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Voices of the personalities and people of the Granite State.
STRAIGHT TALK: Regardless of political party, privacy rights are important to all of us, as they should be in a free country. We especially don’t want the government to be able to invade our privacy, to follow us around, or to potentially deny us our rights.
In a celebration of Community Libraries and the Arts, Rumney artist Wayne King’s “Photoexpressionist Mindscapes,” a collection of his images combining photography, painting and digital manipulation, will be on display for the final week of August in two libraries: Rumney and Lincoln.
Bob LaPree: ” … we all piled into several vehicles and dashed up the interstate arriving an hour before the beginning of the show – this is why it’s called ‘eclipse chasing.'”
Power to the People: Experiencing the Kancamagus Highway via motorcycle is exhilarating. But what would provide year-round excitement is longterm savings on my energy bill through the achievement of a dream officially sanctioned by the Public Utilities Commission last year – that of all cost-effective energy efficiency.
Readers are introduced to some very interesting characters who play the lawyer’s game of hide and seek. Who is the whistleblower?
It is absolutely pathetic that the Union Leader editorial staff cares so little about the state beyond the Manchester environs that they have written such a simplistic misinformed editorial such as “Northern Pass: It’s all about aesthetics.”
Encore and Features Editor Kathleen Palmer is the latest to be laid off at The Telegraph of Nashua, leaving some wondering who’s left to put out the newspaper.
But conversely when times are tough, there is little to cushion state government from major shortfalls in cash and when that happens, programs are slashed as in 2011 when state aid to the university and community colleges systems was cut in half.
Dolly McPhaul: In a recent interview on NHPR, Governor Sununu made a number of important statements regarding the Northern Pass (NP) that are incorrect.