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UPDATES to include Rep. Annie Kuster’s statement. Rep. Shea-Porter: “This decision is morally wrong and cruel. It also would hurt our economy, which is why a wide range of American businesses are speaking out. I agree with Speaker Paul Ryan: decisions about the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program should be made by Congress.”
“We need to come together to win together,” U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.
A drive along the back roads of New Hampshire’s rural areas from the North Country to the state’s southwest shows another Granite State with families caught in the cycle of poverty, workers stuck in low-paying jobs with little room for advancement, opioid addiction and alcoholism eating at society’s fabric and little state help to change it.
This year, most New Hampshire students reported during the last week of August, with many colleges and universities following suit. By the time you read this column, hotels and motels, campgrounds, restaurants, amusement parks, golf courses, and others will have lost many of their bellmen, housekeepers, waiters, maintenance crews, etc.—thereby affecting the flow of business during an extended period of favorable weather.
CAROLYN HUTTON: It takes a great deal of energy to keep things from falling apart.
JOYFUL MUSINGS: Julia, myself and a British colleague once drove to Austria to go skiing. We imagined ourselves on a talk show entitled, “Not Beyond the Car” and stories were told, secrets shared – and at one point we all sung our own National Anthems as an intro to the program.
InDepthNH.org celebrates our second anniversary by debuting Wayne D. King’s new column: The View from Rattlesnake Ridge: Ruminations of an Unabashed Optimist, an Environmental Patriot and a Radical Centrist. “It was Kurt Vonnegut, one of my favorite writers, who said that the United States needed a ‘Secretary of the Future.'”
I knew we would make it thanks to all of you.
To say I am disappointed in your decision to print a letter that is totally a character assassination is an understatement.