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By CHARLES HUCKELBURY

Charles Huckelbury lives in Henniker. The 2024 election season has begun, and the Democrats appear to have finally learned that the polarized electorate cannot be swayed by simple slogans and Trump’s obvious defects. President Biden’s first campaign...

By JEAN LEWANDOWSKI

“War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. A sensitive and discriminating judgment is called for; a skilled intelligence to scent out the...

By JEFF FRENKIEWICH

Jeff Frenkiewich teaches social studies at Milford Middle School. He is an adjunct professor of education at the University of New Hampshire. The views expressed here represent those of the author, not Milford School District or UNH. On Sept. 19,...

By LORI NERBONNE

Lori Nerbonne, an RN formerly from Bow, and retired co-founder of New England Patient Voices, lives in Biddeford, Maine. Mr. John Rodgers’ recent My Turn, “NH patients, and families, deserve better” is a gift to The New Hampshire Hospital...

By JIM TANNER

Jim Tanner is a retired IBM manager who lives in Concord. In 2019 I ran a total tax burden comparison between Concord and my previous residence in Cambridge, Mass. I ran the comparison again in 2023. The results are surprising. The tax burden in New...

By HANAN BABIKIR BEDRI

Hanan Babikir Bedri, MS, MA, is executive director of New Hampshire Public Health Association. There is one essential thing everyone in the Granite State can do to protect their health and the health of their loved ones. This measure is easy to...

By DJ BETTENCOURT and BRENDHAN HARRIS

DJ Bettencourt is commissioner of the New Hampshire Insurance Department. Brendhan Harris is fraud director at the New Hampshire Insurance Department. While 2023 marked several positive insurance achievements in New Hampshire, including a record...

By CHRISTINA FITZPATRICK

Christina FitzPatrick of Bow is AARP NH State Director. As presidential candidates descend upon New Hampshire in earnest for the First-in-the-Nation primary and come face to face with Granite Staters, they’d be wise to realize who’s putting them into...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Part of the legacy of racism and white supremacy in America is the failure to recognize and acknowledge key Black leaders in the Black freedom struggle. Paul Robeson is one such leader. In my own informal poll of...

By CARISA CORROW

Carisa Corrow of Penacook is co-author of “126 Falsehoods We Believe About Education” and founder of Educating for Good. It’s been established by the state constitution and reiterated by the courts that the state bears the responsibility of...

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. My wife, Nancy Jo, and I have done our fair share of traveling. We’re not the most...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

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

By GREG BERGER

Greg Berger is the owner of Spring Ledge Farm in New London. We’ve been farming for nearly 40 years. We began seeing the changes about a dozen years ago: Frosts came later, we picked vegetables longer into the fall, droughts were more severe, but...

By ROBERT AZZI

Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. I have to admit I struggled with this column for days; conflicting thoughts percolated for days, some ideas discarded, others added....

By JOHN S. HANCOCK

John S. Hancock lives in Concord. When Hisham Awartani and two of his lifelong friends were brutally gunned down during the Thanksgiving Day holiday in Burlington, Vermont, President Joe Biden denounced the shooting by declaring “there’s no place in...

By PAUL LEVY

Paul Levy lives in Concord. A recent AP article in the Monitor (1/4) described Donald Trump’s promise to begin the largest deportation operation in American history even surpassing “Operation Wetback” conducted in 1954 during the Eisenhower...

By JASON OSBORNE

Jason Osborne is the New Hampshire House of Representatives Majority Leader. To say America is divided may be an understatement, and the idea of national Republican and Democrat leaders coming together on one stage to have a civil conversation about...

By MIKE MOFFETT

State Representative Mike Moffett (R-Loudon) is a former Marine Corps officer and retired professor. He chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veteran Affairs. It seemed Ronald Reagan’s political career was over in early 1980....

By JONAH ORION WHEELER

State representative Jonah Orion Wheeler lives in Peterborough. Even before the November decision in ConVal School District v. State of New Hampshire, I filed House Bill 1583 seeking to codify the base adequacy increase that the ConVal plaintiffs...

By JOHN M. RODGERS

John Rodgers lives in Sunapee. My mother passed away a year ago at a for-profit hospital in southeastern New Hampshire. A doctor called just after 10 p.m. to tell me a nurse had found her, it was likely a cardiac arrest, they would be moving her body....