The bad news, that antisemitic incidents more than doubled in New Hampshire last year, rightly gets our attention. The good news, if there is any here, is that the doubling was from such a very low base. Just 14 incidents were reported in 2022, according to the New England Anti-Defamation League.
Some of these were of the juvenile, ignorant variety. Who hasn’t seen a crudely carved or painted swastika in a high school bathroom or on the back of a stop sign? We suspect that not all of these get counted or reported. That doesn’t mean they should be dismissed, only that their knuckle-dragging creators are simply clueless on many levels.
Other incidents reported are far more concerning, such as two in middle schools in which “Heil Hitler” was uttered in front of one Jewish student while Hitler and gas chambers were referenced to another.
This kind of rot is the very definition of a teachable moment, at least for school-aged adolescents. For so-called adults who proclaim their fealty to neo-Nazism, we would suggest they read up on the matter, except we doubt their reading comprehension skills are that advanced. Perhaps some pictures of Nazi death camps would help.
Jeb Bradley is a class act. New Hampshire has been very fortunate to have had his service, experience, and devotion to our state and nation for as long as he has been willing to serve.
It is Mother’s Day and we will remain forever grateful to the individual who, having been “assigned at birth” as female, gave us life, love, and lessons in dealing with challenges great and small.
New Hampshire seems to have a pretty successful formula for attracting tourists from far and wide. Much of that, of course, is in the natural beauty abundant in our lakes, mountains, and seacoast.
New Hampshire has made the correct decision in rejecting an out-of-state company’s plan to sharply reduce logging in the vast Connecticut Lakes Headwaters Forest while the company cashes in on selling more “carbon credits” to other out-of-state companies. It was the right call. There could h…
The New Hampshire Right to Know Law protects your right to know what your state and local governments are doing. Combine that with the First Amendment guarantee of a free press and you get to learn about a rogue cop who fought all the way to the state Supreme Court to block access to his hor…
The bad news, that antisemitic incidents more than doubled in New Hampshire last year, rightly gets our attention. The good news, if there is any here, is that the doubling was from such a very low base. Just 14 incidents were reported in 2022, according to the New England Anti-Defamation League.
Gov. Chris Sununu’s Donald Trump endorsement, back-handed as it was, is at once a great disappointment but not totally unexpected in a nation that now faces its worst presidential choice in modern times. Or should we say the end times?
There’s a $306 million building plan to improve Manchester’s schools, but just two weeks ago we learned that number assumed city departments would waive a myriad of fees and permits and that if these were not waived that the difference would be cut out of what was planned for the kiddos.
