Cook on Concord

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…

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).…

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…

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.”…

To the editor: Jim Roche’s warning in the June 5-18 edition of NHBR that “recent (legislative) policy decisions are resulting in growing unease among businesspeople” is too late. The horse is already out of the barn. New Hampshire, which ranked…

To the editor: I am a home-care nurse from Rochester, and I just returned from a trip to Capitol Hill with nurses from every state in America. We were there on behalf of our patients to help preserve access to…

To the editor: There seems to be an overwhelming misconception surrounding the New Hampshire Lakes Association’s Lake Host program, that it is somehow a state-run program. This is incorrect. New Hampshire Lakes Association (NH LAKES) is a member-supported, 501(c)3 conservation…

To the editor: I am writing in response to an action taken by the Senate Finance Committee in the very early morning hours of Thursday, May 28, to “unfund” the New Hampshire Commission on the Status of Women. The commission…

To the editor: While the state of New Hampshire faces an enormous and critical budget shortfall and needed services go lacking, jobs continue to disappear, businesses and families struggle, and more homes are being foreclosed every day. A new source…

To the editor Two points: One, the momentum for equal marriage continues to grow in New England. Two, the only region in which the Republican Party has any strength is the old Confederacy. I stand by my article on Lincoln…