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We already have a climate curriculum in our public schools, but it was designed years ago – things have changed since then. So why do we need a change now?
For some reason, I experience a vast amount of existential dread—a fear of an eternal abyss—while driving to work each morning.
Peter Noonan is a designer, award-winning illustrator, cartoonist and fine artist. His work has appeared in schools, private collections and publications throughout the country, and here on Manchester Ink Link since 2016, or whenever the candidates stir things up. Rated O for opinionated.
Voting Day Tuesday, so I better get out and pay witness to the wasteland, where gas prices have soared into the $4-5 dollar range, so we are told, where everyone is bare-assed broke, famished, desperate for a break from the blistering grind of a busted economy.
What NH needed to hear Republican candidates debate this week is how they’ll use conservative politics and ideology to address climate change.
For some reason, I still have all my report cards. Why? Not sure. But back in the day, in Philadelphia at least, report cards were printed, and the teachers had to fill in the “As” and “B’s” and actually write (using cursive) their comments for parents. I chose this particular report card to share to demonstrate what was being evaluated back in the day as well as to examine my fourth-grade teacher’s comments (You’ll note I wrote in my own penciled comments in the blank Third Report area.
And I planned to vote for Ralph Nader for president. That was until I stepped into the voting booth and stiffened with terror at the thought of Bush winning. I wanted to vote my heart and my conscience, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. There was too much at stake.
So I plugged my nose and voted for Gore.
In 2024, New Hampshire voters have at least five choices for their next governor. My choice is Jon Kiper.
It’s clear to me that so many of those serving in the legislature are good and decent people doing their very best to operate within ethical standards. In naming my colleagues here, it is not my goal to malign them but to highlight the need for equal treatment within the legislature. That Rep. Murray was swept up in an ethics investigation suggests a reliance on “gotcha” political games rather than actual accountability.
First, I have to admit that the very first concert I saw with ’tween friends was in 1967 at Philadelphia’s Convention Hall where we screeched and screamed at The Monkees. Of course, a parent drove us and chose not to attend; good choice! And if you’re really interested, here’s a link to the setlist from that concert!
Ideally, I would address these systemic issues by running for a position in the House or Senate. However, the state’s policy of paying representatives and senators just $100 per year means that working-class individuals like me can’t afford to serve in Concord.
The issue of Human trafficking has in recent times come to the forefront and has received more attention and increased awareness thanks to movies such as Angel Studios’, Sound of Freedom.
Yeager, who has been working at Dunkins for two-and-half years now, has been, as he says, “fine-tuning my brand of delivery to lucky coffee drinkers for the last two years.”
Come on. You didn’t think Carolyn Choate, of all people, would miss this annual opportunity to remind you of resolutions needing some serious neuron marinating, did you? Even though only 9% of Americans keep them – according to the National Center for Biotechnology Research – I believe in you! Like I always say, walk a mile in my cells and you’ll reach out for wellness solutions like a life ring on a choppy sea. Squeezing for dear life because, well, your life is dear.
The North American bird population declined by three billion birds between 1970 and 2020 scientists say. Researchers working in a protected forest in New Hampshire found that the number of beetles there had fallen more than 80 percent since the mid-1970s, while the bugs’ diversity has dropped by nearly 40 percent. The staid New York Times noted an “insect Armageddon” with losses in the quintillions. Birds need insects. Georgetown University’s bird researcher and conservationist Dr. Peter Marra says, “You don’t publish a paper on the loss of three billion birds and go back to your day job.”
Well, I had a dream that began a few years ago: To create a calendar featuring my favorite album covers; they had to be someone else’s favorites, too and I could make a bundle. But here it is 2024 and all I’ve done is choose my album covers. What’s stopped me is knowing that the artwork is owned by individual artists/corporations/businesses all of whom own the rights of usage and knowing the endeavor will cost lots of money.
In offering a legislative pay of only $100 per year, we do not invite all walks of life into our so-called “citizen legislature.” Instead, we rely on wealthy elites to address working-class problems. In considering why New Hampshire is the only New England state that has failed to legalize cannabis, or why our legislature is so slow to expand housing and address homelessness, the cause is clear: a volunteer legislature overpopulated by older, wealthy, retired citizens shielded from working-class problems.
We urge the leaders of the City of Manchester not only to maintain all existing bike lanes but also develop plans for their expansion. These plans should aim at connecting existing bike lanes with other important destinations within our city, such as employment, residential areas and commerce, as well as connecting them to the multi-use trail system.
