Author: Daniel Weeks

17 steps toward a better year in 2017

Ways to make our communities and our country a little bit better

Democracy is missing from pipeline debate

The vast majority of Granite Staters can’t afford to hire lobbyists or candidates of their own

How we can all fix it

Leading candidates on both sides of the aisle are agreed that big money is corrupting our democracy

Let’s face the facts about democracy in NH

A new report finds that the storybook version doesn’t exist for the vast majority

Granny D's long walk for democracy continues

15 years later, citizens haven’t given up fighting for reform

Time to rebel against big money in politics

Five years after the Citizens United decision, elections for public office have become a private good

The political campaign that could have been

The vast majority of voters say they hate negative ads, and their hatred does not stop there

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Renewable energy is a smart business strategy

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Derry, Salem methadone clinics under investigation

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Exeter residents file lawsuit against RiverWoods

More than 100 residents are suing the town and RiverWoods over a proposed “massive” health care facility they say would disrupt the character of their neighborhood.

Trump tariffs add to woes for coffee shops

Rising tariffs on Brazilian coffee beans are squeezing Concord’s Brothers Cortado, driving costs up and margins down

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Amid Claremont crisis, Pittsfield school district works to dig out of its own million-dollar hole

As a crippling financial crisis uncovered in recent weeks in Claremont makes headlines, Pittsfield, too, is reckoning with a budget shortfall of more than a million dollars as a new school year gets underway. Pittsfield’s deficit, discovered early this year, is roughly $1.8…