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Cabinet Editorials

New Hampshire’s health care: A force to be reckoned with

The news has been plentiful about the healthcare workforce shortage. We hear about this deep-seated problem on the national level as well as here in New Hampshire. According to National Nurses United, there are 4.4 million registered nurses in the United States but only 3 million are currently ...

A focus on mental health is not new to the YMCA

Since its inception more than 150 years ago, YMCAs have considered mental health to be one of the three pillars of wellbeing. It can be seen in early communications in the late 1800s that directed our work. The spirit, mind, and body logo from generations ago gave equal prominence to the ...

Primary results show extremism has taken over Granite State GOP

Now that New Hampshire’s primaries are over and our general election slate is in concrete, one thing is abundantly clear – New Hampshire Republicans are in a race to the right. Up and down the ballot, Republicans’ chaotic primaries ended with extreme, anti-choice, out-of-touch nominees ...

Appreciation, obfuscation, democracy at risk

Congratulations to the 256 New Hampshire Representatives (80% of the House) and 11 Senators who stood with the people of the Granite State to defend our precious clean waters and override Gov. Chris Sununu’s veto of HB1454. That bill could have protected us statewide from preventable landfill ...

What’s all the buzz? Buzz words have been with us for many a year

I’ve been away from corporate America for several years now, but I can still remember all the buzz words used that seemed not only a bit silly, but typically unnecessary. Employees would use them oftentimes because it was the popular thing to do or to fit in with the crowd. Buzz words have ...

Fiscal Agency: Doing great ‘nonprofit’ work, without being a nonprofit

Sometimes I use this space to talk about important community topics, like last month where we discussed “period poverty.” And other months I might discuss ways to get involved, like with the United Way Investment (Grantmaking) process. But other times, I like to use this space to peek ...