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Opinion

Children’s mental health

Cabinet Letters

Children’s mental illness is just that, an illness, and like any other illness children can acquire, we need to make sure they have proper care. Prior to the pandemic, 12.6% of New Hampshire youth have a behavioral health and/or developmental disorder and more than half have needed some type ...

Elect planning boards

Bedford Letters

HB 341 was recommended “Inexpedient to Legislate” (ITL) by a vote of 10-9. Write to the full House asking them to vote YES on ITL of HB 341: nhhouse@leg.state.nh.us We’ve seen many similar bills that attempt to ‘urbanize’ rural towns in NH by favoring high-density construction ...

Vote for Wendy Thomas

Cabinet Letters

To all Merrimack Democrats: You have another chance. There’s another chance to send Wendy Thomas back to Concord. Wendy is running in the April 13 special election for the open NH House seat, with a platform to fight for the environmental health of Merrimack, adequately fund public schools, ...

HB544 bad for business

Cabinet Letters

The proposed bill HB544 is poorly conceived, poorly written and clearly violates the first amendment to the constitution. One could expect to see legislation like this in some authoritarian country, but not in the U.S.. This proposed bill is an almost verbatim copy of the Executive Order ...

Pollution bill will help Merrimack

Cabinet Letters

HB-478 is being heard this Friday in the legislative Judiciary committee. This is an important bill that enforces adequate and fair restitution from an industrial polluter toward Merrimack Town residents, who have been adversely affected. HB-478 holds one industrial polluter accountable for ...

Individual liberty

Cabinet Letters

American society once placed a high value on Individual Liberty. Recently, however, there has been an attempt by those who control the free flow and exchange of information and ideas, the ideal should be pushed aside, or laid to rest, for it is outdated. One of the oldest political traditions ...