By and large, the 2026 session of the New Hampshire legislature is over.

CONCORD — During the Committee of Conference phase of this year’s legislative session, 14 bills were killed ranging from the “Charlie Act” seeking to restrict school curriculum on such things as socialism, LGBTQ topics, or anything that appears to some as Un-American to ending the state’s re…

CONCORD — As Memorial Day weekend approaches and many Granite Staters prepare for summer road trips, rising gasoline prices are increasing pressure on household budgets and could also create longer-term challenges for maintaining New Hampshire’s roads and bridges, according to a new analysis…

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. But if we’re being honest, awareness is the easy part.

In 1860 and 1948, two election years when racial issues predominated, there were two Democratic parties, each with its own nominee: John C. Breckinridge and Stephen A. Douglas in the 19th century, and Harry Truman and Strom Thurmond in the 20th. There arguably were two Democratic parties in …

For more than a decade, New Hampshire has been learning a simple lesson: children do better when we reach them early, serve them close to home, and reserve locked facilities for only the most serious cases. That lesson did not come out of nowhere. It grew out of years of reform efforts to re…

As part of the “ICEBREAKERS,” a legal team of retired attorneys formed by the North Country Immigrant Rights Coalition, I participated in authoring a similar letter to this one, sent out to Gorham, Berlin, and many New Hampshire communities. Our legal conclusions have since been verified by …

As everyone who is committed to protecting our environment knows, every day is Earth Day. Protecting our planet, our state and our communities’ natural environments, is a year-round task. The New Hampshire Association of Conservation Commissions (NHACC) and each of its member commissions, ar…

War is a great engine of change, sweeping aside assumptions, toppling established power relationships, driving new forces into play, rearranging long-held theories and challenging orthodoxies. That happened in six years of fighting in World War II, in the seven days of the 1967 Middle East W…

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With the Dow Jones stock market index at about 47,000 it is interesting to see how far it has come since May 7, 1929, when it hit a high of 326 for the 1920s. But just a half a year later on Nov. 8 its value fell to 198.

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Suddenly Donald Trump, who arguably has some mastery of the business arts, is in defiance of one of the fundamental principles of his trade: Hope is not a strategy.

The political climate in New Hampshire took a dark turn this month as lawmakers were in the middle of the last year of the current two-year term.

By Richard Gilman

By Dr. Brian Beals, pediatrician, Coos County Family Health Services