Local voices chime in on a variety of topics.
Right now personal protective equipment – and social distancing – is all that stands between us and “it.”
Stacy Harrison felt compelled to go toward the fire and capture the moment.
Please take care of each other, your families and your communities, and focus on being safe and healthy.  For 49 years we’ve done well by doing good. Let’s keep that going together.
While calls to the National Parent Helpline for families in crisis have spiked 30 percent in the past week, New Hampshire’s Division for Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) is starting to see a drop in calls reporting suspected abuse or neglect. Other states are seeing this too. I wish that were good news, but it is likely not.
Our immediate challenge is this: complying with CDC recommendations such as social distancing, isolation and quarantine is impossible for people experiencing homelessness. While some smaller shelters may have 1 or 2 spaces available for some sort of isolation, most shelters simply do not have the extra space availability to appropriately isolate those who may be highly vulnerable or symptomatic and awaiting test results.
Each caller was candid about how they’re managing life during the musical drought inspired by the Coronavirus. Some were more upbeat than others. Some hid the despair better than others. And some just didn’t give a fuck. Instead of taking a mental pounding from the fear and consternation, they just started writing new songs, they said, peeling through the unfinished numbers and piecing that shit together. Hit the ground running with a new bag of tricks when life resumes, which, by all indications by our President, you’ll be back to work before the big spike hits.
I know we aren’t the doctors or nurses on the front lines, I would never be so egotistical. They are the heroes. No question. But those people are respected and their sacrifices are known. We are the little guys, the people who clock in and out each day and make $13 an hour. We are just “there,” opening boxes, cashiering, filling drive-up orders. We are vulnerable and people need to realize this.Â
Every day an estimated 11,500 people – people vulnerable with respiratory illnesses and preexisting conditions – die from outdoor air pollution. Yet life continues to go on while carbon emissions continue to be pumped into our atmosphere every single day, killing tens of thousands of people across the world.
A working musician, unlike other musicians with full-time jobs, are the ones who’ve thrown caution to the wind and listened to their muse, believed in it, followed it, believed in their own craft, in themselves, believed in you, the listeners, hoping that you would believe in them and help keep the dream alive. And the bills paid.
Dear Governor Sununu and Secretary Edelblut: During these unprecedented times, we have all needed to take unprecedented measures. Since last