Opinion

N.H. would be hurt by climate change deal

With a skeptical American public already rising up against a cap-and-trade scheme that would send energy prices through the roof, a whistleblower at the influential Climate Research Unit revealing that the temperature data used to make the case for global…

In search of true health reform

There are too many Americans without health insurance. For those with health insurance, the escalating cost of keeping it is unsustainable. Unfortunately, the current legislation being debated in Congress is neither sustainable nor practical.The legislation fails to address the true…

Put people over profits

Recently, the national Chamber of Commerce and big health insurance companies have been running television ads across New Hampshire attacking me and the health-care plan I was proud to support a few weeks ago.Their attacks are full of false claims…

Drive-by tax-and-spending

Just when you thought that the Democrats at the State House in Concord were done taxing us, here they go again.Last month the House Transportation Committee, along strict party lines, voted to pass a bill creating yet another fee –…

$15 million to burn on a courthouse

The state is awash in red ink. Everywhere you look there are new taxes and fees, while existing taxes and fees have been substantially increased. And to top it all off, the Legislature just held a “tax summit” to talk about…

The road to an income tax

Years from now, if the citizens of New Hampshire are seeing income taxes taken out of their paychecks, they will be able look back to the week of Oct. 19, 2009, in “tax history” as the turning point — a…

USA Springs opponents aren't ‘idiots'

<font size=1>Editor's note: The following letter was sent to Alan Braunstein, an attorney involved in the bankruptcy reorganization of USA Springs, by Steve Conklin of Barrington, a member of the Barrington Water and Sewage Committee and an opponent of the…

An apology for Kate Alterman

I was first introduced to Kate Alterman during law school, though I didn't know her name for many years. She was an immigrant girl who worked in the factories of New York. It was her work in a particular factory…