
It’s time to vote: Do your homework
Tomorrow New Hampshire citizens will be going to the polls to determine who will represent us in our town governments, the State House, and Washington, DC. When I first moved to New Hampshire 32 years ago, elections were an altogether different experience than they are today. Negative ads were tame by comparison, and local elections were pretty non-partisan. Today, we seem to choose people who will make truly consequential decisions that impact every constituent based on ideology and nothing more. Bi-partisanship and collaboration are openly mocked and discouraged. I do not fully understand how we got to this place, and I don’t know how we get out of it, but I know that we must try if we wish to preserve our democratic ideals. READ MORE