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Repealing "Don't ask, don't tell" may be the right thing to do, but there's only one reason to do it: military effectiveness.
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Didn't that Manchester bank robber last week know that if you are going to rob a bank on Elm Street, ManchVegas, you are supposed to tape a tree to your head?
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The House Finance Committee has recommended that the state restore $314,394 in funding to the Claremont, Colebrook, Keene and Milford District Courts. Oh, the hypocrisy!
Rep. Chris Nevins, R-Hampton, has introduced a bill to create a state "aeronautical fund" which would finance maintenance and capital improvements at all airports open to the public.
Allowing the people of New Hampshire to decide for themselves whether to limit the growth of their own municipal budget is a bad idea, say legislative Democrats, because the people might actually do it.
Did you see that Super Bowl ad for the U.S. Census? If not, too bad, because you paid $2.5 million for it.
Army Specialist Marc Paul Decoteau of Waterville Valley seemed to be one of those whose life, and death, touched many Granite Staters.
Democrats raised spending a few years ago by $475 million with no clue where the state would obtain the difference between what we could fund and what they wanted to spend.
There is only one opponent of the LLC tax in the race to replace Ted Gatsas as your state senator, and his name is David Boutin.
Officials in Concord, of all places, are moving forward with a plan to save taxpayers money by moving some public swimming pool expenses out of the general fund.
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When they get the chance they seem to have no trouble voting "yes" for increased spending.
From the opening musket fire of the American Revolution, New Hampshire men and women have never shied from service or sacrifice.
As we are learning with this new President, it's his way or ... his way.
As we all know, getting older isn't hard to do. Time continues on. In this poem, Deborah Warren of Massachusetts asks us to think about the life lived between our past and present selves, as indicated in the marginal comments of an old book. There's something beautiful about books allowing us to talk to who we once were, and this poem captures this beauty.
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