My Turn: How to abuse the agritourism system in New Hampshire

By JIM ZABLOCKI

The New Hampshire Legislature, in RSA 21:34a, defines agritourism as attracting visitors to a farm to attend events or activities that are accessory uses to the primary farm operation. Agritourism has been with us for many years. From hayrides to...

My Turn: Remembering Christa

By MEL MYLER

Today marks the 35th anniversary of the Challenger tragedy of Jan. 28, 1986. It is a day that we will not forget. On the 30th anniversary, I gave the following testimony to the N.H. House of Representatives. Let me share with you that accounting of...

Letter: Corrections officers are first responders, too

Correctional officers are sworn law enforcement personnel. These men and women are eligible for the same retirement police and firefighters are entitled to. They receive emergency first responder training and must maintain that certification in order...

My Turn: Zero white guilt

By GRACE MATTERN

My husband and I served as volunteer election monitors on Nov. 3. When we arrived at the polling location in a neighboring town, there was a large truck parked in the lot so the sign in the rear cab window faced those pulling in: “ZERO WHITE GUILT.”I...

Jean Stimmell: The delusions of Trump supporters

By JEAN STIMMELL

According to the Cleveland Clinic, a delusional disorder, previously called paranoid disorder, is a serious mental illness in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. The main feature of this disorder is the presence of...

My Turn: Progressives want to indoctrinate our children, not educate them

By JOSEPH MENDOLA

If you are a Progressive in the political sense of the word, here is the philosophy you subscribe to. If you think about public education, you think like John Dewey, the father of a progressive educational system. Americans have allowed Dewey’s...

Letter: Three reasons to vote Democrat

Reason one to vote Democrat on Nov. 3: Leadership with vision really matters.Leadership and vision for our state and our country start with caring more about its citizens and its future generations’ personal health, community health, environmental...

My Turn: Blue eyes, brown eyes, and the lessons learned

By CHRISTINE HAGUE

Fifty years ago, I was a young teacher in the quiet farm town of Hatfield, Massachusetts. Across the Connecticut River, the towers of UMass stood tall against the horizon. On that campus, student activism generated protests for civil rights and...

Susannah Colt: If Lincoln had lived

By SUSANNAH COLT

Abraham Lincoln has been on the minds of many people lately in the midst of the racial justice movement that is catalyzing the nation. After all, he was the president that steered this country through the Civil War and freed 4 million slaves.Our...

Jonathan P. Baird: Remembering Thaddeus Stevens, an anti-racist American hero

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Among truly great Americans, I would bet Thaddeus Stevens might be the least well known. An extremely controversial figure in his lifetime, Stevens was a leading light of the abolitionist movement both before and immediately after the Civil...

My Turn: What do people mean when they say America is the greatest country?

By PAUL DeMINICO

The anger many Americans feel about the state of affairs in our country rivals that of the late 1960s. It is profoundly sad. I write this as an observer of American politics from abroad, as I am a retired New Hampshire educator living with my wife in...

Jonathan P. Baird: Sundown towns and the Great Retreat

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

One positive byproduct of the Black Lives Matter movement is a new willingness to honestly explore our national history. This has been reflected in efforts like the New York Times 1619 Project. American history, as conventionally told, has big gaps....

3-Minute Civics: What is the Executive Council?

By TRACY HAHN-BURKETT

We all know that our state government has three branches. The legislative branch is composed of the Senate and House of Representatives. The executive branch rests with the governor. And the judicial branch is represented by our state court system....

My Turn: No more room for names on Vietnam Memorial? Add a new wall

By JOHN MEINHOLD

How would you feel if your son, brother, father or husband had been deployed to the Vietnam War and then tragically died, but his name is not honored on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall) in Washington, D.C.? The Pentagon says your loved one’s...

3-Minute Civics: Can my constitutional rights be limited?

By TRACY HAHN-BURKETT

Everyone knows they have constitutional rights. But what is sometimes less well understood is that these rights have limits.Wait, what?It’s true! Let’s start with defining what constitutional rights are and are not. Constitutional rights refer to your...

Ralph Jimenez: The sights and deafening sounds of Puerto Rico

By RALPH JIMENEZ

We are new to snow-birding. Truth be told, we’d always felt righteously superior to those who fled New Hampshire in winter. But then age and injury meant no more snowboarding and no snow meant no more cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, so why not?...

Jonathan P. Baird: Abortion is not like slavery or the Holocaust

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos recently compared the abortion rights debate to the struggle to end slavery. Speaking at Colorado Christian University on Jan. 22, she said: “Lincoln contended with the pro-choice arguments of his day. They suggested...

Letter: Evolution is a theory

In a Jan. 29 letter there was a claim made that Darwin’s theory is fact. Not only is it a theory, it is a theory debunked by science. In the book Darwin’s Black Box, Dr. Michael Behe, professor of biochemistry at Leigh University, explains in the book...

My Turn: FDR, collusion and impeachment

By MICHAEL MOFFETT

In 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt sought an unprecedented third term as president. But while his first two elections were landslides, the political landscape had changed. Americans were inherently troubled by the notion of an entitled presidency and a...

What do we mean when we declare that health care is a basic human right?

(Last week, we asked readers this question: “Do you believe health care should be considered a basic human right?” Here are the responses we received.) The Founders’ vision I believe health care should be considered a basic human right. It is in...