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Letter: In 2,500 gods we trust Published: 3/5/2021 12:20:45 PM Christian Nationalist Republicans are legislating to have every N.H. public school display the words “In God We Trust” prominently in the school’s hallway. By doing so they hope to bring back God into the public school system. It is a shameful use of our national motto, which on its own, is divisive. The original motto, E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one) was changed in 1954 as a response to the godless communists. As an American I think the original is far superior in stating the ideals of our nation. But if we are to have t...

After spending the past five years in regional government, Barnstable County Administrator John (Jack) Yunits Jr. announced that he will be leaving his position. Mr. Yunits’s contract is set to expire this Sunday, February 28, but the county administrator will not be leaving right away. In a phone interview with the Enterprise on Tuesday, February 23, Mr. Yunits said he will remain as the country administrator on an interim basis for “the next couple months.” He noted that he wants to help see the government through the Fiscal Year 2022 budgeting and also through part of the sc...

By Jeannette Hinkle Cape Cod Times By the time John “Jack” Yunits Jr. assumed the role of Barnstable County administrator in February 2016, most county governments in the state had been disbanded. Critics held that the regional form of government was redundant, a waste of taxpayer money, and by 2010, Yunits said, county government in Massachusetts had all but disappeared. “But as I got onto the Cape, I began to realize that it had an immense value,” said Yunits, a former Brockton mayor. “Some of the smaller towns didn't have the financial capacity to grab the resources necessary to ...

Bruce Springsteen’s kumbaya Superbowl Jeep ad for unity in the “Re-United States of America” left me flat.We have 50 states not 48. Want to unify the country? Start counting all the states. The actual center of the U.S. is in South Dakota, near the...

Letter: State must reject voucher scheme Published: 2/3/2021 12:01:32 AM The New Hampshire Legislature is currently considering what has been dubbed “the most expansive voucher program in the country.” It is a dangerous proposal to avoid the New Hampshire Constitution’s prohibition on using public taxes to fund religious education. Please write to your lawmakers to oppose this dangerous proposal. If passed, House Bill 20 would entitle parents who pull their children out of the public school system to have the state pay into an educational savings account an amount equal to 95% of the st...