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Opinion: Where are all the birds?
By MILLIE LaFONTAINE
Millie LaFontaine lives in Concord. I missed the statewide bird count the weekend of February 11th and 12th. Thanks to David Brooks’ article in the Monitor this past weekend (“Dust off those binoculars”), I was excited to participate in the Cornell...
Opinion: Why are we criminalizing obstetricians?
By OGE YOUNG
Oge Young, MD, is past president of NHMS and member of the general council representing New Hampshire obstetricians for 20 years. Last week the NH House Judiciary Committee listened to testimony regarding HB 224 which would repeal the criminal and...
Letter: Racial prejudice in sixties Cincinnati
I need to respond to the editorial piece by Jean Lewandowski, “The history of ‘woke’” (Monitor, 2/21). First, she describes the city of Cincinnati where she lived in the early sixties as rife with prejudice and that there were “legally separated...
Letter: Gambling revenues are substitutes
Jean Stimmell’s My Turn (Monitor, 2/19) regarding New Hampshire’s, and Gov. Chris Sununu’s, embrace of gambling revenues to support education, rather than increasing state funding, was a reminder of an earlier Sununu era. In 1964, the first in the...
Letter: Banned books
I recently watched a news report that showed the empty book shelves in a classroom and books in “time out” in a library waiting to be reviewed for suitability. No, it wasn’t a documentary about Germany in the 30s, it was a report from Florida. In the...
Letter: Response to ‘Boomerang town’
Thank you to Michaela Towfighi for the extensive article about Warner on Sunday (Monitor, 2/19) for which she spent considerable time to talk with so many individuals and then doing additional research on local housing numbers. I would like to clear...
Opinion: Lax landfill oversight is just one of many good reasons to limit out-of-state trash
By ELIOT WESSLER
Eliot Wessler lives in Whitefield and works with a number of grassroots organizations in NH's North Country. Congratulations to the Concord Monitor for the recent article documenting the lax oversight of New Hampshire’s landfills. The article shines a...
Letter: Modern railroading
Ohio: An overheated failed wheel bearing on a two mile long possibly overweight freight train caused a massive derailment and release of hazardous chemicals into the environment. In the news last year we saw that the rail industry now operates, via...
Opinion: Meeting on the fairway
By JOHN BUTTRICK
John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Rocker in his Concord home: Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. When I was a child I would frequently protest to my parents, “It’s not fair.” The answer I received each time was the same,...
Letter: Weather balloon mystery
News February’s first week was of the mysterious weather balloon, and Republican clamor that President Biden and our military were remiss not to shoot it right down. Voices heard loudly: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Sen. Marco Rubio. My weather...
Letter: Response to gas station article
As someone who drives or walks through the intersection of Pleasant, Warren, and Fruit Streets every weekday on the way to my job at the Walker Building on Fruit Street, I was disappointed by the Monitor’s account of the Concord Planning Board’s...
Letter: NH motorcycle deaths and organ donations
I found it interesting and sad reading David Brooks Sunday front page article about our all-time high (31) motorcycle deaths in 2022. New Hampshire is one of only three states without a helmet law of any type (along with Iowa and Illinois). A law...
Opinion: Fentanyl, friend or foe?
By THOM BLOOMQUIST
Thom Bloomquist of Concord is a nurse anesthetist, pain management specialist, and board-certified hypnotist/instructor. Fentanyl has received a lot of bad press recently. It is a potent synthetic narcotic that’s 100 times more potent than morphine....
Opinion: Shoot, then think. Balloons and propaganda
By NICHOLAS OURUSOFF
Nicholas Ourusoff lives in New London. “American officials said that the surveillance device was shot down off the coast of the Carolinas after it spent the last week traversing the country. Chinese officials maintained that it was a weather balloon...
Opinion: Our healthcare system is moving toward collapse if we don’t act soon
By JIM CULHANE
Jim Culhane of Henniker is the president & CEO of Lake Sunapee Region VNA & Hospice. The healthcare system, as we know it, is moving toward collapse. I know this sounds shocking, but to people in the industry, and to many people who have accessed...
Letter: Setting a new standard
Governor Sununu recently announced the formation of a political fundraising committee, a 501(c)(4) organization, which means that any and all donations will remain unknown. There are already too many things connected with political activity that are...
Letter: Course credit for religious instruction?
Governor Sununu, when speaking about the future of the Republican Party said something like “first we have to fix crazy” within the party. Well, you don’t have to look very far to find politically crazy Republicans ideas, like HB 382 and HB 634. These...
Letter: Who is actually canceling culture?
Thank you, Jonathan Baird, for your well reasoned opinion piece in the Monitor (2/6). You not only defended academic freedom and the teaching of Black history but also critiqued in a rational and civil manner censorship and current attacks on...
Letter: Response to ‘equality movements’
Charles Ajootian’s letter (Monitor, 2/17) was excellent. Worth reading and then rereading. Simply put: You don’t know white history, if you don’t know Black history.Christine Burgess Canterbury
Opinion: Lessons learned from COVID-19, and implications for future pandemics
By RICH DiPENTIMA
Rich DiPentima of Portsmouth has served as Chief of Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Assistant Director of Public Health for the NH Division of Public Health Services (NHDPHS), Deputy Public Health Director for the Manchester Health Department...
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