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By BOB MALLARD

Bob Mallard is the executive director of Native Fish Coalition. A recent proposal by NH Fish and Game (NHFG) looked to gut the state’s Wild Trout Management (WTM) program. Waters so designated are the only places in the state where wild native brook...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com My father lived with conflicted ideas about education. Without a high school diploma, he attributed his success to...

By LISA A. WALKER

Lisa Walker is a superintendent of schools in Grantham and was New Hampshire Superintendent of the Year 2022. She lives in Peterborough. In my nearly 30 years in public education, starting as a teacher and ending as a Superintendent of Schools, I’ve...

By GRACE KASEKE KINDEKE

Grace Kaseke Kindeke is an artist, the AFSC-NH Program Coordinator and a B.A. student of Africana Studies and Sociology at UMASS Boston. She was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and lives in Manchester. In 2012, President Obama announced a new...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. In her novel, “The Nightingale,” Kristin Hannah vividly recreates the mass deportation of Jews from France by the German Nazi occupiers during World War II. The brutality, violence and misery of the enterprise are...

By PARKER POTTER

Parker Potter is a former archaeologist and historian, and a retired lawyer. He is currently a semi-professional dogwalker who lives and works in Contoocook. When I was in college, I spent my summers on campus working on an archaeological project. In...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Psychological resilience is that rare quality that enables some survivors to prosper after devastating trauma or misfortune, millstones...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com. Candidate for president Kamala Harris said near the end of the Democratic Convention, “this election is not only the...

By NELSON H. LAWRY

Nelson H. Lawry holds a Ph.D. in cell biology. He has written extensively about local history, the history of technology, the freshwater environment, the New Hamphire coastal forest and the role of cyanobacteria. He is the author of “Armed Bluejackets...

By STACEY BROWN

Stacey Brown is Ward 5 City Councilor in Concord. My statements here are my own and not representative of the City Council’s, but as a taxpayer, mother of two Concord school students, former middle school teacher, and elected official, I feel...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot.In the annals of American history there have been some truly horrible Supreme Court decisions. I have always thought Dred Scott v Sandford was the worst. Saying African Americans had no claim to freedom or citizenship...

By SETH C. ORANBURG

Seth C. Oranburg is a professor of law at Franklin Pierce School of Law, specializing in business law, corporate governance, and legal theory. He recently participated in a Law Professors’ Mission to Israel, where he studied the impact of conflict on...

By JEAN STIMMELL

Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. As the Democratic Convention unfurled this week in Chicago, everyone tried to compare it to the infamous 1968 convention in that city....

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.comI’ve noted that the Republican and Democratic conventions covered almost no information about the United States’...

By TERRY IRWIN

Terry Irwin lives in Exeter. David Emerson’s My Turn, “Crossing the tracks,” describes his and his wife’s trek up Lowe’s Path to Mount Adams on what I believe was one of his final strenuous White Mountain hikes.His piece took me back to my trek to...

By MARIA WILKINSON

Maria Wilkinson lives in Concord. What does the gay GOP look like? While we mostly equate the LGBTQIA+ community to be upheld by Democrats and an issue owned by the left, there exist members of the gay and lesbian community that vote red.Those who are...

By BRIAN ADAMS

Brian Adams of Andover, Mass., is a UNH alumnus originally from Londonderry. He was previously a sketch comedy writing instructor and staff writer at ImprovBoston and a founding contributor to satirical online newspaper Recyculus. He is a father to...

By KARISHMA MANZUR

Karishma Manzur, Ph.D., is a member of the NH Coalition for a Just Peace in the Middle East, which includes NH Veterans for Peace, VT/NH. Jewish Voice for Peace, NH Conf. of United Church of Christ, NH Peace Action, NH Program of the American Friends...

By JONATHAN P. BAIRD

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. After the death of George Floyd and the movement it provoked, it looked like there might be a serious national effort to address racial bias in policing. It also looked like there might be a genuine dialogue about...

By GEORGE KELLY

George Kelly is a resident of East Concord, and a retired public school educator/ administrator. Methinks the Concord School Board ought to pile into a van, preferably an unmarked one, and take a drive across the river up “Gully Hill,” past the state...

By JOHN BUTTRICK

John Buttrick writes from his Vermont Folk Rocker in his Concord home, Minds Crossing. He can be reached at johndbuttrick@gmail.com ‘In America, more than perhaps anywhere else in the Western world, petitions to God (prayer) are still a routine...