Winter Trabex is a freelance reporter who has been living in Manchester since 2016. She primarily works for Manchester Ink Link, but also takes odd jobs with the Associated Press. She covers politics, economics, homelessness issues, and women’s tackle football.
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Op-ed: how the right consistently loses with young voters
The selection of Tim Walz as the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate brought into sharp focus many contrasts between positions Democrats and Republicans hold this election cycle. One of those positions involves Democrats wanting to feed hungry school children with free lunches, while schools without free lunch programs, such as Mehlville School District near St. Louis,…
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Op-ed: ‘Mind Your Own Business’: Harris and Walz are the new Libertarians
As this writer opines: “Where once Republicans courted the libertarian vote, today they court the votes of racists, fascists, criminals, and evangelical Christians.”
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Op-ed: Harris proves Dems don’t need big money donors
Joe Biden has had an interesting year, to say the least. In February, he wasn’t on the New Hampshire ballot for the electoral primary but instead engineered a write-in campaign, which he won. At the time, the Democratic Party apparatus said it would not consider New Hampshire’s electoral votes during their party primary in August.…
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Op-ed: LGBTQ Citizens and Allies Reflect on Anti-Trans Legislation as Families Leave State
New Laws Taking Effect On July 19th, Governor Sununu signed several bills into law which were deliberately designed to target transgender individuals living in the state. The bills were part of an ongoing effort by the state government to target LGBT individuals living in New Hampshire. Similar laws were also proposed at the beginning of…
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Op-ed: Big Gay Events Celebrates First Year Anniversary with Energetic Drag Show
Philip Smith and Alex Ralph, co-owners of Big Gay Events (BGE), returned to Manchester on July 21st for their first anniversary show at the Hop Knot on Elm Street. The show was similar to that from June 30th, in which the group said goodbye to this year’s Pride Month. It was a Sunday brunch event…
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Op-ed: Supreme Court Creates Their Own Nazi Enabling Act
Criminal Acts On Feb. 14, Special Counsel Jack Smith, in charge of prosecuting former president Donald Trump for his role in the events leading up to and on Jan. 6, 2021, asked the Supreme Court to “move quickly” to decide whether the president had immunity from prosecution for acts he did as president. Smith had…
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Op-ed: Hop Knot Celebrates Last Day of Pride with Big Gay Brunch Drag Show
On the last day of Pride month, June 30th, the Hop Knot in Manchester hosted a brunch event featuring four drag performers. The event was organized by Big Gay Events, who will celebrate their first anniversary in business on July 21st at the same location. Fans started filing in when the Hop Knot opened at…
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Op-ed: Fact versus Fiction: Parsing Today’s Increasingly Internecine Politics
A Challenge Against Lies March 9th of this year marked the 70th anniversary of Edward R. Murrow’s famous half-hour television broadcast in which he effectively put an end to McCarthyism in America by calling out Senator Joe McCarthy for what he was: a crusading anti-communist politician who would do anything and everything to root out…
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Op-ed: Manchester Pride 2024: An Event Ten Months in the Making
Unlike last year’s Pride Festival, in which rain poured down on the event, rain visited Manchester the day before Pride on June 14th. By the time the morning of the 15th came around, the sky was clear, ready for the sun to shine on the pride parade which this year took place on Elm Street…
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Op-ed: New Hampshire’s “Out of State” Problem
New Hampshire is a bit of an odd state, even by New England’s standards. It hosts an increasingly aging population, has the lowest state minimum wage in the region (none at all), and features a diversity of taxable income sources rather than a state income tax. The state has also had the lowest housing costs…
