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Curb your cougar: Manchester's animal control
READER COMMENTS: 2Manchester will get back its second animal control officer come July 1. That is probably a good thing, given what seems to be an increase in wild varmints entering the city.
Hiding public business: This time it's Wilton-Lyndeborough
READER COMMENTS: 0What’s worse than a public body denying access to an investigator’s report that was paid for with taxpayer money?
Obama history: Watch out, Mt. Rushmore
READER COMMENTS: 3Until recently, you could go to the official website of the White House and find a brief biographical page on every American President. But now there's a twist.
Unfair trade: Obama stalls, China wins
READER COMMENTS: 8Unfair foreign trade hurts New Hampshire. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the state lost 16,300 jobs between 2001 and 2010 because of China's trade practices.
Killing CON: Pull the plug now
READER COMMENTS: 8The New Hampshire House of Representatives acted responsibly this spring in passing a bill to eliminate New Hampshire’s Certificate of Need (CON) law. So why did the Senate mess that up by...
Fled to Singapore: Not alone, either
READER COMMENTS: 37Before Facebook went public last week, co-founder Eduardo Saverin gave up his U.S. citizenship and became a citizen of Singapore. The move saved him a reported $67 million in taxes. As youthful...
Tech education: NH moves forward
READER COMMENTS: 2Three days before Facebook's big IPO, New Hampshire's public colleges and universities signed a commitment to double the number of technology, science, engineering and mathematics graduates by 2025.
Bloody boondoggle: Rhode Island's Schilling deal
READER COMMENTS: 8Low spending, low taxes beat "incentives" for economic growth.
What's in a name? 'A baby that has not yet been born'
READER COMMENTS: 17A national right-to-life group picked up on a turn of phrase last week that was odd, not for the phrase, but for the source.
Granny D Day? A step too far
READER COMMENTS: 6A day for Granny D?
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We should listen to Lamar Alexander
READER COMMENTS: 1Last week, Lamar Alexander proposed a budgeting swap that New Hampshire should support.
Another View -- Kathy Sullivan: Vaillancourt, Mead flaps eclipse 'war' on schools
READER COMMENTS: 6The Vaillancourt blow-up, and to a lesser extent, the Mead mini-scandal, overshadowed a more serious controversy: the war that has erupted against New Hampshire’s public schools. It is not just...
Big lies in politics
READER COMMENTS: 4The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us.
Another View: Senate must save NH's Circuit Court
READER COMMENTS: 0Why undo the new NH circuit court reforms?
Pat Buchanan: Has the bell begun to toll for the GOP?
READER COMMENTS: 7Among the more controversial chapters in “Suicide of a Superpower,” my book published last fall, was the one titled, “The End of White America.”
David Harsanyi: JPMorgan proves more rules not needed
READER COMMENTS: 2The unscrupulous can't win for losing, apparently.
Publisher's Notebook: Obama even at crossing of the Delaware?
READER COMMENTS: 9In case you missed it, Obama has been messing with the official biographies of past Presidents on a White House web site.
Scene In Manchester: Business and pleasure will mix at Arms Park fundraiser
READER COMMENTS: 0The abi Innovation Hub will prove that business doesn't have to be boring as it hosts a concert at Arms Park this Thursday. The Party at Arms, as it's being called, is a fundraiser for the Innovation...
A nightmare in Tewksbury, Mass.
READER COMMENTS: 6The injustice of civil forfeiture laws.
Same-sex marriage: empathy or right?
READER COMMENTS: 26On marriage, Obama has boxed himself into a corner.
Defining fairness in a big, modern society
READER COMMENTS: 1We no longer live in a small village.
David Harsanyi: The President's ridiculous 'to do' list
READER COMMENTS: 2Obama's make-believe seriousness in a "to-do list."
Media have shown themselves to be members of Team Obama
READER COMMENTS: 0Romney will not get a fair shake from the media.
The menace of bipartisanship
READER COMMENTS: 6Misplaced bipartisanship begets misplaced entitlements.
Ramesh Ponnuru: Facts do not support efforts to ban cell phone use while driving
READER COMMENTS: 0Should we ban cell phones in cars?
A small step for NH, a big step for our kids
READER COMMENTS: 2A very small step for the state will be a huge leap for individual students if the Legislature decides to adopt a modest school choice scholarship act today.
James Bennett and Matthew Stover: Chester College has always struggled while continuing to serve
READER COMMENTS: 2President Baines has the confidence of the Chester College Board of Trustees.
As the boomers head for the barn
READER COMMENTS: 2When the April figures on unemployment were released May 4, they were more than disappointing. They were deeply disturbing.