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Tax cap v. dunce cap: Six aldermen cut and run
READER COMMENTS: 2With six aldermanic votes in its pocket, the teachers' union can now concentrate its fire on picking off four more votes (10 would be needed to override a veto), plus trying to turn the tax cap into...
A veteran's memory: Thanks for your service
READER COMMENTS: 1(Cliff Schmidt is a World War II veteran and a former business executive. He resides in Henniker. His essay seems appropriate for this Memorial Day weekend--Editor.)
Monitor hypocrisy: Speaker as Hitler is only 'harsh'?
READER COMMENTS: 2In last week's furor over an editorial page cartoon that even its editor conceded was “harsh,'' the Monitor's hypocrisy was on full display.
Pakistan no friend: U.S. must show some spine
READER COMMENTS: 13We have not been able to trust Pakistan for decades. It is time to end the charade.
Anger in the streets: It's all about the money
READER COMMENTS: 5Street protests have brought the politics of confrontation into the streets of North America and Europe. The datelines and details change, but the script stays the same.
Primaries matter: And upsets happen
READER COMMENTS: 3One good indicator of the state's political health is the number of hard-fought, competitive elections.
Saving America: Challenges for our students
READER COMMENTS: 0The following is excerpted from remarks made by Publisher Joseph W. McQuaid at the recent 19th annual Francis Wayland Parker Scholar Awards banquet in Manchester:
Curb your cougar: Manchester's animal control
READER COMMENTS: 2Manchester will get back its second animal control officer come July 1. That is probably a good thing, given what seems to be an increase in wild varmints entering the city.
Hiding public business: This time it's Wilton-Lyndeborough
READER COMMENTS: 0What’s worse than a public body denying access to an investigator’s report that was paid for with taxpayer money?
Obama history: Watch out, Mt. Rushmore
READER COMMENTS: 3Until recently, you could go to the official website of the White House and find a brief biographical page on every American President. But now there's a twist.
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A liberal squeeze play
READER COMMENTS: 1Progressives are waging an embarrassingly obvious campaign, hoping Chief Justice John Roberts will buckle beneath the pressure of their disapproval and declare Obamacare constitutional.
The joy of winning
READER COMMENTS: 0The Nationals are good: young, swift, exciting — and in first place in the National League East.
Keeping business honest
READER COMMENTS: 6Competition is enough to protect consumers. But that's not intuitive. It's intuitive to assume that competition isn't really consumer protection and that experts at the FDA, FTC, DEA, FCC, CPSC, OSHA...
Fergus Cullen: UNH's reluctant Chinese export
READER COMMENTS: 0Thanks to the United States’s broken immigration system, Shaojun Yao may end up taking his taxpayer-subsidized UNH doctorate back to China, open his business and create jobs there. He'd rather...
Another view -- Paul Young: NH should trust the people, not the courts
READER COMMENTS: 1There is a disturbing trend in America to use litigation instead of legislation to set public policy.
The diversity of Elizabeth Warren
READER COMMENTS: 20Although no evidence has been found that Warren is part Indian, for years two universities listed her as such.
Suggested debate for Obama, Romney
READER COMMENTS: 3“This is not a distraction, this is what this campaign is going to be about,” President Obama said Monday at the NATO summit. The “this” in question is Mitt Romney's tenure at...
Another View -- Daniel Weeks: Apartheid 'won't quite go away' in South Africa
READER COMMENTS: 0In South Africa, history, poverty, and inequality stare you in the face, tap on your car window at the stop-light, press up against the barbed-wire fence that surrounds your home.
We should listen to Lamar Alexander
READER COMMENTS: 1Last week, Lamar Alexander proposed a budgeting swap that New Hampshire should support.
Another View -- Kathy Sullivan: Vaillancourt, Mead flaps eclipse 'war' on schools
READER COMMENTS: 7The Vaillancourt blow-up, and to a lesser extent, the Mead mini-scandal, overshadowed a more serious controversy: the war that has erupted against New Hampshire’s public schools. It is not just...
Big lies in politics
READER COMMENTS: 8The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us.
Another View: Senate must save NH's Circuit Court
READER COMMENTS: 0Why undo the new NH circuit court reforms?
Pat Buchanan: Has the bell begun to toll for the GOP?
READER COMMENTS: 8Among the more controversial chapters in “Suicide of a Superpower,” my book published last fall, was the one titled, “The End of White America.”
David Harsanyi: JPMorgan proves more rules not needed
READER COMMENTS: 2The unscrupulous can't win for losing, apparently.
Publisher's Notebook: Obama even at crossing of the Delaware?
READER COMMENTS: 9In case you missed it, Obama has been messing with the official biographies of past Presidents on a White House web site.
Scene In Manchester: Business and pleasure will mix at Arms Park fundraiser
READER COMMENTS: 0The abi Innovation Hub will prove that business doesn't have to be boring as it hosts a concert at Arms Park this Thursday. The Party at Arms, as it's being called, is a fundraiser for the Innovation...
A nightmare in Tewksbury, Mass.
READER COMMENTS: 6The injustice of civil forfeiture laws.
Same-sex marriage: empathy or right?
READER COMMENTS: 28On marriage, Obama has boxed himself into a corner.