Opinion

The planned destruction of Medicaid

Since the Republican Senate health care bill was released, there has been much discussion about its worst aspects. Is it the cutting 22 million people off health insurance? Is it doing away with pre-existing condition protections? Or is it the…

An education guarantee from New Hampshire

Regardless of where you come from, the ability to access and receive a high-quality education is the key to success. The dream of an accessible education will now become a reality for many New Hampshire youngsters, thanks to a new…

Infrastructure: It’s not sexy, but it matters

Often we rely on those hashtags, texts, selfies and tweets to communicate, but they don’t appear via magic. It takes more than just millions of lines of programming code to make these happen – it takes communication towers, fiber-optic cables…

Leading NH to a successful future

New Hampshire continues to hold true to its motto, first coined by Revolutionary War General John Stark, “Live Free or Die.” During the legislative session that recently came to a close, we looked to our “live free or die” New…

How Democrats lost the white working class

Social science research does not often make news. One exception was the study by two Princeton University researchers, Anna Case and Angus Deaton, that showed that middle-aged white Americans were dying younger. Suicide, alcoholism and drug overdoses are an increasing…