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Speak out about proposed changes to education in NHAre you aware that the New Hampshire Department of Education is currently revising the minimum administrative standards governing how education is defined in New Hampshire? It wouldn’t surprise me if...
Cemetery tree removal a travestyWe are aghast and dismayed at the recent decimation visited on the School Street Cemetery of Lebanon in which two dozen century-old trees were razed to the ground. Every single tree is gone. To repeat, every single tree...
Sununu and Formella comments are irresponsibleI write to express my concern at the statements New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and Attorney General John Formella issued regarding the acquittal of Mr. Zhukovskyy of all charges in Coos County Superior...
Missed opportunity for natural gasThe Biden administration is doing everything it can to supply gas energy to Europe via tanker, with regulators approving shipments from a new plant in Louisiana even before its completion. And frackers are doing their...
Published: 5/4/2021 10:45:22 AM Modified: 5/5/2021 10:51:31 AM Conflicting information can be hard to vaccinate against The psychology of early COVID-19 deniers — “it’s exaggerated, no mask for me,” etc. — was quite well explained, both by professionals and casual observers of human behavior. Now there’s a new class of deniers who won’t accept vaccination’s fundamental purpose: immunity. As David Leonhardt explained in The New York Times recently, we confuse real risk — car crashes, for example — with “salient risk,” that which is new and unfamiliar. “The vaccines ...