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Betty Tamposi and Dan Weeks In a democratic republic like the United States, voters are meant to choose their politicians, not the other way around.   Like many of our fellow Granite Staters, we take free and fair elections personally. One of us served for years as a Republican leader in the NH House of Representatives and later as an Assistant Secretary of State under President George H.W. Bush. The other was a Democratic nominee for Executive Council (raised in a long line of Republican elected officials) and led the nonpartisan group Open Democracy. Although we do not agree on every is...

Letter: It’s time for lawmakers to take off fossil-fuel blinders Published: 2/7/2021 12:01:15 AM Dan Weeks’s Feb. 2 Monitor “My Turn,” by addressing a “Memo to policymakers: Let solar compete,” shined welcome light on the dismal state of energy-related legislative affairs in Concord. In his piece, Weeks points out that New Hampshire is behind our neighbors in terms of allowing what is becoming the least-expensive form of energy (solar) to flourish. Progress isn’t made by looking in the rearview mirror, but by looking ahead. America and New Hampshire were made great by a pioneer...

My Turn: Memo to policymakers: Let solar compete Published: 2/2/2021 6:30:08 AM I was recently called up before a New Hampshire town zoning board to seek a variance for a solar project my company installed for a local family farm. Apparently someone in town had driven by while we were constructing the 140-panel array and complained to town officials. Although we had been granted the required zoning permits many months ago, we were told to seek a variance on the grounds that solar panels in a field might now be considered a “building,” with all the attending requirements. Thousands of dol...