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Way, way too much weather hype (or how, in Coös, to form a mob)
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We have become a nation of weather-obsessed neurotic ninnies. Television weather coverage begets neurotic viewers.
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John Harrigan Inducted into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame
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Harrigan reflects on the long arc of his career including its beginnings at the Nashua Telegraph and the New Hampshire Sunday News, the tragedy of the mass shooting in 1997 that took the lives of four close friends, including the editor of one of his newspapers.
View from Above the Notches
The Toboggan Gets a Push, And You’re Along for the Ride
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Note to self:
Goals for the first day of 2016:
— Fix hydraulics on tractor and bucket loader
— Clean out and restart outdoor wood furnace
— Catch up on New Year’s e-mail
— Write “Hello from Harrigan on InDepthNH.org”
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No Fear of Flying Here, But Plenty of Loathing
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John Harrigan’s on a rant like only Harrigan can rant.
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Voter fraud and phantom cats: When did we ever lose faith?
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JOHN HARRIGAN: I’ve been out of the loop for a while, self imposed. When I came back from camp the other week I heard about this special Trump election commission, whose mission is to try to restore faith in the U.S. election system, which I did not know was missing.
To the Media in Foggy Bottom: Stop Whining and Hold Their Feet To the Fire
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VIEW FROM ABOVE THE NOTCHES: On this day, I heard people complaining about being ambushed by the Trump agenda. “Poor babies,” I thought. Where have they been?
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John Harrigan on the Why of InDepthNH.org and Roger Wood on the Why Not
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Find out how to order a green cake of your own and help celebrate InDepthNH.org’s 1st anniversary. Thanks Mike Marland for the terrific cartoon. Hear, too, from Roger Wood and John Harrigan.
As the Worm Turns, the Robins Appear, with Peepers and Black Flies Due on Cue
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John Harrigan spouts off on the verge of Geezerdom.
Observations from a Veteran News-Hound — For the Bobcat, a Tail’s-Worth of Hope
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By the time I bought my Times at LaPerle’s IGA, at around 4 p.m. if I was lucky – only six copies reached Colebrook – the news was already almost 10 hours old, and by the time I spread it out the next-morning it was 30 or so, older than wrapped fish.
24 Below: A good use for ‘number’ and weather-numbing TV
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John Harrigan’s View from Above the Notches: It came in a column I did for InDepthNH.org, “Iowa, Schmiowa,” in which I wrote that I was “number than a two-by-four about presidential politics.” The problem with that phrase is that “number,” as in “He’s number than a fencepost,” looks and reads just like “I tried to get her telephone number and she smacked me number than a dead cod.