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Voices of the personalities and people of the Granite State.
Construction of New Hampshire’s largest electrical solar array is getting underway in Kingston. Unitil, which serves customers in southeastern New Hampshire, is building the solar farm after getting approval from the Public Utilities Commission.
In truth, we do this in Little League all the time. We always hope the other side does well. We always feel for them, if they don’t
Six weeks after informing company executives of their intent to form a union, workers at the Starbucks store in Rochester voted 10 to 4 on Tuesday to be represented by Workers United, a national union, in negotiations with the Seattle-based coffee giant.
Electricity is really important – it’s an essential commodity these days, and it has grown notably expensive over the past couple of years. Ergo, the annual election at the Electric Co-op is important.
Having walked my fair share of picket lines for The Newspaper Guild, which has provided me with a meager retirement fund, I understand why writers from the Writers’ Guild of America strike. The 2007-2008 strike lasted 100 days. That was a long time to wait for them to get back and gear up again to provide us with the words that, in truth, make whatever show we watch worth it or not.
They called the event a “Sip-In,” held three days before the local Starbucks workers will vote on whether their union will be legally recognized. Alongside the regular customers, union supporters filtered in and placed their orders.
The federal government is broken when 20 or so far right extremists who represent an extremely small portion of the country’s residents, can hold the nation, the economy and the global economy hostage over what was once routine legislation.
Every once in a while you have a moment when the universe whispers, “Hey, you’re in the cool club.” I had this moment when I attended the New Hampshire Association of World Language Teachers Conference in Concord in late March.
I was excited to head back north to some of the rivers that flow into Winnipesaukee after such a successful outing a few weeks before. I felt like I was finally figuring things out. Then the rains came.