Texas is a great state and it certainly has competitive advantages of its own (its beef brisket is admittedly hard to deny). But when it comes to our overall tax climate, our workforce, our communities, and our quality of life – well, don’t mess with the Live Free or Die state.
Tell us how you did with your first day of distraction-free driving?
First stop of the New Hampshire on the Drum Corps International 2015 Summer Music Tour is right here in Manchester.
At the risk of mixing a metaphor, American shoes are as rare as steak tartare. They’re harder to find than the sunken city of Atlantis, a situation that was unfathomable (sorry) in Manchester as recently as 20 years ago.
Consider attending one of two Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team games, as the national team heads to the Granite State for two games in July, in Manchester and Nashua.
After a while – and perhaps this was due to the absence of the National Football – canal suicides developed into a macabre spectator sport.
After 15 years as house barber at Not So Plain Jane’s, Brett Sellingham steps up and brings the city its first high-end gentleman’s shave parlor.
Great event at Barnes & Noble, 3 local authors and a chance to help the West Library recover what was lost in February.
Middy Proulx died in 1983, and one of Manchester’s more fascinating sports stories was buried with him, until now!
If it seems like maybe school isn’t really for boys, it isn’t surprising that some boys find themselves tuning out and turning away from school, or school-like activities, at fairly early ages. And this matters, because boys have higher drop-out rates in high school and enter college at lower rates than girls.
A glimpse inside the world of Pawfleet and a plea for help for Boris Kitty, an ailing anipal.
I say the origins of life in Manchester begin with one of its most hideously spectacular natural wonders.
Senate Republicans would rather show working families that they care more about a few hundred businessmen than 40,000 hard working Granite Staters.
Welcome to a new recurring feature, Reset: Happy is the New 40, a podcast series by Mike Morin, former WZID morning guy, who has been finding his own bliss since retiring in 2014, beyond the airwaves. Now, he will be sharing stories of inspiration, via the Manchester Ink Link podcast airwaves.
I know too much to support a resurgence in horse racing. I’d rather support horses in need, like the ones awaiting adoption through the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign.
Am I for it? Yes, but as a student of Manchester history, I am also quite aware of the mayhem that both freight and passenger trains have rained down on our community in years past.
On June 7 everyone’s invited to Mag-A-Palooza 2015 at Veterans Park, a music festival and Mag-A-Palooza 5K, to celebrate the life of Maggie Philbrook, support those organizations that helped Maggie and her family in their time of need, and honor the memory of one great kid, gone too soon.
When it comes to managing other people’s conflict I heard a great line this week: “Not my circus, not my monkeys.” While this is a cute mental image it reminds me that the conflict other people have rarely has anything to do with us, even when they try to make it about us.
I run for all who wish for a leader who represents them in our city government and is willing to take a leadership role in preserving the city we as citizens have come to love and enjoy.
Our children are not well emotionally, psychologically, and physically, and those most responsible for their well-being – teachers and parents – have not been provided with a way to look at the problem.