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Voices of the personalities and people of the Granite State.
When I was serving my first year as a school board member in 2009, President Obama announced plans to make a televised address to American school children. His intent was to encourage them to stay in school, work hard, and plan for their futures.
It’s tough watching him pitch. I have to pay attention at all times so I know why he will either be upset or happy on the ride home. I can’t look away for even one toss.
As Jewish legislators in New Hampshire, we are appalled by the rise of antisemitism and racism in our state.
In succeeding years he would move to New Hampshire, write over a hundred Superman stories, inspire Mario Puzo to see the Superman story as a Greek tragedy and to write the very first Superman movie based on Elliot’s counsel.
The day was beautiful, and should I say it, almost Fall like. In the back of my mind there was an immediacy to that thought.
The technologies available to New Hampshire a decade ago are nothing like those we can wield today.
At the age of 17, I left home after graduating from high school in 1972. The urgency was the search for something.
At a pro-HB 544 rally held at the State House in April, one person reportedly carried a sign reading, “Teach MLK not CRT.”
The 2021 legislative session in its final stages and about to enter the “Let’s make a deal” segment.