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Mixed city report card: An 'A' and an 'incomplete'
READER COMMENTS: 2From the weekend news, give Manchester's School Department one “A'' and one “incomplete.''
50 years after Glenn: Let's hear it for space exploration
READER COMMENTS: 25Political foes and news media gave Newt Gingrich grief when he traced a vision for an American colony on the moon. But we heard no one dissing former astronaut John Glenn when, on the 50th...
Fire politics: Choices in Manchester
READER COMMENTS: 35Ward 4 Manchester Alderman Garth Corriveau let his emotions get the better of him and played politics with last week's major apartment fire that displaced 40 families.
Contract hunting: Ban would harm property owners
READER COMMENTS: 14How does prohibiting a specific use of one’s property protect private property rights? To get the answer, you’ll have to ask Rep. Joe Duarte, R-Candia.
Jefferson on Washington: ‘A wise, a good, and a great man’
READER COMMENTS: 18Thomas Jefferson's opinion of George Washington.
Right path for NH House: Pass the funding amendment
READER COMMENTS: 16Political foes have exploited every individual legislator's ideas, no matter how farfetched, as representative of the whole body. In a body of 400 souls, that is misleading and unfair in the extreme.
Limiting taxes: It's constitutional
READER COMMENTS: 19A meritless constitutional argument.
Hospital competition: Rethinking its regulation
READER COMMENTS: 14Hospitals seek to squash a competitor.
Hooksett's hall: Will the town preserve it?
READER COMMENTS: 1If you're a Hooksett resident who cares about your town, you should clear some time today to attend the open house at the old town hall. Town officials are opening the landmark for tours and their...
It's not free: Obama's misleading sales pitch
READER COMMENTS: 78There is no free lunch -- or free health care.
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I'll drink to expanding liquor sales
READER COMMENTS: 0Expanding liquor sales will help consumers and the state.
The new blacklist
READER COMMENTS: 37After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing MSNBC, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and...
Only in Print -- Opinion: Manuse plan would protect NH from Obamacare exchanges
READER COMMENTS: 0We don't need a state health insurance exchange, writes New Hampshire columnist Charles Arlinghaus.
Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: Sharing a birthday with Abe — and the flu
READER COMMENTS: 1Birthdays are usually nice, but hindsight being pretty good, I should have skipped my last one.
Reasons to like (and honor) Ike
READER COMMENTS: 30Two coming developments, one dismal and one excellent, pertain to America's memory of a great man.
Fergus Cullen: Running for governor, Gatsas would have much to explain
READER COMMENTS: 13The Manchester mayor would start a primary race for governor with a major trust deficit.
Progressives are never in doubt
READER COMMENTS: 39Progressives meddle because they think they know more than they do.
Only in Print -- Opinion: New Hampshire Republicans need to stop playing defense
READER COMMENTS: 1How NH Republicans can win big in 2012.
David Harsanyi: The left wants freedom of choice only sometimes
READER COMMENTS: 36Choice for some, but not for all.
We have heard all of Obama's failed 'progressive' ideas before
READER COMMENTS: 46Barack Obama follows in the footsteps of other Presidents with a similar vision, the vision at the heart of the Progressive movement that flourished 100 years ago. Many of the trends, problems and...
Pat Buchanan: The state is trampling on God's turf now
READER COMMENTS: 41Yes, Virginia, there is a religious war going on. It is for the soul of America. And traditional Christianity is besieged.
Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: ‘Nuts' to squirrels and Ike as a boy statue
READER COMMENTS: 11Grandson Ike and I walked over to the little brook the other day to throw pebbles. We brought along some nuts for the squirrels. We had fun.
George F. Will: Bribery or just politics?
READER COMMENTS: 4Until the Supreme Court clarifies what constitutes quid pro quo political corruption, Americans engage in politics at their peril because prosecutors have dangerous discretion to criminalize politics.
Holder's selective fight against 'racist' photo ID requirements
READER COMMENTS: 67Requiring a photo ID is racist?
Government cannot make you happy
READER COMMENTS: 49Don't rely on the state for happiness.
Murky GOP rhetoric on defense
READER COMMENTS: 12Republicans are hurting their national security credentials.
Only in Print: Opinion - Reaching a compromise on biennial legislative sessions
READER COMMENTS: 0"A proposal to switch the Legislature back from annual to biennial sessions can be modified to allay the concerns of both those who want to maintain a greater legislative role and those who want to...
Ramesh Ponnuru: The contraception edict and rule of law
READER COMMENTS: 63An anti-Catholic "balancing act" at HHS.