Letter: Unqualified leadership ahead

Would you board a plane knowing the pilot was an unlicensed felon and the crew was untrained and unvetted? Most likely not. Yet here we are with Donald Trump assuming the controls of the most powerful nation in the world in these dangerously turbulent...

Letter: Monitor declares viewpoint defiant

I’m pretty sure that sometime in the late nineties Concord City Council decided to tone down the religious aspect of the city’s celebration of the tree lighting to make it more inclusive. Specifically they declined to allow religious expression...

Letter: Not, this year, a season for joy

Historic treasure Aleppo has been bombed. Beirut is being bombed by Israel using American-made 2000-pound bombs, killing targeted Hezbollah but also civilians. Gazans still, if surviving, barely live. Historic treasure Kiev, too, being bombed by...

Letter: The children of Gaza

Oh, “say can you see . . . the rockets red glare, and the bombs bursting in air,” upon the children of Gaza. The UN Human Rights Office estimates there are 19,000 dead children, while Save the Children reveals that “more than 10 children on average...

Opinion: How the fight for our rights continues

By DEVON CHAFFEE

Devon Chaffee is the executive director of the ACLU of New Hampshire. Alongside a new year, 2025 will usher in a new Trump administration, a time that will represent a clear and present danger to our country’s democratic processes and institutions...

Letter: Thank you, Sen. Shaheen

I want to thank Sen. Shaheen for voting on Nov. 20 to support Sen. Sanders’ joint resolutions of disapproval. A lot of rich people are becoming even more rich from the billions of dollars of weapons transfers to Israel. Our hard-earned taxes are being...

Letter: Search for Chase

David Brooks’ sensitive coverage of Jill Hunkins and her work in the Blossom Hill Cemetery (Monitor, 12/7) is timely for me. I am searching for the grave of Mary N. Chase (1863-1959). She died on December 30, 1959, age 96, in Boston. Mary N. Chase...

Letter: Community concern for children ignored

Sarah Robinson surprisingly stated, “Children have been completely written out of this conversation for the most part” (Monitor, 12/6). Yet the public showed concern for children when it promoted: quality of life through improved physical fitness by...

Letter: Response to ‘Famine’

Thank you for asking for the source of the phrase “over 60,000 humans killed from forced starvation” in my My Turn titled “We condemned Russian and Hamas atrocities, but what about Israel’s?” that appeared in the Monitor (11/29). The source is a...

Opinion: Joe versus the volcano of outrage

By NATHAN R. SHRADER

Dr. Nathan R. Shrader serves as Associate Professor of Politics and Co-Director of the Center for Civic Engagement at New England College in Henniker. He can be reached at nshrader@nec.edu. President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter...

Opinion: The view across Park Street

By NICK PERENCEVICH

Nick Perencevich is a semi-retired physician living in Concord. I’ve gotten into a habit of traveling by the John Gilbert Winant statue on Park Street, just to the left of the State Library walk up, and saying hello to the former governor. When it...

Letter: A solution

The satanic display in front of the State House sickens me, as does the city’s fear of a lawsuit if they were to deny its display. This symbol has no business being grouped with the crèche and menorah.My solution is to remove the crèche and the...

Letter: School vouchers scam

Thank you to Jeremy Margolis and the Concord Monitor for sharing important information about who is benefiting from school vouchers. I have made several attempts to find out how my tax money is being used since vouchers have been approved and it is...

Letter: Response to ‘citizen activism’

How ironic that the Monitor would publish a commentary on citizen activism (“Learning to make a difference between elections”) on the same day that it reported on the public hearing on the school district charter amendments. Does the Monitor really...

Opinion: Getting away with stealing federal documents

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. From the first moment you enter the federal government, you learn about the obligation to protect federal documents. All federal employees must complete record management training which includes mandatory annual...

Opinion: A holiday wish: Congress must pass PBM reform

By WILLIAM MURPHY

William Murphy is director, Advocacy & Public Policy, Epilepsy Foundation New England. As New Hampshire families plan for the holidays, many are making careful calculations – not about gifts or celebrations but how to afford their prescription...

Opinion: Hope isn’t a feeling, it’s a choice

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. A transactional ethos has overtaken our land. We can see its most extreme form in Donald Trump. We also see it blatantly showcased, not...

Opinion: Pulling back the curtain: How big hospital chains extract maximum profit from NH patients

By JOSH PARKER

Josh Parker is an operations project coordinator in Milford. It’s no secret that healthcare costs have skyrocketed in recent years. According to some estimates, Americans now owe at least $220 billion in medical debt. And yet, rates of chronic disease...

Opinion: Stewards and kindred living together on the earth

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. Thanksgiving weekend we traveled to Portland, Maine to visit our daughter, son-in-law, and our two grandchildren. We drove over hills and through woods passing by...