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Athletes and PE: Give them credit for sports
READER COMMENTS: 5A young woman whose name most Manchester students have never heard is on the verge of changing the city’s health curriculum for the better.
The EPA's friend: It has a loyal ally in Shea-Porter
READER COMMENTS: 13Carol Shea-Porter confirms that she's on Washington's side.
Leading vs. following: Ayotte, Shaheen and the polls
READER COMMENTS: 23Do-nothing Shaheen vs. Energetic Ayotte.
The cupcake police: Stop! In the name of lard!
READER COMMENTS: 15City school board turns into the food police.
Page One Editorial: Obama is right
READER COMMENTS: 27President Obama is right about one thing. The Benghazi affair is about politics.
Taxed tips: Another NH revenue grab
READER COMMENTS: 9Since when do businesses owe taxes for wages they don't pay?
Gosnell and NH: The horror of late-term abortion
READER COMMENTS: 8What Gosnell's murders mean.
Bridging the night: Bright ideas in Portsmouth
READER COMMENTS: 0Drive I-93 to or from Boston at night, and one of the most stunning sights is the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, flashed in bright blue by electric lights blazing below. Portsmouth's...
Shameful: Obama's Benghazi dishonesty
READER COMMENTS: 29President Obama took the low road on Monday and tried to use U.S. diplomats serving overseas as human shields in what is becoming an intense barrage of questions about how his administration handled...
Hassan’s stunt: Northern Pass and priorities
READER COMMENTS: 15Last week Gov. Maggie Hassan engaged in a publicity stunt disguised as an effort to stand up for New Hampshire. It failed.
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David Harsanyi: Get the IRS out of the speech business altogether
READER COMMENTS: 9Why does the IRS have the power it has over speech?
Another View -- Ryan Gallagher: The U.S. government spies on reporters all too frequently
READER COMMENTS: 4The recent case with the AP is not the first time U.S. authorities have adopted draconian surveillance tactics to uncover journalists’ confidential sources.
John Stossel: Who has true grit anymore?
READER COMMENTS: 0Do your kids have that much grit today? I doubt it. Parents now try to protect kids from all danger. In New York City, some won’t let teenagers go to school by themselves.
Another View: New Hampshire would take a risky bet on casinos
READER COMMENTS: 6Consider the costs of gambling.
Ramesh Ponnuru: In flextime fight, liberals play to their stereotype
READER COMMENTS: 0Flextime rules need to be modernized.
Jonah Goldberg: Benghazi's smoking guns
READER COMMENTS: 1On Benghazi, there is a "there there."
Charles Arlinghaus: Screeching lies does not count as debate
READER COMMENTS: 2Screaming and misleading is the hallmark of too much of today's politics.
Another View: Nashua does need to conduct its own review of commuter rail
READER COMMENTS: 1Why Nashua should examine commuter rail on its own.
George Will: Forgetting the lessons of Watergate
READER COMMENTS: 0Watergate and Obama.
Another View: Sen. Ayotte is doing the right thing on gun violence
READER COMMENTS: 22We're glad that Sen. Kelly Ayotte is at the table, putting her experience as a prosecutor and attorney general to good use.
Pat Buchanan: Requiem for the Grand Old Party
READER COMMENTS: 6Has the bell begun to toll for the GOP?
Thomas Sowell: Politicians, like kids, pursue goals but ignore consequences
READER COMMENTS: 1If you are driving along and suddenly see a big red rubber ball come bouncing out into the street, you might want to put your foot on the brake pedal, because a small child may well come running out...
Your Turn, NH: Gov. Hassan, do you care about the severely disabled like me?
READER COMMENTS: 3Why grow-your-own marijuana is needed in New Hampshire.
Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: Up here, or down South, it pays to be clear
READER COMMENTS: 3It pays to be clear. Our company's vice president for advertising accompanied me to a meeting of independently owned newspapers in Charleston, S.C., earlier this month.
Carol Shea-Porter: Protecting Great Bay is a national responsibility
READER COMMENTS: 7The EPA knows how to protect the Great Bay.
Jonah Goldberg: Bad faith and Benghazi
READER COMMENTS: 0Yes, the Obama administration deceived us about Benghazi.
Roger Simon: Profiling school shooters and assassins is futile
READER COMMENTS: 2It seems so obvious: If we do a comprehensive study of domestic terrorists, assassins, school shooters and violent stalkers, we can come up with a "profile" of who they are. Then law enforcement can...
George Will: On immigration, ghosts of Christmas past
READER COMMENTS: 0Complex and consequential, immigration policy should not be made hurriedly. But neither should it be made out of a fatalistic despair about economic dynamism that better immigration policies might...
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Greg Moore: NH must end war on energy consumers
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Danielle Curtis: In education, money counts: NH’s top schools often have the lowest amounts of poverty
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Jim Kenyon: Award winning dairy farm for sale
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John E. Sununu: U.S. workforce continues to dwindle
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Judd Gregg: The perils of populism
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NH Nurse Assoc. president: Medicaid expansion spreads coverage, reduces costs
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Jim McAleese on Sequestration and the Future of the F-35 Program
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Reese Ramponi - Hierarchies: Examining class at Dartmouth
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Forbes - Tim Worstall: The Liberator plastic gun and The export regulations take down of it
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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen: NH taxpayers can afford to help vaccinate children all around the world
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Grant Bosse: New Hampshire politics in the age of professional outrage
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Judd Gregg: Ex-governors hold the keys to progress on debt deal
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Wonkette: Very lucid NH legislator could just tell those blowed-off Boston legs were faked by evil government
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Boston Globe: Tremblay - The paranoid style in N.H. politics?
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Sentinel Source: Legislators can end Liquor Commission secrecy
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Director sees Manchester airport poised for growth
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HuffPo - James Heffernan: Getting bombed at Dartmouth
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Keene Sentinel: NH Attorney General's Office defaults to secrecy
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Dana Belcher: NH hotels lose money when FAA plays politics
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HuffPo - Caren Z. Turner: The dirty thirty of the women's movement
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John E. Sununu: A determined Max Baucus, now unleashed
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Our view: Cheers for a young man's selfless gift
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New Hampshire Supreme Court holds settlement of termination dispute violates statute