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When it comes to managing other people’s conflict I heard a great line this week: “Not my circus, not my monkeys.” While this is a cute mental image it reminds me that the conflict other people have rarely has anything to do with us, even when they try to make it about us.
I run for all who wish for a leader who represents them in our city government and is willing to take a leadership role in preserving the city we as citizens have come to love and enjoy.
Our children are not well emotionally, psychologically, and physically, and those most responsible for their well-being – teachers and parents – have not been provided with a way to look at the problem.
What we have learned this week is that our lawmakers aren’t opposed to bending over backwards to protect some of our vulnerable citizens, those being the employees of Planet Fitness corporate headquarters.
Truthiness means that someone has a gut feeling that something is true. It’s my gut feeling that Patrick Arnold used whatever influence he had with the Board of School Committee (BOSC) to push the unprecedented tax cap-busting school budget.
The Gabby Dog is ready for summer, stockpiling books with animal magnetism – some great suggestions here, for book lovers, dog lovers, cat lovers and, well, everyone.
Memorial Day is a day to remember that the losses of war are permanent and far reaching, and can never be undone.
For five years now, Congressman Frank Guinta has been lying to the people of New Hampshire’s First Congressional District. In 2010, Guinta’s campaign finance reports showed an additional $355,000 deposit that he said was from a “savings account he forgot about.”
The War on Drugs is creating and ensuring addiction, not preventing it. The very people that the system purports to help only become further entangled in their trauma and misery. Time to call a ceasefire.
Former NH Speaker Bill O’Brien is taking his extreme agenda on the road to South Carolina this week. Speaking at the South Carolina Freedom Summit, O’Brien openly mocked his own party and their choice for a Presidential nominee (see video above).
A Reader wants to know if long-term pot smoking has made his co-workers dangerously crazy, or if it’s just ‘the New Hampshire way.’ Read on for Dr. Brady’s thoughtful response.
The Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce recently joined together to advocate for the NH Senate to restore funding in the Governor’s budget that would allow the State to continue pursuing passenger rail in southern NH along the Capitol Corridor.
Last year, more than 70 million pounds of food were collected during the Stamp Out Hunger drive, making this the 11th consecutive year that collections reached over the 70-million-pound mark.
Wild, wild horses: The Bureau of Land Management has mismanaged its obligation to the mustangs and wild burros and capitulated to economic pressure from cattle ranchers who want to use the public lands for private profits.
The people that want to see this bill pass are parents of drug users who are desperate to keep their children alive one more day, in the hopes that a bed will open up at a treatment center, or the next paycheck will cover treatment. May they be granted the right to keep their children alive one more day, in the interest of a better tomorrow?
Engagement may also lead us to want to participate in making the changes that can only be done in the voting booth. Civic pride is key, but we need to have a responsive government for #MHT to move forward.
Uber’s pursuit of profits must not be allowed to take precedence over public safety.
On Uber experience: I realized I was being driven around by a neighbor, albeit a neighbor living on the other side of the river. I felt connected to Manchester, and I thought, ‘This is really what ‘community’ is all about.”
I’ll spend the first part of the session training to be a lobbyist. Then in the afternoon, I meet with my state representatives and ask for their support helping animals.