<< Thu., Mar. 11

EDITORIALS

Doris Haddock of Dublin did as so many other Granite Staters do in their 20s or 30s; she became a political activist.

If ever New Hampshire had a First Lady who epitomized that title, it was Gale Thomson.

Today the state Senate considers Senate Bill 392, which clumsily seeks to address rising health care and health insurance costs.

Manchester has 63,000 registered voters, and only a handful of them showed up at Monday night's public hearing on the city school budget.

In the 2009 fiscal year, only 16 percent of New Hampshire prison inmates served their maximum sentences. That is not good enough for the state Department of Corrections and some legislators.