Next act for Club Liquid: Sink-hole or Downtown oasis?

Sunday, January 19, 2025Friday, March 4, 2016

This week we take a look at 23 Amherst St., the former Rex Theatre, and more recently Club Liquid bar-pit. The City of Manchester – via the affiliated Manchester Development Corporation (MDC) – has issued a Request For Proposals (RFP) to buy-develop the site. The MDC did a good thing to acquire the property and offer it for redevelopment, or else it may have deteriorated indefinitely, as it is definitely a “challenging” property. Today I offer my 2 cents.

‘The devilish hoods of racism’

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Trump dominates the news cycle and provides plenty of fodder for editorial cartoonist Peter Noonan. Rated O for Opinionated.

McQuaid’s mea culpa

Sunday, January 19, 2025Tuesday, March 1, 2016

McQuaid should feel embarrassed. Not only did he endorse a dishonest candidate, but that dishonest candidate has now fully embraced the guy who went out of his way to make mincemeat of McQuaid in a bitter and very public tit-for-tat battle of the egos. And in all of this, The Union Leader failed to do the one thing it’s supposed to do: Inform readers.

‘American journalism, once more, asleep at the pen’

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Monday, February 29, 2016

It’s salty and irreverent, yes – just like Election 2016! Don’t shoot the messenger; Peter Noonan just draws’em as he sees’em.

Manchester’s Chase Homes: Affordable Housing for a ‘Wonderful Life’

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Monday, February 29, 2016

It should come as no surprise that there were 800 applicants for the 30 new homes, since the going rate was $5.50 a week — no down payment — and to be on the safe side, the association also covered the cost of a $3,000 insurance policy on the man of the house “in order to safeguard widow and children in the event that calamity befall the breadwinner before the house is fully cleared.”

In memoriam: Remembering good works and good people

Sunday, January 19, 2025Monday, February 29, 2016

Three colleagues – and three of their “wins” – are the focus of this tribute. Each win was toward a better future for their community, and was realized working alongside many others. Sadly, each of these good people left us in the past year.

‘The Donald Strings Us Along’

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Friday, February 26, 2016

Politics with a side of satire, from Manchester editorial cartoonist Peter Noonan.

Beyond walls: Let’s solve addiction before we raise another generation of broken adults

Monday, September 23, 2024Friday, February 26, 2016

This is a problem that can’t be fixed overnight, and maybe not in the next presidency, but if a 24 year-old from New Hampshire can understand and explain some of the basic issues connected to this crisis, we need to expect the leaders of our country to do so also, instead of sticking to narrow-minded pipe dreams for their own political benefit. This isn’t a partisan issue. This is a common sense issue. And it is also an issue of life or death for the millions of Americans struggling with opioid dependence.

Frank, (part 3): One of the many forgotten prisoners languishing in a dismal system

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Thursday, February 25, 2016

American prisons are supposed to be a cut above those of the Middle East, the Far East or in parts of Europe. Unless our system of justice works to protect and defend the rights of all citizens, incarcerated or not, we are no better than the countries who openly condone corruption.

Currier hit home run 65 years ago with gift of this beguiling Picasso

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Wednesday, February 24, 2016

“There’s no passivity when you look at a Picasso,” agreed Susan Strickler, who is the soon-to-retire director of the Currier. “You may not always love it, but it provokes a reaction. That’s what Picasso did.”