Opinion
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Op-ed: Anti-trans laws are a threat to NH agriculture
As residents of New Hampshire, we live and work within a vibrant and diverse landscape, our agriculture dominated by small and adaptable farms. The resiliency of those farms relies on both the ingenuity and perseverance of individuals, along with the support farmers give each other, which comes in innumerable forms. I am calling on that…
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Op-ed: Which future for America? The choice is ours.
Two years shy of its 250th birthday, our country teeters between alternate futures: either we continue the American Experiment, or we abandon it. With an attempted coup just a few years behind us and one of two major American political parties fully co-opted by a convicted criminal and former president who no longer hides his…
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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 Education Under Fire
Just a few weeks ago, the New Hampshire Senate voted to pass a bill enabling widespread book bans throughout the state. The House has continued attempting to increase the income cap to use school vouchers or even remove it entirely. All while students and teachers suffer as a result. From pre-K to college, New Hampshire…
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Op-ed: Losing on D-Day was not an option. Nor is losing today’s fight against authoritarians.
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Thom Tillis (R-NC), co-chairs of the U.S. Senate NATO Observer Group, wrote an op-ed in MSNBC today reflecting on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, highlighting the need to recommit to strengthening NATO and combatting authoritarianism at home and abroad. You can read their op-ed here. The full article is also available here and below: …
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Op-ed: Trump Has Always Wanted to Ban Abortion
When I was a senior in high school, Donald Trump’s Supreme Court voted to overturn the decades-long precedent of Roe v. Wade. I remember exactly where I was, what I was doing, and how I felt. I was in shock when I read the decision – a fundamental right I had been guaranteed my entire…
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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…
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Op-ed: It’s Time to Get Cannabis Legalization Done
The New Hampshire House of Representatives has repeatedly approved cannabis legalization only to see its bills die in the state Senate. For the first time ever, the Senate passed a legalization bill this month and the governor is on board. The House should not let this opportunity slip away. We have advocated for legalization for…
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Op-ed: COVID-19 Vaccines and Medicines Becoming Increasingly Expensive
Nathaniel Weixel of The Hill reported that the federal government was ending its program to offer free COVID vaccinations to underinsured and uninsured individuals. The program was meant to end in December 2024; however, it is set to end in August. Those who wish to have a COVID vaccine this year and cannot afford out…
