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Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was in New Hampshire to promote the White House’s infrastructure agenda, but trips to the first-in-the-nation primary state evoke a different kind of campaign blitz.
I spent part of today watching the heavy equipment leveling the site of the future Market Basket shopping plaza in Penacook. To the best of my knowledge, this will be the first chain grocery store in Penacook since the A&P closed their village grocery...
Email address: POLITICAL COMMENTARY For those of you old enough to remember Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel Catch-22, it is a reminder that most things really are not new. The ground-breaking dark comedy, although stylistically it was similar to two earlier Samuel Beckett novels, followed anti-hero Capt. John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Force B-25 bombardier, as he tried to process in different times and places the horrific death of a fellow officer. The title of the book has taken on a meaning of its own, a paradoxical situation with no escape because of rules or limitations. The situation is l...
State rep.'s post part of NH's growing anti-Semitism problem By Damien Fisher New Hampshire has a growing problem with anti-Semitism, one that experts fear could turn violent if not checked. “Yes, we think that New Hampshire has an anti-Semitism problem,” said Dina Michael Chaitowitz, a member of the Jewish Federation of New Hampshire’s board. FBI reports indicate that hate crimes directed at Jewish people are on the rise in New Hampshire, and the state is home to some notorious anti-Semitic individuals and groups. Chaitowitz said her organization is hearing more and more about anti-Sem...
CONCORD â With three disabled colleagues backing him up, House Democratic Leader Renny Cushing of Hampton urged acting House Speaker Sherman Packard to allow any lawmaker to remotely attend a âdrive-inâ session Jan. 6 at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. Cushing, 68, said the âin-your-car meetingâ spelled out in a Sunday letter from Packard would violate a lawmakerâs rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act. He wouldnât rule out suing House leaders if they refuse to make an accommodation. âThe leader of the Republican majority is doing ...