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What innovation? The casino way is the lazy way
READER COMMENTS: 0Of the effects casino gambling would have on a state, like New Hampshire, that has no casinos, one could say many truthful things.
Not so merry: Giving Robin Hood a bad name
READER COMMENTS: 0Some Free Staters in Keene have taken the kernel of a fun idea and turned it into something unpleasant that reflects poorly on the movement. Imagine that.
Disengaged: Obama's lousy excuse
READER COMMENTS: 14One can only imagine how Harry Truman might have handled the scandals that have engulfed the Obama admini-stration in the last few weeks.
Underestimating NH: Gun control picks two wrong targets
READER COMMENTS: 22National gun control groups that are focusing unprecedented pressure on U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte are greatly underestimating not just the New Hampshire senator but also the great majority of New...
Roaming jihadis: A terrorist visits Manchester
READER COMMENTS: 3Law enforcement sources leaked last week that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev scrawled a confession/political statement inside the Watertown, Mass., boat in which he lay bleeding on April 19.
Athletes and PE: Give them credit for sports
READER COMMENTS: 7A young woman whose name most Manchester students have never heard is on the verge of changing the city’s health curriculum for the better.
The EPA's friend: It has a loyal ally in Shea-Porter
READER COMMENTS: 16Carol Shea-Porter confirms that she's on Washington's side.
Leading vs. following: Ayotte, Shaheen and the polls
READER COMMENTS: 24Do-nothing Shaheen vs. Energetic Ayotte.
The cupcake police: Stop! In the name of lard!
READER COMMENTS: 15City school board turns into the food police.
Page One Editorial: Obama is right
READER COMMENTS: 27President Obama is right about one thing. The Benghazi affair is about politics.
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Your Turn, NH: Common Core will be a costly burden for students, taxpayers
READER COMMENTS: 0Pick two words that New Hampshire taxpayers detest, and "unfunded mandate" would be high on the list.
Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: Hybsch made a lasting impression here
READER COMMENTS: 0I went to Bill Hybsch's funeral last week. In a 40-year career at this newspaper, Bill met and dealt with a lot of people, although he never had a byline.
Jonah Goldberg: The IRS was only following Obama's lead
READER COMMENTS: 0Of course the President deserves some of the blame.
Another View -- Glenn Normandeau: Protecting endangered non-game species a NH success story
READER COMMENTS: 1As we observe the 40th anniversary of the federal Endangered Species Act this month, it is affirming to look at the progress that's been made for rare wildlife in New Hampshire.
Charles Krauthammer: Redacted truth, subjunctive outrage
READER COMMENTS: 0Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc.
George Will: The loss of trust
READER COMMENTS: 1Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing.
David Harsanyi: Get the IRS out of the speech business altogether
READER COMMENTS: 9Why does the IRS have the power it has over speech?
Another View -- Ryan Gallagher: The U.S. government spies on reporters all too frequently
READER COMMENTS: 4The recent case with the AP is not the first time U.S. authorities have adopted draconian surveillance tactics to uncover journalists’ confidential sources.
John Stossel: Who has true grit anymore?
READER COMMENTS: 0Do your kids have that much grit today? I doubt it. Parents now try to protect kids from all danger. In New York City, some won’t let teenagers go to school by themselves.
Another View: New Hampshire would take a risky bet on casinos
READER COMMENTS: 6Consider the costs of gambling.
Ramesh Ponnuru: In flextime fight, liberals play to their stereotype
READER COMMENTS: 0Flextime rules need to be modernized.
Jonah Goldberg: Benghazi's smoking guns
READER COMMENTS: 1On Benghazi, there is a "there there."
Charles Arlinghaus: Screeching lies does not count as debate
READER COMMENTS: 2Screaming and misleading is the hallmark of too much of today's politics.
Another View: Nashua does need to conduct its own review of commuter rail
READER COMMENTS: 1Why Nashua should examine commuter rail on its own.
George Will: Forgetting the lessons of Watergate
READER COMMENTS: 0Watergate and Obama.
Another View: Sen. Ayotte is doing the right thing on gun violence
READER COMMENTS: 22We're glad that Sen. Kelly Ayotte is at the table, putting her experience as a prosecutor and attorney general to good use.
Pat Buchanan: Requiem for the Grand Old Party
READER COMMENTS: 6Has the bell begun to toll for the GOP?
Thomas Sowell: Politicians, like kids, pursue goals but ignore consequences
READER COMMENTS: 1If you are driving along and suddenly see a big red rubber ball come bouncing out into the street, you might want to put your foot on the brake pedal, because a small child may well come running out...
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Jeff McLynch: Tax exemption for tips eats away at fiscal stability
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Jim Rubens: N.H. would lose a casino border war with Massachusetts
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Greg Moore: NH must end war on energy consumers
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Danielle Curtis: In education, money counts: NH’s top schools often have the lowest amounts of poverty
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Jim Kenyon: Award winning dairy farm for sale
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John E. Sununu: U.S. workforce continues to dwindle
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Judd Gregg: The perils of populism
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NH Nurse Assoc. president: Medicaid expansion spreads coverage, reduces costs
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Jim McAleese on Sequestration and the Future of the F-35 Program
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Reese Ramponi - Hierarchies: Examining class at Dartmouth
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Forbes - Tim Worstall: The Liberator plastic gun and The export regulations take down of it
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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen: NH taxpayers can afford to help vaccinate children all around the world
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Grant Bosse: New Hampshire politics in the age of professional outrage
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Judd Gregg: Ex-governors hold the keys to progress on debt deal
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Wonkette: Very lucid NH legislator could just tell those blowed-off Boston legs were faked by evil government
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Boston Globe: Tremblay - The paranoid style in N.H. politics?
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Sentinel Source: Legislators can end Liquor Commission secrecy
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Director sees Manchester airport poised for growth
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HuffPo - James Heffernan: Getting bombed at Dartmouth
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Keene Sentinel: NH Attorney General's Office defaults to secrecy
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Dana Belcher: NH hotels lose money when FAA plays politics
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HuffPo - Caren Z. Turner: The dirty thirty of the women's movement
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John E. Sununu: A determined Max Baucus, now unleashed
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Our view: Cheers for a young man's selfless gift
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New Hampshire Supreme Court holds settlement of termination dispute violates statute