Imagine having to choose between paying rent, paying for utilities, buying medication for your family – and buying food. For many, those choices are unimaginable, but for thousands of New Hampshire residents, it’s a reality they face every day. At the New Hampshire Food Bank, we face that ...

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 ...

Energy prices are going up faster than Elon Musk’s or Jeff Bezos’s space ships. As gasoline prices close in on $5 a gallon, the cost of electricity will more than double beginning with next month’s bills. The Public Utilities Commission’s approval of escalating energy prices was not ...

I’d like to say “for most of us, ... “ but without a spreadsheet in front of me I won’t chance it. I’ll say this, though: After surviving a scrum of humanity that stealthily formed around me last Saturday with the unpredictability of a late-afternoon coastal thunderstorm, it’s ...

We recently summarized the many ways Commissioner Edelblut has undermined our public education system and last week he was handed 1,000 letters from citizens calling for his resignation. His policies have been extreme and the public deserve to know more about what has motivated Edelblut’s ...

While Jehovah’s Witnesses have chosen to temporarily suspend their door-to-door ministry due to the pandemic, their activity was almost permanently banned by one U.S. village in the late 1990s – that is until the United States Supreme Court stepped in with a historic 8-1 decision on June ...