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The Soapbox: Taxpayers should be outraged at what the Education Freedom Accounts have become

read more…: The Soapbox: Taxpayers should be outraged at what the Education Freedom Accounts have become

New Hampshire taxpayers have every right to be angry. While we are told the state “cannot afford” to meet its constitutional obligation to public education, tens of millions of dollars are quietly being drained from the Education Trust Fund to subsidize private, religious, and homeschooling families who were never in our public schools to begin with.

Simply enjoying Christmas

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I love the Christmas season! I love Christmas! As a follower of Jesus, I celebrate His birth as well as the Hope that He brings to our crazy world, but I also recognize that Christmas has become more of a cultural and commercial holiday. I myself celebrate Christmas in part by buying gifts, attending plays and celebrations, and watching movies, (including those that have the “magic of Christmas”). I just stay grounded and keep Jesus at the center of everything that I do around the holiday – I remember it is really about His birth. 

Small business and being online at the end of the world

read more…: Small business and being online at the end of the world

I lost my job because of an online customer review. I don’t know the person’s name who wrote it, and I’ll never get to tell them what happened to me because of it. The person who fired me didn’t want to – she told me straightforwardly, “it’s my boss’s decision, I have no choice.” Her boss, if I know her at all, would also probably say, “it’s a business issue- nothing against you, but I have no choice.” 

The Soapbox: Santa says shift to reusables like paper, cardboard, glass, aluminum and metal

read more…: The Soapbox: Santa says shift to reusables like paper, cardboard, glass, aluminum and metal

Plastic pollution begins with production. Our Manchester Coca-Cola Company is fueled by good intentions, its corporate purpose ‘to refresh the world’. It helps mitigate the impacts of climate change by ‘using 35% to 40% recycled material in our primary packaging, including increasing recycled plastic use to 30% or 35% globally, as well as collecting 70% to 75% of the number of bottles and cans introduced into the market annually’. Yet, harnessing 100,000 to 150,000 gallons of  water daily from the industry’s primary source, the Merrimack River, for the purpose of beverage production, would seemingly put the river at risk.

The Urban Hippie: Generation Who?

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Instead of Howdy Doody we had Scooby Do. We heard all about Woodstock and the Summer of Love but watched the Watergate hearings on TV with our Mom and raced home every day after school to watch Dark Shadows. My older siblings loved Bandstand and the Jerry Blavet show on our local Philly TV stations. My little sister and I watched Soul Train. One of my older siblings and I compared our childhood experiences once and realized they were nothing alike. It was like we were raised in two different families. And by two different sets of parents.

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