Senate is key: Preserve the NH Advantage

The exact quote and circumstances have been beclouded by the years, but it is generally accepted that President Theodore Roosevelt, frustrated with the antics of his eldest daughter, once observed: “I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both.”

TWO OF New Hampshire’s most famous favorite sons were in the news this week, sort of.

It was nice to read in the most recent New Hampshire Sunday News that flu cases in 2020 have dropped to almost nothing. Doctors are pointing to the COVID-19 precautions of wearing masks, avoiding large gatherings and frequent handwashing as the reason for the lack of influenza cases.

New Hampshire police have a very difficult and often dangerous job keeping the citizens of our great state protected. We support them in their mission.

Gov. Chris Sununu has wisely revised New Hampshire COVID-19 vaccination protocols along the lines of KISS, an age-old acronym for Keep It Simple, Stupid.

Asked at his press conference last Thursday why teachers aren’t getting first priority for vaccinations, Gov. Chris Sununu noted that teachers deal with the age group least susceptible to the ravages of COVID-19. He also said that if a teacher is age 65 or over, or has serious health conditi…

Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Day in America. We wonder what the eloquent preacher and fearless practitioner of non-violent protest would have thought of the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Sorry, but we don’t buy the New Hampshire GOP’s “cutting the line” complaint against our two U.S. senators for getting vaccinated last week anymore than we buy the Democrat response that the Republicans had “crossed the line” by “viciously attacking female members of Congress.”

The state’s electronic message boards along our highways can be helpful in emergencies and when traffic backups warn that a different route might be in order. When not used for traffic information, however, things can get confusing.

The unintended consequence of well-meaning policy changes was on display in Manchester last week. The mayor and aldermen have had to propose an ordinance to ban the swapping of drug syringes in the city’s public parks.

Does the City of Manchester need a “homeless coordinator” for a cool $94,000 a year? Taxpayers need not worry about the cost, of course. The “feds” are picking up the tab. At least for now.

We don’t know about the students, but the Manchester School Board and district officials have real trouble with numbers. Just over two years ago, they paid an outside consultant to tell them they were going to need more space at the elementary level because those schools were overcrowded. Le…

The lack of proper security at the U.S. Capitol last week was frightening and appalling. Some called Jan. 6 a day, like Pearl Harbor, that will live in infamy. We agree. It should also invoke the equally historic phrase of “never again.”

Wednesday’s rioting and insurrection in Washington, D.C., underlined the importance of yesterday’s inaugural ceremonies in Concord being a public event. Indeed, the Washington spectacle makes it all the more vital that such business be conducted in public. Regrettably, Gov. Chris Sununu had …

It appears that Hillsborough County’s head jailer either has no clue about certain aspects of his command duties or no concerns about his job security. Perhaps it’s both.