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NH Legislature Has a Very Different Look
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If you transported a typical New Hampshire resident from the turn of the century into a Legislative committee hearing today, that person would not think it was in the same state.
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If you transported a typical New Hampshire resident from the turn of the century into a Legislative committee hearing today, that person would not think it was in the same state.
Is “ish” a word? Until recently it was only a suffix, first attached to national names (“English, Swedish”), then to various nouns (“selfish, childish”), and then to almost any short adjective, meaning “sort of” or “in a way” (“brownish, youngish”).
What’s more important to New Hampshire: An elite boarding school — or the nonprofit organization that runs all of New England’s high voltage transmission grid, oversees the buying and selling of electricity throughout the six-state region, and keeps our lights on?
The near sacred process of choosing who will be running for what was once considered to be the leader of the free world is about to commence. But this year’s presidential run for the roses feels different than past races.
Author and environmental activist, Jamie Sayen’s latest book speaks about “the failure of conservation in northern New England’s forests.”
I encourage everyone of any age to read “My Friend Anne Frank.” But first please read “The Diary of Anne Frank” and of course the “Diary of Petr Ginz,” the story of a young Jewish boy who lived in Czechoslovakia during World War II and died in Auschwitz at age 16.
So even on the lips of a well-educated speaker, the English subjunctive is a shadow of its former self.
Talk about a gift of realizing the gift that is health, the gift I’ve taken for granted for decades.
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