Letters: City Planning Board Demonstrates Bias
read more…: Letters: City Planning Board Demonstrates BiasThe Planning Board for the City of Manchester does not represent the taxpaying residents of the city, and favors big business.
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Let’s revisit business secrecy exemptions as Energy Week meets Sunshine Week
read more…: Let’s revisit business secrecy exemptions as Energy Week meets Sunshine WeekThis is both Sunshine Week and Energy Week in New Hampshire – a very happy confluence.
Z1 is WRONG for Wellington Road and does not BELONG
read more…: Z1 is WRONG for Wellington Road and does not BELONGThe proposal for a 24/7 16-pump Z-1 Express gas station and convenience store plus a donuts shop at 55 Edward J Roy Drive and Wellington Road is going for a second vote with the planning board on March 15. The first vote was a 3 to 3 tie vote. The question is how the 3 votes for yes happened.
The existential void of the 3-year-old boy (or a trip down memory lane under the vast indifference of heaven)
read more…: The existential void of the 3-year-old boy (or a trip down memory lane under the vast indifference of heaven)In short, these first memories tend to be snippets, little pieces of pre-story that have randomly stuck to the brain like sawdust to sneakers. Once folks have answered my question and returned from their fugue states, they often ask me about my first memory. Here’s what I tell them.
An open letter to fellow parents and guardians of the Manchester school community
read more…: An open letter to fellow parents and guardians of the Manchester school communityWalking out of school will not solve anything or create real change that is needed. That real change starts with one’s own heart … the real change starts IN our school, not outside of the schools.
Downright Funky: Currier Museum’s Side Door Music Series, like a speakeasy with cool paintings on the wall
read more…: Downright Funky: Currier Museum’s Side Door Music Series, like a speakeasy with cool paintings on the wallKiller Heels exhibitions, Moulin Rouge shows, and now, come Friday night, a couple really fantastic national performers named Will Porter and Carmen Nickerson will take to the stage of the 185 seat music hall inside the museum.
How homophobia keeps men and women inside their gender and robs us of our freedom
read more…: How homophobia keeps men and women inside their gender and robs us of our freedomI believe that our world will be that much greater when we are allowed to act how we authentically feel, based on our decisions about what is right for us in our current context. Conversations about the decoupling of sex and gender, and of gender and sexual orientation, are a big part of how we can move closer to that better world.
The simple math of drugs, and figuring out how to exit your escape vehicle
read more…: The simple math of drugs, and figuring out how to exit your escape vehicleWhenever I put any substance into my body, it was always simply a Keith Escape Vehicle (KEV). Because I am who I am (and that’s all who I am), I can turn a lot of different things into KEVs – spending, sex, travel, work. For today, for this minute at least, I’m trying to relax into being Keith instead of grabbing the keys and jumping into a KEV.
No more crises because that’s all life is
read more…: No more crises because that’s all life isI don’t relate this to embarrass Larissa or anyone else who’s struggling to find a way to struggle to quit drinking. I danced that same dance for years, making a decision to quit drinking and believing that decision was the same as accomplishing the goal.
It’s tax time for NH utility customers
read more…: It’s tax time for NH utility customersWhile we are all working on our individual tax returns, there are some important developments brewing on the taxation front with respect to public utilities. They all come down to this ineluctable reality: Utilities don’t pay taxes, ratepayers do.