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“Business is not the Enemy”

Two months ago, New Hampshire’s unemployment rate was 2.6%. The unemployment rate is now 17 percent, and on Thursday a deputy commissioner for employment security said it probably will hit 20%.

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Press Release: NH Joins Graduate Together Ceremony

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 15, 2020 [cid:691b5c9d-e573-44d7-9035-9a9ed1e7fab8] Contact: Grant Bosse (603) 271-0448 office (603) 513-3030 cell NH joins Graduate Together ceremony Celebrating the Class of 2020 Saturday at 8pm CONCORD- The New Hampshire Department of Education is pleased to partner with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and XQ Institute in support of … Read more

Mask Theater

Reopen NH Decries Security Theater of Mask Wearing

ReopenNH Says ‘No Thank You’ to Restrictions, Urges People To Start Living As Normal

EAST DERRY, N.H.— On the eve of the governor’s expected ruling to extend his State of Emergency for another 21 days, 178 Democrats sent a tyrannical letter demanding the governor issue orders requiring all Granite Staters to wear masks in public.

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How many stories won’t be told?

A young man contacted me last week about how desperately he wants to visit his dying mother in the hospital to care for her during what’s possibly her final days, but the hospital wouldn’t let him in based on the governor’s emergency orders. Neither he nor his mother has Covid-19.

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Agriculture, anxiety, and aspirations

As I sit here this morning sipping on a hot coffee (decaf black for those who ponder such things) and overlooking the beautiful landscape that is Loudon Ridge and the lands to the west, I can’t help but reflect and ponder about how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed all our lives. For some the change … Read more

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Op-Ed – I Implore you, Governor Sununu, OPEN NH!

Two nights ago I walked into my bedroom to find my 16-year-old daughter sitting cross-legged, hunched over on my bed, tears running down her pale face, sobs coming out of her mouth. She doesn’t want to go on with school work, communicating, or with life in general.

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NH Needs to Look to Wastewater Testing for Coronavirus Now

The “novel” Coronavirus requires novel approaches, both analytical and remedial. Despite hearing repeatedly about “how much we don’t yet know” about Covid-19, from just about everyone in government, media, and medicine, we are regularly subjected to the same old, tired refrain:

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"Beer Caucus Founders at the 2019 Inaugural Ball. (l-r) Tim Lang, Mike Moffett, Howard Pearl, and Reed Panasiti."

A Tale of Two New Hampshires

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.” (“A Tale of Two Cities”). Charles Dickens’ words may aptly be applied to 2020 New Hampshire vs. 2010 New Hampshire—an age of wisdom vs. and age of foolishness re: state fiscal policy.

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Give Golf a chance!

One understands the tendency of elected and appointed officials to err on the side of caution when it comes to public policy and pandemics. One also understands the concept of social distancing, quarantines, flattening the curve, and minimizing the risks associated with COVID-19.

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