Posts by John Angelo
After flirting with .500, the Double A New Hampshire Fisher Cats have dropped four straight at home to the Somerset Patriots, the Yankees Double A affiliate. They’ll be home through June 26 with the Altoona Curve chugging in next.
If it was a thousand miles into the woods, it’s going to be a thousand miles out. The problem of homelessness is complicated. Alcohol, drugs, mental illness and the ever-widening gap between the haves and the have-nots are just four issues.
With 18 home games scheduled for June, including seven against the first-place Somerset Patriots (Yankees), this month will be a stiff test for your Double-A Eastern League New Hampshire Fisher Cats.
English can be an amusing and sometimes dangerous language in the hands of advertising Mad Men, business owners, or a verbally dyslexic columnist such as moi. While ads for the Chevy Nova were met with chuckles in Puerto Rico 60 years ago, one doesn’t have to leave the Manchester environs to get the business funny for your money:
It was 50 years ago this month that I first set foot in the White Mountains. To be more accurate, it was 50 years ago that my cold wet squishy-sneakered feet and my jeans got absolutely drenched in several streams in the White Mountains.
This month I offer you a quiz. You have to identify whether each name listed is: A. a True Value Hardware interior paint color; B. an IPA or local alcoholic drink, or; C. a stakes-winning thoroughbred racehorse.
Dean Kamen thought that it was, is or will be a good idea to donate the red phone box in Manchester’s City Hall Plaza as part of the area’s 1999 renovation.
Others see the affordable housing crisis as directly affecting their stability even as they work and volunteer within New Hampshire communities. Briefly looking at three of those populations who might not be thought of as being affected by housing insecurity and the lack of affordable housing might help explain why the housing crisis leaves many on the outside looking in. These three groups are those with intellectual or developmental disabilities (ID/DD), those with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and abuse survivors attempting to flee their abusers.
Columnist John Angelo has compiled a soundtrack for the city, anthems for favorite landmarks. Do you have any to add?
“There is no way anyone should be building without 5 to 10 percent devoted to affordable housing or making a donation.” – Schonna Green