Posts by Dave Solomon
Voters in the state’s second-largest city will head to the polls on Nov. 7 for the first contested mayoral election since 2015, when attorney Jim Donchess, a Democrat, soundly defeated Republican Chris Williams, who at the time had served eight years as president of the Nashua Chamber of Commerce.
As employers struggle to fill vacant positions, they are having to offer higher wages to recruit new employees. But what about the incumbents? What about the employees who have faithfully stood by their employer through the disruptions of COVID?
The classic New England town meeting, a form of government unique to our region, was considered by Norman Rockwell to be one of the purest expressions of free speech, immortalized in his famous series “The Four Freedoms.”
The goals of Soar to Success, in both academic and social terms, reflect concerns about a trend that has been difficult to document statistically, but that is intuitively and anecdotally understood by educators across the spectrum. Several months of online learning have been a setback academically and socially for many students at all grade levels.
Efforts to increase video recording of law enforcement interactions are underway, beginning with the state police.
A state commission recommended more oversight and training, but did not recommend that school resource officers be removed.
“The painful reality that I hope I can get you to see is that without my suit, I am just a black man … and that can be a dangerous thing to be in this country and in this state. We all have work to do to confront and change this reality.” – Attorney Julian Jefferson
A long list of changes to the way New Hampshire police are recruited, trained, supervised and held accountable is about to move from the recommendation stage to implementation, with potentially far-reaching consequences for law enforcement and the public at large.
In its final installment of a year-long examination of the project, the Granite State News Collaborative set out to determine where that money has gone and what it has accomplished. A year into the two-year program, reviews are mixed.