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Education
Letter to Sununu: Use remaining CARES Act funds to help schools
The following is a letter to New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, re-published with permission. READ MORE
Opinion
Not That Profound
Thanks, COVID-19, for being this year’s Thanksgiving Day A-hole
I know. Every family has its idiosyncrasies. Everyone has the strange relative who shows up to dinner with a boa constrictor wound around their neck, or the red-eyed drunken uncle who has been looking for discarded Donald Trump ballots in the streams and dumpsters of Pennsylvania. But here’s my family’s strange contribution. READ MORE
Opinion
The Soapbox: Fatality prevention is not enough for the homeless
No matter how much compassion is shown by volunteers, no matter how often police officers report to a call, no matter how many shelter beds are open, unless the fundamental problems surrounding poverty and homelessness change, things aren’t going to improve. Fatality prevention just isn’t enough. READ MORE
Opinion
The Soapbox: Thankful for our school support staff
Frank Edelblut is Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Education. READ MORE
Opinion
Pulling the plug on Thanksgiving to avoid pulling the plug in the ICU
With all of New Hampshire a COVID-19 hotspot, and with the seven-day totals of confirmed cases continuing to rise at a crazy pace, I’ve made the personally devastating decision to celebrate Thanksgiving at home, with no guests. READ MORE
Opinion
The Soapbox: The State does not have a plan for homelessness
Over the past two days, nearly 100 community members across the state of New Hampshire have come together to stand in solidarity to protect and conserve the rights and property of the homeless people who live in the encampment at 300 Chestnut St in Manchester, NH. We have been able to prevent the illegal eviction of the community living here for over two days. READ MORE
Opinion
The Soapbox: ‘I dare Governor Sununu or any of his lackeys to rebut this’
Property taxes are like a “Shoe Tax” (every year you must pay taxes AGAIN for every pair of footwear), or a Fridge Tax (ditto). Why don’t we pay tax every 12 months on EVERYTHING we own? A Pants Tax! Heck, why don’t the Dem-publicans and Sununu go all the way and give us an Elbow Tax or Eyeball Tax, which we’d pay every year for the privilege of having two eyes! READ MORE
Government
Here’s how NH can spend the last $38M of CARES Act money and address homelessness
There are lots of industrial buildings for sale around the state right now because, hey, times have been rough. Some of them seem ideal for a longer-term solution to stabilizing the unsheltered. In advance, I want to say that I’m working off a commercial properties Real Estate listing site called LoopNet, and maybe some of these properties are already in negotiation or spoken for. These are just some obvious examples. READ MORE
Opinion
The Soapbox: A human moral and ethical imperative
There are the weak, the weary, the beset, the impaired, and the just plain poor, all struggling to even hope; there is very rarely the one who can but won’t. Most often there are reasons for homelessness, variables and factors which are personal, interpersonal, and systemic. Who chooses homelessness? Who would choose that as a way of life? Let us be reasonable. READ MORE
Opinion
Andy’s Week: The balance between safety and normalcy
When we last left off this column, the election was ending and the transition into what comes next was slowly beginning. However, it feels like the primary story now isn’t anything new. Rather, it’s the READ MORE
