This month I offer you a quiz. You have to identify whether each name listed is: A. a True Value Hardware interior paint color; B. an IPA or local alcoholic drink, or; C. a stakes-winning thoroughbred racehorse. READ MORE
Dean Kamen thought that it was, is or will be a good idea to donate the red phone box in Manchester’s City Hall Plaza as part of the area’s 1999 renovation. READ MORE
Others see the affordable housing crisis as directly affecting their stability even as they work and volunteer within New Hampshire communities. Briefly looking at three of those populations who might not be thought of as being affected by housing insecurity and the lack of affordable housing might help explain why the housing crisis leaves many on the outside looking in. These three groups are those with intellectual or developmental disabilities (ID/DD), those with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and abuse survivors attempting to flee their abusers. READ MORE
Columnist John Angelo has compiled a soundtrack for the city, anthems for favorite landmarks. Do you have any to add? READ MORE
“There is no way anyone should be building without 5 to 10 percent devoted to affordable housing or making a donation.” – Schonna Green READ MORE
According to data provided by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, $23.43 is the hourly wage needed in New Hampshire for a single earner to rent an affordable two-bedroom apartment. READ MORE
“The ax forgets; the tree remembers” is an African proverb Woullard Lett holds close. The past president of the Manchester branch of the NAACP, who is now also active with the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA), bristles at language such as “us” and “them.” He questions axes flailing at hateful symbols and symptoms when it is America’s oft-anguished tree that must be healed and made strong by and for all of us. READ MORE
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