Every budget season has its familiar elements: Changing leaves, shorter days and a set of obligatory op-eds from budgeteer Bill Marvel designed to sow discontentment with our schools.
Last August, the school board debated amendments to the Conway School District's absentee policy. The proposed changes on excused absences seemed liberal enough at first glance, but they lacked a specific provision for parents to decide whether family activities warranted taking kids out of …
I’ve held my tongue on a matter I find incredibly disturbing, and now I fear I’ll be unleashing a diatribe. Blame my fellow columnist George Epstein, who this week commented on the matter, succinctly framing the offense in words that had heretofore eluded me. He begins, “There’s nothing wron…
On Nov. 6, readers of this paper saw an editorial and column placed side by side that, without meaning to, told the whole story of Conway’s planning dilemma.
At over $5 trillion, Nvidia is the world’s most valuable company. Jensen Huang, its long-time CEO, must be a genius, right? Well, maybe. Nvidia made the best chips for displaying cool graphics in computer games. It was a modest-sized, successful company. Then crypto mining became a thing. T…
DETROIT — Here in the Mariners' Church, planted in the shadow of the Renaissance Center at the corner of Woodbridge Street and Woodward Avenue, the gales of November seem to swirl in the air.
We always wonder whether mass protest movements will translate into decisive electoral outcomes. Following Tuesday’s vote, we have an answer.
I continue to be concerned with the undisclosed administrative activities regarding the proposed Rec Path 2. My concern is not about wanting a Phase 2 Rec Path or not wanting a Phase 2 Rec Path.
Abraham Lincoln made the presidency a pulpit. Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt transformed the office into an engine of big government. John F. Kennedy made it a platform of inspiration. Presidents routinely take the office they inherit and reshape it to their own tastes, focus it on their ow…
My right eye has a hunk of its vision field missing. My left eye is good. When I look at stuff there’s no hole in the picture. My brain uses all the data from both eyes and assembles it into a complete view. That’s what brains do — they organize all the information we’re bombarded with into …
Gov. Kelly Ayotte has assured residents that state services will experience “minimal impact” for about 30 days. But the early effects are already rippling through communities with large numbers of federal workers and tourism-based economies.
Loading the Dice
There’s been a lot of interesting dog news of late and/or news that pertains to my dogs. A study was published determining that a common opioid, Tramadol, is not as effective for easing pain as had been believed. I was way ahead of these folks, having come to the same conclusion some time ag…
Abraham Lincoln made the presidency a pulpit. Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt transformed the office into an engine of big government. John F. Kennedy made it a platform of inspiration. Presidents routinely take the office they inherit and reshape it to their own tastes, focus it on their ow…
After reading an Oct. 25 article in The Conway Daily Sun titled “Black Mountain gives police five days for docs,” I was taken aback, to say the least. I certainly understand the principles of open government and the validity of New Hampshire’s Right-to-Know law, RSA 91-A. We strive to fulfil…
Not so long ago, I still found the prospect of an impending road trip as tantalizing as it was in 1971, when I started across the country in a $125 beater that took me to the West Coast and back. Planning my route and loading the car always revived early childhood recollections of long drive…