Local voices chime in on a variety of topics.
Last weekend, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to eliminate the funding source for Social Security that hundreds of thousands of Granite State seniors rely on to pay for things like medical prescriptions and rent. Governor Sununu and Trump’s GOP cronies have remained silent, but Granite Staters can’t.
Please vote absentee ballot and keep everyone safe.
What our teachers desperately need right now are leaders in charge who understand the challenges they face. They need leaders who listen to our health experts as an unprecedented pandemic continues to claim lives. They deserve leaders who put their safety and their students’ safety first.
I have great concern about Bike Week August 22-30, 2020. During this COVID 19 pandemic we should not be allowing events of this size in NH. Since our current Governor will not put out a mask mandate, I fear that during Bike Week, the many visitors from other states will bring COVID-19 into New Hampshire.
I have a lot of questions about the nature of the vitriolic language that has been used to describe teachers who are asking valid and hard questions about the safety of our schools. The first and most important is this: Do we realize that everything that makes our schools extraordinary are our teachers? When we shame them, we shame our schools, and when we shame our schools, we shame our children.
When schools moved to remote learning in March, children impacted by disability faced difficult challenges due to the sudden change in schedule and loss of familiar routines and therapies. This triggered regression in behavior and loss of language and motor skills, so for those families to be able to use their experiences to ask direct questions and have them answered by school officials was a great benefit.
The truth is that we’re not returning to any sense of normalcy until there’s a vaccine to combat this bitch called COVID-19, and even then it will take time — and a concerted effort from the federal government — to assure everyone is inoculated.
Often associated with a “Valley of The Dolls”-type of quality, the Warner Brothers 1965 film “Inside Daisy Clover,” generally receives a somewhat worthy bad rap for it’s inflated acting and overall camp. It “is” a bit overacted, it “is” a bit campy, it could even teeter on cult-ish. However, once you’ve come to that acceptance, then Daisy doesn’t hurt so much.
I looked at the dog, and the dog looked back at me with these droopy, watery eyes. Listen, I’m not a complete curmudgeon — of course he was cute. Puppies are cute. But it was beside the point that my wishes had been blatantly ignored, and now this tiny pug would live in my house and undermine my authority.
Gary Tibbetts was my friend and he will be missed.