Cook on Concord

Why AARP backs House health reform bill

To the editor: AARP continues fighting for health reform that provides stable, affordable health coverage options for all Americans and protects Medicare for seniors and for future generations. We believe the House of Representatives' Affordable Health Care for America Act…

Divergent views from Sununu and Buckley

The chairs of the state Democratic and Republican parties recently addressed business leaders on the New Hampshire economy, government and politics. What Republican John H. Sununu and Democrat Raymond Buckley said painted very different pictures of the state and its…

Good for the goose, good for the gander?

To the editor: The liberal progressive Democrats tell us they want health-care coverage for all Americans. They have run three bills through the U.S. House committees and one through the Senate committees. In the Senate, amendments have been proposed that…

N.H. needs its own academic standards

To the editor: The 10th Amendment of the Constitution states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The federal…

Let’s speak of prudent use

To the editor: I have no big quarrel with the state veterinarian’s comments about livestock production and antibiotics. I wish only to refocus everything that Stephen Crawford says about risk in his op-ed (“Livestock production and antibiotics,” June 17-30 NHBR).…

A victory for homeowners

To the editor: On behalf of the New Hampshire Association of Realtors, the state’s leading advocate for homeowners, I’d like to thank state legislators for their tireless and mostly thankless efforts in working diligently to pass a budget during these…

‘Where are the women?’

To the editor: We keep hearing about the ARRA (the economic stimulus package) money pouring into New Hampshire and other states. I heard the other day that “New Hampshire is leading other New England states in getting that money out.”…