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By NARAIN BATRA
The whole world watched the naked face of terror incarnate on the early morning of Oct. 7. Hamas launched a most barbaric and horrendous attack on Israel, with thousands of rockets and hundreds of gunmen across the border from the Gaza Strip. The...
By DAN MACKIE
I’m a sap for nostalgia, so the feelings started flowing recently when I happened upon an online discussion about Upper Valley businesses we miss. I’m not sure why memory attaches to certain stores, but it does, like a sticky spill on aisle 2.I’m not...
By MICKI COLBECK
The little dogs and I went for a hike yesterday. We go hiking most days, but this one was different. I had been feeling tense and distracted from some conflicts in town in which I was a major player. Hiking trails versus snowmobile trails. It was...
By WILLEM LANGE
It’s for years irritated me that my fellow countrymen know so little about their next-door neighbor to the north. When my friends and I in the Geriatric Adventure Society first began traveling to the Arctic for our biennial canoe trips on the...
By PAUL STEINHAUSER
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been absent from New Hampshire for two months, but the Republican presidential candidate says he’ll be spending plenty of time in the first primary state going forward.“We’re going to do everything that you need to do to...
By PAUL STEINHAUSER
Haley has been holding a slew of town halls and other campaign events in New Hampshire, as well as Iowa – whose caucuses lead off the GOP nominating calendar – and her home state of South Carolina, which holds the first southern primary.Haley stands...
By MARY K. OTTO
It was early June before my husband and I finally arrived at our log cabin in Maine where we would again spend the summer. As usual, we looked forward to the joys we knew awaited us. There would be days with children and grandchildren, visits with...
By WAYNE GERSEN
Despite my efforts to squelch unwelcome correspondence from Ron DeSantis’ campaign, I continue to receive his glossy mailers. One side of his latest missive boasts that unlike his predecessors, Ron DeSantis would be willing to pull the trigger on...
By RANDALL BALMER
Any honest appraisal of American Christianity in the twenty-first century is sobering. Survey data and anecdotal evidence agree that Christianity is losing its hold on American life. A majority of Americans still regard themselves as Christian, but...
By DAN MACKIE
Have you thought about ancient Rome today? That is an odd question, related to one of the oddest trend stories I’ve encountered on the internet.An online social influencer recently urged followers to ask the men in their life how often they think...
By DAN MACKIE
Presidential primary season is upon us, as it is every four years. Little deal New Hampshire gets to feel like a big deal and local pols hope to catch a rising star and win a key post in the next administration.As a longtime New Hampshire voter, I...
By NARAIN BATRA
Recently, when the leaders of G-20 countries including President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Japan Prime Minster Fumio Kishida, and others were meeting in New Delhi,...
By WAYNE GERSEN
This just in: Climate change is not a hoax! As I was this essay, the lead story on my phone’s news feed was “Hurricane Lee forecast to become strongest Atlantic storm so far this year.” Thursday’s Valley News featured a front-page picture of Judy...
By RANDALL BALMER
Is there anything discernibly “Christian” about the Religious Right? If the answer is no — and I think it is — why do journalists and pundits persist in referring to the political movement overwhelmingly populated with white evangelicals as the...
By WILLEM LANGE
Wednesday, 7/30, 10 p.m. Cold, rainy, windy. Still windbound. Blew hard all day. Fished up and down the canyon with Baird, slept, read. Can’t move till the wind dies. Bob’s barometer still dropping. Half the fuel is gone, and we’ve seen barely a...
By NARAIN BATRA
Very soon, in a week or so, thousands and thousands of young people would be flocking to campuses across the country hoping to build a bright future for themselves, which would also shape the nation in this age of Generative Artificial Intelligence...
By MICKI COLBECK
“Let’s wade out here. I feel sure we’ll find some Isoetes away from shore.” our instructor, botanist Robbin Moran said joyfully as we followed him into the lake, pants rolled up, magnifiers in hands, heads down. We were searching for an elusive,...
By WAYNE GERSEN
As one of the 46% of Americans who have a family member or friend who struggles with chemical dependency, I view the reporting on Hunter Biden’s misdeeds as a missed opportunity to educate the half of the country who does not view addiction as a...
By MARY K. OTTO
Especially during summers in Maine, I am inspired by poet and essayist Mary Oliver. Yes, we share the name Mary. We both grew up in the Midwest and easily came to love the ocean as adults. Reading and writing have been central, deeply satisfying...
By DAN MACKIE
A funny thing happened on the way to a DHMC operating room. On the morning of July 26, as I pondered my fate on a hospital gurney, a medical professional asked me if I knew “exactly” why I was there that day.I chuckled. “If I wasn't here,” I said, “my...
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