CONGESTION pricing comes to Manhattan in June, a system of tolls to reduce daytime traffic on streets that have become sluggish so they’ll start moving again and not turn into parking lots, which is a noble idea, just as no-smoking laws were back in the day: you don’t have a right to be a pu…
DONALD TRUMP knows how to run a talent show. He’s built a career out of them — in addition to careers as real estate mogul and president.
I HAVE visited Utah, and it is a terrific state with lovely people. But I wouldn’t rank it higher than New Hampshire, as U.S. News & World Report did last week in its annual Best States ranking. In fact, Utah is the only state to rank higher than the Granite State, making ours the second…
“THIS MAY be Biden’s Vietnam.”
THIS ISN’T going to be more musing about whether America has reached “peak woke.” But that is part of the story. So let’s start there.
PRESIDENTIAL candidate Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp!”
MOHAMED ABDOU is a pro-Hamas “anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization” at Columbia University. Now, I don’t mean to pick on Abdou. It’s just that he happens to teach vir…
WHENEVER I open an egg carton, I think of the chicken at work in the factory, creating this elliptical work of art onto a conveyor belt, to be stolen away, and then the hormones in the chicken feed kick in and the process of creation repeats itself, sort of like me and limericks: I write a g…
THE CURRENT campus demonstrations are a reminder that of all the mossy cliches and puffed-up pieties of polite (and impolite) American discourse, the sanctity of protest is the hardest to question.
APRIL MAY INDEED have been the cruelest month for outgoing Republican Governor Chris Sununu, as his reputation for moderation and effective management took two self-inflicted body blows.
WITHIN the past 48 hours, student protesters occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University and then were forcibly removed by New York police. I knew that building well when I was an undergrad there in the 1970s.
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN says, “I know how to make government work!” You’d think he’d know. He’s worked in government for 51 years. But the truth is, no one can make government work. Biden hasn’t.
I WENT out West to Idaho and Washington to do my show in Boise (soft “s”) and Spokane, and was surprised by how vibrant, bustling, handsome both cities are, and walked out onstage and sang Van Morrison’s “These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now” and they…
“I CONDEMN the antisemitic protests ...” President Joe Biden told reporters after days of anti-Jewish demonstrations at Columbia University and other Ivy League schools. “I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians ...”
Recent headlines have focused on Adam Montgomery’s sentencing for killing his little girl, Harmony, and the erroneous limitation placed on a jury’s finding of abuse at the state Youth Development Center. While that is understandable, what continues to be missing in all this horror is a full … Read moreNH failed them: Where is the accounting?
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. Read moreBradley bows out: Class act in key role
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. Read moreThanks, Mom: Mother’s Day, 2024
There have been dumber ideas put before the New Hampshire Legislature. There must have been. The body has been in existence for awhile now. Read moreLast call indeed: Later hour could be fatal
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. Read moreTrash the tourists? Not a good look for NH
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… Read moreRight call for NH: Protecting forest, jobs
There have been dumber ideas put before the New Hampshire Legislature. There must have been. The body has been in existence for awhile now.
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 Bay State has found at least one government official who appears willing to operate under its de facto name: Taxachusetts.
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…
There have been dumber ideas put before the New Hampshire Legislature. There must have been. The body has been in existence for awhile now.
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 Bay State has found at least one government official who appears willing to operate under its de facto name: Taxachusetts.
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…
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