Local voices chime in on a variety of topics.
I enlisted in the Air Force 39 years ago. I’m one of three members of my immediate family who proudly served our country. I’m a disabled veteran with a spinal cord injury and HB 1283 greatly alarms me!
In 2020, New Hampshire’s Black population was recorded as roughly 21,000 people, according to census data; that’s about 2% of the total population of the state. If there are 21,000 Black people in the Granite State, one has to assume that there are 21,000 ways to be Black.
We already have a climate curriculum in our public schools, but it was designed years ago – things have changed since then. So why do we need a change now?
For some reason, I experience a vast amount of existential dread—a fear of an eternal abyss—while driving to work each morning.
Peter Noonan is a designer, award-winning illustrator, cartoonist and fine artist. His work has appeared in schools, private collections and publications throughout the country, and here on Manchester Ink Link since 2016, or whenever the candidates stir things up. Rated O for opinionated.
Voting Day Tuesday, so I better get out and pay witness to the wasteland, where gas prices have soared into the $4-5 dollar range, so we are told, where everyone is bare-assed broke, famished, desperate for a break from the blistering grind of a busted economy.
What NH needed to hear Republican candidates debate this week is how they’ll use conservative politics and ideology to address climate change.
For some reason, I still have all my report cards. Why? Not sure. But back in the day, in Philadelphia at least, report cards were printed, and the teachers had to fill in the “As” and “B’s” and actually write (using cursive) their comments for parents. I chose this particular report card to share to demonstrate what was being evaluated back in the day as well as to examine my fourth-grade teacher’s comments (You’ll note I wrote in my own penciled comments in the blank Third Report area.
And I planned to vote for Ralph Nader for president. That was until I stepped into the voting booth and stiffened with terror at the thought of Bush winning. I wanted to vote my heart and my conscience, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. There was too much at stake.
So I plugged my nose and voted for Gore.
In 2024, New Hampshire voters have at least five choices for their next governor. My choice is Jon Kiper.