Local voices chime in on a variety of topics.
If First Amendment rights to freedom of speech exist within the public school setting, is it logical to believe that public school employees lose their rights to free speech outside of their employment? I am concerned that a reporter and two school board members are so unacquainted with the rights of free speech.
A duck rescued and nurtured by residents of a California nursing home is in federal lock up. The story of Juanita the duck.
Every day, the heroin and opioid crisis is ending lives, devastating futures, and pulling apart families across New Hampshire. Wednesday I will vote to ask New Hampshire lawmakers to return to the State House for a special session to take swift action to address this issue.
‘Manchester needs a leader who has the experience, ability, and temperament to bring people together to solve the many challenges facing our community, and that’s why I am running for Mayor.’
By putting taxpayers first we have achieved great things: economic development is thriving, public safety is a priority, we have created new public private partnerships in our schools for our students and we are addressing the heroin epidemic head on and emerging a leader on solutions.
In their heyday – from 1947 to 1950 – midget racers buzzed around the banked, asphalt oval just south of Grenier Field on Sunday nights, emitting a roar that made Manchester a major motorhead mecca. OK, the track was in Londonderry. What the owners lacked in geography, they made up for in their ability to market the midgets.
Why wouldn’t we want to give our children access to this resource as part of their public education?
While I would like to sign your Statement of Principles, I find myself with more questions than answers, assertions without reference, a school district that has struggled for years with its existing pre-school program, the questionable results of the Head Start program nationwide and the opinions and analyses of many experts that don’t agree with the solutions proposed by your organization to the issues raised.
A letter arrived from the same prison, stamped STATE PRISON GENERATED MAIL, with the name of a different prisoner in the return address. One of the drawbacks of writing to strangers in prison is the lack of privacy behind bars. I wondered if my name and address would one day be passed around the cellblock by Eric, with or without his knowledge. This letter was from John G. and said that Eric had been held in the infirmary due to a mental health issue.
This is not a joke. In recent years, more and more people have been planning their own funerals. According to mortician Steve Skiles, who’s been doing these types of funerals for years, ”It’s a way of saying, ‘Hey world, I may be dead but I’m not gone.”’