Local voices chime in on a variety of topics.
Tibby is alive, but in need of a new home, after her owners decided to surrender her. Her operation, which was expected to cost about $7,000, is being financed through Spike’s Fund, the MSPCA-Angell’s charity for homeless pets.
The handwritten letter was from Eric G. who was born in Rollinsford, NH, and claimed his mother died in a one-car crash when he was only six months old. Eric said he knew nothing about his mother’s family because his father had taken him out of state immediately after his mother’s death. He and his father lived all over the U. S., eventually finding their way to California, where he committed murder and was likely to spend his life in prison.
I recommend this book to everyone, especially if you love Nicholas Sparks. I also recommend this book to hopeless romantics, like myself.
See, George Copadis has been trying to bribe me into doing a column about Glendi, the big Greek festival that begins on Friday, but you’ll be happy to know I didn’t surrender my journalistic integrity for a couple pieces of baklava. No sir. I held out for some finikia, too.
It saddens me to see the decay of democracy over the past decade due to the shift of power from the Board to the Office of the Mayor. The previous system of checks and balances served Manchester well in the time I was an alderman. The City’s successful transition into a modern economy was achieved at a time when there was a proper balance of powers between the Board and the Mayor. It was a system that fostered compromise, the key to a democracy based on promoting the public good.
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Alderman Hirschmann’s opposition to the contract, like his failed tax cap-compliant budget, is based on false economies generated by ideology, not reality. Ward 12 voters should send him back to school to pursue a degree in economics or, failing that, a refresher course in basic math. Voting my friend Keith off the Board will give him the time needed to seek that remedial education.
The cauldron started to bubble in 1919 when, in a front-page story, The Manchester Union reported that, “Good authority says that some members of the school committee are already planning to institute measures designed to clear the schools of married teachers taken on during the war period.”
Addiction touches everyone. People are dying and we need all the help we can get. If you won’t support Hillary, I hope you will support your candidate of choice to wake up and address this critical issue.
By now you may be aware that I filed a complaint with the City of Manchester over several Aldermen who I felt have decided to make choices not in the best interest of our city. I filed my complaint on Friday, September 4th at City Hall.
Can you get at least 10 right on this pop culture quiz? Then congratulations; you’re what we call ‘city literate.’
One of the main problems, and a primary factor in Governor Hassan’s veto, is that the Republican majority in the legislature is trying to push an ideological tax cut that would have an enormous impact on the budget’s future, and seriously hurt our ability to fund the state going into the 2020s. The problem isn’t just about what these needless cuts will do now, it’s about what they’ll still be doing a decade from now.
I met Larry soon after I started volunteering. After avoiding shelters for most of my life on the fear the experience would be too depressing, I decided to help homeless pets as a way to honor Charlie, my black cat.
Question: School’s almost back in session and between the school supply sales and the almost chilly nights I find myself feeling renewed. I am ready to double down on my diet, start my meditation training I have been putting off, and keep my top desk drawer neat and organized. Trouble is that by September 23 it will all go back to being what it was before. Are there any ways to stick with good intentions so that they last longer than one pencil sharpening?
Let’s face it, the old Queen City hasn’t been the same since the last roller coaster rider tossed his Moxie on the Midway at Pine Island more than 50 years ago.
After an anxious week of false alarms – a week in which hopes had been raised and dashed almost hourly – a radio flash at 7:03 p.m. caught the ear of an unknown soldier. He jumped from his table at the Puritan Restaurant and stepped onto Elm Street. His cry, according to newspaper accounts filed by Cpl. Norman Leighton, was simple: ”The war is over!”
Why is the Teachers Union so angry at our current Mayor simply because he is representing the majority of the people in this city?
It is the responsibility of the Mayor to present a fiscally responsible budget year after year. It is the responsibility of the Mayor to be a good steward of the taxpayers dollars. It is the responsibility of the Mayor to not obligate taxpayers, and other boards, to a future of recovering from reckless spending. This is the commitment I have made to the taxpayers of Manchester, one that I do not take lightly and one that I will never ignore – to do so would be irresponsible.
Letter from a recent Central High School grad on the Mayor’s veto of the teachers’ contract.