Kelly Ayotte and Chuck Morse should be ashamed that their consuming interest in becoming New Hampshire’s governor trumps the very principles that they will no doubt claim to uphold in that high office. Like many other cowering Republicans, they have pledged their fealty to Donald Trump, who is destroying that once proud party and threatens to do the same to the nation.
Not that Democrats Joyce Craig and Cinde Warmington are in position to crow much. Their party’s presidential choice is an enfeebled octogenarian whose self-interest endangers the country and who may well lose to Trump. What has either woman said about Joe Biden?
The cynical defense offered by and for each of these politicians is that they have no choice. If they don’t go along, the cynics say, they jeopardize their own chances of gaining office.
A few brave individuals in New Hampshire and elsewhere could make a difference. They might even spare the country from what otherwise lies ahead. But that would take the kind of moral and political courage that, alas, is nearly extinct in the Granite State and in the nation.
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.
In its recent “American Masters” program on William F. Buckley Jr., we expected PBS to take a hatchet to that important American conservative. We weren’t disappointed.
New Hampshire legislators are right to move forward with bills protecting young female athletes from being physically injured by boys who want to be girls.
Of the many troubling aspects in the recent story of state Rep. Jonathan Stone, most disturbing to us is another example of a public body agreeing to keep from the public information that it is entitled to and ought to know.