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Voices of the personalities and people of the Granite State.
One of the speeches Sam gave touched me deeply in its honesty and uplifting advice. Sam lives with Duchenne muscular dystrophy characterized by progressive muscle degeneration, and he has already outlived his life expectancy.
We teach that we were liberated not because we were powerful, but because we worshipped the truth.
But while one business tax is producing significant revenue surpluses and the other is producing less than budget writers anticipated and that is important.
So, as I’d grabbed my Norton Anthology of Poetry for the trip, I ate M&M’s and I read poetry out loud to pass the hours.
I saw a hawk this morning using the wind to coast, to flow, to float, to rise above some rocks.
After COVID-19 struck two years ago, most of us were in quarantine. People left their houses only in the event of dire emergency, while they shopped, sought medical advice, attended hybrid meetings, and became educated from the comfort of home.
50 Years ago, Dudley Dudley, with a small dedicated group of women, led the fight to stop the development of the largest Oil Refinery proposed for development in America from destroying the Seacoast of NH, Maine and Massachusetts. . . and they won.
Andy Marsjanik did not get to finish his book. His sister, Amy Marsjanik Law, and Jeff Deck, a well-known New Hampshire author, took up the unfinished manuscript, notes, chapter titles and have given us a 3D version of who Andy was and why his story needs telling, to be remembered, and to be passed along.
Redrawing the state’s boundaries for the Congressional, Executive Council, state Senate and state House seats is a political process, but it should not be a millstone on the balance of power.