Get rid of all the cleaners, rubbish collectors, supermarket checkout staff and secretaries, for example, and society will very quickly grind to a halt. On the other hand, if we woke up one morning to find that all the highly paid advertising executives, management consultants and private ...
Special for me during isolation – by phone playing a Scrabble game just about daily with my 96-year-old friend Marylou in Florida, in assisted living, in isolation, too. We have conversation while playing, so please don’t suggest online “Scrabble with Friends!” My Scrabble game’s box ...
Wednesday marked the 50th celebration of Earth Day in more than 193 countries across the globe. This holiday was first created in 1970, to respond to the Santa Barbara Oil Spill that occurred in 1969 and resulted in spilling more than three million gallons of oil and the killing of more than ...
How will we to return to normal and restore ourselves mentally and fiscally after the COVID-19 pandemic? The NH Fiscal Policy Institute has been assessing the economic damage done to our state and what it might take to get back to where we were. NH has a rainy-day fund, but even with federal ...
Donald Trump’s job was to lead the country in the midst of an emergency, to show leadership, to be president of the United States – and he couldn’t do it. Instead, he chose to be president of his base. He was unable to switch gears, stop campaigning and be president to the whole ...
On Friday, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu extended his state of emergency declaration – originally issued March 13 – for another 21 days. Further extension is necessary given that the pandemic has caused an unprecedented public health emergency and economic devastation, he ...