Search Results

Keyword search: Letter to the Editors

Concord has been keeping busy this spring with busy bills—like HB-524 (anti-vaccine), HB-115 (anti-education), and HB-148 (anti-trans). These busy bills give lawmakers an open mic for fear-mongering and false narratives about imaginary enemies and you can watch it on YouTube by searching the bill numbers with "NH" as experts are often mocked and ignored.

I have been a teacher at Conval High School for 28 years. Outside of school, I have also run an ethics seminar for the past 15 years. During that time, I have encouraged young people to get involved in community events.

I am a cisgendered woman writing about HB 148 – the bill that classifies based on “biological sex” in lavatory facilities or locker rooms and in “prisons, houses of correction, juvenile detention or commitment centers, mental health hospitals or treatment centers and like facilities to which persons may be committed involuntarily.” Recently, Judge Reyes spoke on Executive Order 14183 that states “sex shall refer to an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female.” She shared the fact that there are more than 30 variations in genetic gender composition. XX or XY are not the only options, therefore EO 14183 is based on a scientifically proven inaccuracy. The same is true of HB 148.

HB 675, currently before the NH state Legislature, caps all school district budgets at 2026 levels, with inflation-based adjustments only.

Many today at risk of losing their Social Security benefits will remember the Charlie McCarthy/Edgar Bergen show and relate to its parallel performance in today’s White House. The only problem is distinguishing who is speaking and who is the dummy.

For more than 30 years, my husband has lived with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Until five years ago, I didn’t know much about Medicaid. That changed when my husband suffered several significant MS exacerbations that led to hospital and rehab stays.

I respectfully disagree with Jonah Wheeler’s position on HR148. First, “safety” is used as an argument for having bathroom use restricted to the gender assigned at birth. I strongly suspect that transgender women forced to use a male bathroom face a far greater risk of physical and emotional violence from anti-trans males than do cis women encountering transgender women in a women’s bathroom. People may feel uncomfortable, yes, but this is not the same as risk.

From 2015 to 2023, I led a community that welcomes LBTQ people. I helped the Pride movement. I would like to continue discussions on supporting trans women without putting women and girls at risk.

I was both dismayed and disappointed to learn that our representatives voted for the so-called "bathroom bill," but I was particularly dismayed with the excerpts of Rep. Jonah Wheeler's speech. A bogus argument like the one in his speech (women, even one, need to "feel safe" in the bathroom) has been used many times to argue for discrimination against minorities. For example, in the name of "feeling safe," Blacks in this country were at one time unfairly excluded from bathrooms, lunch counters and buses. Likewise, Chinese and other minority families were redlined into certain districts in cities and towns, and Irish immigrants were deprived of schooling and job opportunities. Wheeler also ignores the need for a transgender man or woman to "feel safe.”

On Friday, March 14, an executive order was issued calling for the reduction and elimination of key functions of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), an independent federal agency that supports libraries and museums across all 50 states and U.S. territories. This decision will have a significant impact on residents of New Ipswich and communities throughout New Hampshire.

To Manhattan's southernmost shore, Trump carried his cultural war. To Miss Liberty, said, ('Neath the crown on his head),"Just who do you think that you are?"

With apologies to Bob Dylan.

Well, congratulations, the dog has caught the car. It’s going to be interesting to see how the guy who has a long history of yelling at selectman’s meetings will fare when faced with the actual job of running the town.

I thank Sen. Maggie Hassan for her vote for Dr. Marty Makary to lead the FDA. I have long been concerned about the declining health of Americans and especially our children, the prioritization of “how to pay for” disease treatment over investment in upstream disease prevention and the conflicts of interest in and corruption of our medical and scientific agencies.

In 2012, Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas introduced the radical “Kansas Experiment” in which state business taxes were eliminated and individual income taxes were slashed to the bone.

The recent article (“Dublin solar project put on hold due to funding concerns”) highlighting the hold on the installment of solar panels on Dublin Fire Department's roof is disappointing to say the least. Hardworking community members worked countless weeks to put together a proposal that gained community support, submitted a grant that was approved and funded and eagerly awaited the project only to have it put on hold.

I am a retired homeowner in Jaffrey who is finding it difficult to keep up with the property tax burden in this state fueled by regressive taxation and, most recently, by the ever-rising cost of education vouchers.

I would like to urge Greenville residents to research the Mascenic School Board members running for election on March 11.

Misinformation is harmful, and difficult to undo. In a recent letter to the editor (“ConVal costs to be decided,” Feb. 25), a respected voice in our region, Jeanne Dietsch, opined on the proposed withdrawal of Francestown (and Dublin) from the ConVal School District.

I urge all New Ipswich voters to reject Article 2, the zonign ordinance amendment regarding cluster subdivisions. 

To quote Benjamin Franklin, the father of our public libraries, “These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries.”