Catholics
Vaccine Hesitancy and The Flip Side
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Sectarianism is the bane of organized religion. A group of people becomes disenchanted with the entrenched powers.
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Passing the Torch . . . and Harrigan’s Legendary Camp
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In this podcast John Harrigan recalls the serendipity of securing the land, tearing down the old camp – injudiciously placed in a swampy area too close to the water and falling down after years of deferred maintenance.
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Distant Dome: It Didn’t Have To Be This Way
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Remember a couple of months ago when everyone was looking for a nearly normal summer.
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Synchronized Swimming With a Team of One and a Wedding
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When I visit my friend, Anne in Newbury, Massachusetts, I like to keep things simple: no great fanfare, no complicated plans, no agenda that requires reservations or a parking slip
Business & Economy
Roger Wood Talks Housing Stability With Katy Easterly Martey
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New Hampshire’s hot housing market has made it difficult at best for those left behind. Evictions, substandard housing and homelessness are still plaguing this rich state. A panel called the Counsel on Housing Stability has released its first report seeking solutions to the issue. it is part of a three year effort. The Counsel, appointed by the governor, has as its goal 13,500 new housing units in the state within the next three years. Katy Easterly Martey is a member of that council; she is executive director of the New Hampshire community development finance authority.
Business & Economy
Restoring the ‘Redwoods of the East’- the American Chestnut
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Doug McLane is a resident of Plymouth and in my view one of New Hampshire’s environmental heroes. His work in the battle to halt climate change is well-known and acknowledged, but he has also been deeply immersed in the fight to restore the American Chestnut.
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Toward A Fairer Distribution of Wealth
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Some days as I ramble the fields and hills of the White Mountains I find myself pondering all the mistakes we have made as a nation in what we have always hoped would be the path to a “more perfect union.”
Bill Gardner
Voting Rights and Elections Need Attention
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New Hampshire stood out on a recently published map of states changing voting laws to expand restrictions. It was the only state in the Northeastern part of the country to do so, while the other states making changes were in the south and in the west.
Bianca Mireles
Colorful Mural To Unite People in Rochester
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Today I muse joyfully on the mural in progress on the wall of the Salvation Army in Rochester.