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Linda Upham-Bornstein
Morning over Pliny Range, Lancaster
Voices of the personalities and people of the Granite State.
Sixty-five bucks is what it costs to get through the door of Costco to buy your groceries there for a year. So why, oh why, does the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) think you should have to pay Eversource more than $500 a year just for the privilege of being a customer of the utility?
One day my Aunt Clara said something about her “dresden,” maybe that I should be careful not to touch it. I had no idea what dresden was, but it was apparently in the same cabinet that held her china.
Read your electric bill this month and weep, especially if you are an Eversource customer. But, as labor activist Joe Hill famously counseled, don’t mourn – organize!
I live to collect and examine and find. It’s my passion to hunt, to search for treasures – while thrifting, driving, walking the dog.
As the Democratic party lurches around the landscape searching for ways to matter again, eyes have turned to New York City where a young state assemblyman named Zohran Mamdani wants to be mayor. He recently won the Democratic primary for that seat and people are excited.
A few years ago a controversy arose at UNH over American Sign Language. For a long time the introductory course in it had two or three sections, but suddenly the sections ballooned to eight or ten.
Of the 7,159 living languages in the world that the Ethnologue website now lists, it considers 3,193 to be “endangered,” that is, “It is no longer the norm that children learn and use this language.”
This is especially pertinent to the dollar as the global currency and the legal and military infrastructure that ensures relative stability and the free flow of trade goods between countries.
Baseball games can last a long time but just as often they can end in a hurry. Little League games in particular last six innings and the spectators rarely know the score.