Local voices chime in on a variety of topics.
And today, as I sit at my desk awaiting my new desk calendar, clothed like an Eskimo, I look to 2020 and I see my 50th birthday approaching around the bend and I plan to paint the squares of the New Year like a graffiti artist might a bare wall at midnight, marking up the hours of my days and nights.
I’ve decided it’s time to buy a home, preferably one with running hot and cold water, a flush toilet and more than the box’s 72 square feet, of which fewer than 27 square feet is floor space. I don’t think that’s too much to ask.
No, what really and truly galls and angers me is a single sentence, used as the headline for the piece: “What is critical for our community to understand is that relapse is part of the recovery process.” No, my friends, that is exactly what we in the recovery community know to be false, misleading, and potentially fatal for anyone who puts it into practice.
The Governor’s plan, which he announced in conjunction with Democrats on October 30 of this year, is shored up by two LSRs (HB 1629 and HB 1632). One bill would make zoning for low-income or high-density housing mandatory while forcing zoning and planning boards to accept training in the philosophy of “new urbanism” — an internationally-bred fad that has invaded the country. The other bill would give more tax breaks to developers for building specific types of projects.
“It is not the relapse that is newsworthy. What is newsworthy is that there are community-based service providers, like Granite Pathways, that do not judge and are willing to re-engage with individuals in recovery whenever and wherever they are ready. Every time.”
Q&A with Boston-based singer/songwriter Chris Trapper, performing at Jupiter Hall Dec. 13.
Groundbreaking, inspirational, trailblazing, beautiful — all words that have been used to describe the iconic Diahann Carroll. The Grammy Award,
The 2019 NHIAA Football Season is over, champions have been crowned and it’s time to discuss the 2020 season and something some people may not want to think about.
As a former public school teacher, Elizabeth Warren understands the struggles our students and educators face and what is needed to redefine education for our next generation. Her hands-on experience and judgment are what we need to redefine how education could look for the next generation of American students.
November was a horrendous month for me. My mom died suddenly on Veteran’s Day – 89 years old with Alzheimer’s but otherwise stable health. Expected eventually but a numbing shock all the same. My dad followed three days later, some random point in his long, slow, steady decline. The three days between their deaths and my knowledge that neither knew anything about the other’s last days has been eerie and almost mystical.