE SPENCER and CLAUDIA DAMON

Louise Spencer and Claudia Damon both live in Concord and are members of the Kent Street Coalition. Late last month, the Executive Council voted 4-1 to confirm Governor Sununu’s nominee to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. The vote was along party...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com Many citizens in the United States seem to be suffering a malaise of powerlessness as well as the misuse of power. Donald...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. One news story that failed to garner much traction over the last week or two was the House Democrats’ report on how during the Trump presidency his businesses obtained $7.8 million from foreign governments. This...

By MAGGIE FOGARTY and GRACE KINDEKE

Maggie Fogarty is the NH program director for the American Friends Service Committee. She lives in Dover. Grace Kindeke, an immigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo, is the AFSC-NH program coordinator. She lives in Manchester. It’s 2024, and...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. Approximately 1 in every 100 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed since Oct. 7. The total exceeds 24,000. No one knows how many more...