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I urge Governor Ayotte on behalf of all of us and any state official
willing to join her to issue a long delayed, public, and sincere apology to those longago kids that our state abused. Maybe real healing could actually begin if she did.
Governor Kelly Ayotte wants the country to believe New Hampshire is thriving under her watch. But no billboard truck rolling through Manhattan—or Manchester, for that matter—can hide the simple truth: Ayotte has spent her term defunding the very foundations that make a state worth moving to in the first place.
Anyone who travelled I-89 or I-93 in the winter months near the Capital City, would see a large white plume of smoke rising out of Merrimack Station, the coal-burning electric generating plant in Bow.
The oncoming food crisis caused by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) pausing benefits, spotlights what many fail to perceive: tens of thousands of the state’s residents are not just poor, they live in poverty.
NH school districts are failing financially even though NH has among the highest per pupil costs in the nation. The often cited per pupil spending figure, however, is misleading.
Public confidence in the justice system depends not only on verdicts and rulings, but on consistency — especially from those charged with defending the law.
Of course, my readership is biased towards fixing a very broken system in real and substantial ways. I get it. You read me for a reason. However, the responses were encouraging.
I have known the Marconis both personally and professionally for a number of years. After learning more about their legal cases I cannot remain silent.
“For What its Worth” is worth a whole lot to Americans. Stephen Stills and Neil Young of “Buffalo Springfield” Bridge the “Generation Gap” in the fight for Democracy. By WAYNE D. KING
At No Kings rallies all over the country, there was a lot of music and singing. Celebrations of America like Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land,” Ray Charles singing “America the Beautiful,” spirited songs by Pete Seeger. But if there was one song that was featured over and over again, that almost everyone knew – but had no idea of its title – it was a song from the legendary 60s era band “Buffalo Springfield”: “For What it’s Worth.”
Written by the lyrical and melodic architect Stephen Stills, with collaboration from the 60s brooding experimentalist Neil Young.