Local voices chime in on a variety of topics.
These individuals are the homeless youth in our city. Homeless youth often attend school, hold jobs, and go about their lives without people knowing that they are homeless.
Now, it’s time to walk away from one style of writing and toward another.
New Hampshire Youth Movement is calling for young people across the state to show up to the polls on November 8 and tell New Hampshire what kind of state they deserve to live in.
Our American democracy is in trouble. In the past six years, we have watched a full-frontal assault on the objective truth, largely led by an unhinged narcissist propagating The Big Lie that our last presidential election was stolen, rigged to elect President Joe Biden. If you believe this inane falsehood, you might want to stop reading now.
Can we claim to love the beautiful mountains and lakes of NH if we vote for politicians who won’t protect them?
Saint Anselm English Professor Gary Bouchard has penned the entertaining What News Horatio? Dispatches from Beyond the Castle Walls. The book cleverly takes a real newspaper headline such as “Missing Brains Found in Texas” and uses it as a portal for verse that attempts to tell the story behind the headline in a “What dreams may come” style. In other words, he makes it up. Add a pinch of there’s something rotten in Denmark to the telling and the result is both classical and comical.
There are many important issues the State legislature will be asked to address in the next few years, primary among them are education, affordable housing, and health care. To do this, we need fresh perspectives and legislators who can foster productive and civil dialogue and who act in the best interest not only of their constituents, but for all of New Hampshire’s citizens. For this reason, I will vote for June Trisciani for State Senate.
I want to focus on some of the good things that have come from the growth of our city, because I understand that city living is a balance of the good and the bad and because I’m confident that good will overtake the bad.
Election Day is coming up and when you head into the voting booth on November 8 the names at the top of the ballot will be very familiar to you, mostly because of the barrage of TV ads and mailings you have seen over the past few weeks.
When you’ve lost rights, even due to your own actions, you tend to wonder what the actual ramifications are, especially as you mature and become a contributing member of society. Yes, some ex-felons have actually learned their lesson, paid their debt to society, and now want to participate in the law-abiding and tax-paying ecosystem. As a taxpayer, maybe I’m wondering why there are so many potholes on my street and which elected officials can help fix them.