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Today we come together from two very different political backgrounds declaring our full support for our President, asking all of you to join us in taking a Democrat ballot, filling in the last oval, and writing in Joe Biden’s name on the bottom line.
It falls on the fourth estate to join together to work harder as a group to stem this growing disconcerting practice of selective dissemination of vital information from the people’s elected officials.
Yet every time I look at the news, I see anti-transgender politicians whipping up a frenzy about how terrible it is that kids are learning about what it means to be
transgender, or even that we exist at all.
So it was last Saturday when I first read accounts of Donald Trump’s speech at UNH, where he repeated his racist rhetoric about immigrants “poisoning the blood of America.”
As I was reviewing what we know of the timeline of the Merner Affair and the Speaker’s improbable version of events, an admonition from Sherlock Holmes came to mind – the absence of an event can be as important as the occurrence of one. Investigating the theft of a racehorse in a story titled “Silver Blaze,” the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes notes “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”
Through the use of multiple right-to-know requests, we have tried to let the sun shine in on the facts of this case, facts which now show that a man who did not live in a Lancaster legislative district ran for the House from that district, won, and then wrongly served for nine months.
President Biden has pursued an ambitious agenda, marked by significant accomplishments in public health, economic recovery, climate action, social justice, and diplomacy.
One of the great privileges of my career with the American Friends Service Committee was spending a few days with Jim Bristol, when he came to New Hampshire in 1991 to speak about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
During American Education Week, I want to take a moment to highlight Education Support Professionals. These are your children’s food service workers, custodians, para educators, administrative assistants, library assistants, mechanics, nursing assistants, and school bus drivers.