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 horrible personnel file when he was a Claremont police officer.
The Union Leader and the New Hampshire ACLU last month prevailed in the Supreme Court to get access to Jonathan Stone’s history of threats and bad conduct.
Jonathan Stone lost his job as a Claremont police officer in 2006 after investigators said he threatened to go on a “postal” shooting spree that included killing his police chief and raping the man’s wife.
Investigators said Stone made the violent threats within earshot of several police officers after he was suspended five days for a yearlong “inappropriate” personal relationship with a 15-year-old girl who went to Stevens High School.
Current Sullivan County Sheriff John Simonds said he recalled Jon saying he was “going to go to the Chief’s house and rape the Chief’s wife, and kids, and shoot the Chief.”
Fast forward and Stone is no longer a police officer, but he was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives where he sits on the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee. Now that the truth about him has come out it is time for Speaker Sherman Packard to remove him from the committee and for Claremont’s voters to retire him from serving in the House.
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.
