Opinion

The following are excerpts from a letter sent Feb. 22 to House Speaker Terie Norelli by Portsmouth Reps. Jim Splaine and Paul McEachern. We ask you to authorize the House Commerce Committee to begin a formal inquiry into the process…

There is an old saying that goes, “If you marry a mountain girl, you marry the whole mountain.” For many of us, who live in the shadows of Mount Washington, we can’t separate the mountains from ourselves, or for that…

The founders of New Hampshire were religious people who understood the scripture’s call to aid the needy. They believed that government could be an instrument of God’s work and adopted laws to assist the poor even before New Hampshire became…

New Hampshire prides itself on having an open and transparent legislative process, where all who are interested and affected by public policy decisions benefit from the public-vetting process, including public hearings.In fact, New Hampshire requires that all bills introduced in…

Most of what has been written about the so-called “LLC Tax” is not true. A recent change in the law to close a loophole is being characterized as an unfair tax on the self-employed and small businesses, even though the…

The United States is the world’s leading maritime power but has tied its hands in the ability to act the part. Having the longest coastline and largest exclusive economic zone in the world, with jurisdiction over fisheries and mineral resources,…

Small businesses in New Hampshire are the economic backbone of our state, creating 65 percent of all new jobs. Now, Governor Lynch and the Democratic leadership in the Legislature inexplicably want to impose newly passed taxes on these entrepreneurs at…

As I watch the various perspectives and recaps of the last decade pop up in numerous media sources, I am struck by their lack of breadth.This has been a turbulent and eventful decade full of changes, issues, happenings, problems and…

Shortly after the atomization of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Albert Einstein wrote, “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”Einstein was, of course, talking about the “bomb” and…