A little over a month ago, LRGHealthcare announced it was following State of New Hampshire guidelines to cancel elective and non-urgent services and was temporarily closing the majority of outpatient services. As you may recall, this decision was driven by two public health needs and one fin…

It is a fine investment of time for a lawyer, or a citizen, to read the opinions of Justice Robert H. Jackson, whose brilliant legal career began with the Nuremburg trials. He went on to become the only person to serve as Solicitor General, Attorney General and as a Supreme Court Justice. Wo…

A group of residents in my little town of Sandwich has been brainstorming for the better part of a year on ways they can tackle humankind’s biggest challenge. They call themselves the Sandwich Climate Action Coalition.

Back in 1927, Belgian college professor and Roman Catholic Priest Georges Lemaître opined that prior to what we now call the “Big Bang,” there was no time, no space, no night, no day, and no universe, only a single gaseous mass. Lemaitre believed that (about 13.7 billion years ago) the mass …

The announcement last week that LRGHealthcare was temporarily suspending the majority of outpatient services as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic was received with much disbelief and some anger. While the message was a surprise to many, the concept of a shutdown of health care services at LR…

In our current health crisis we all have to do what we can to make our country and our state as safe as possible for everyone; this civic responsibility includes a special duty to the poor, homeless and elderly. Your Belknap County commissioners are obligated to do everything we can to make …

The novel coronavirus has made clear who in this country actually runs things.

To fight the coronavirus at home, France is removing all military forces from Iraq.

Milan is the V-8 engine of Italy's economy. Known as an industrial and financial powerhouse, Milan is also famous for its foul air. Now the city and its region, Lombardy, have become the epicenter of Europe's coronavirus pandemic. To stop the virus' spread, factories, offices, restaurants an…

As we get report after report on the Coronavirus as it spreads across the globe, our minds get filled with information about something that may or may not affect or infect us. The fact that the virus represents a global threat is almost beyond comprehension, as we normally think in much more…

We are now officially dealing with a pandemic. No one but the president thought a $2.5 billion program would be enough to address the threat. Congress — not only the Democratic House but also the Republican Senate — nearly quadrupled the appropriation, even as health officials around the cou…

The Democrat presidential candidate list has been pared down substantially as a number of candidates dropped out after the “Super Tuesday” results were tallied. Among the now recently departed are Senator Warren, Mayor Bloomberg, Senator Klobuchar, Mayor Buttigieg, Tom Steyer, and others. On…

Mike Bloomberg was elected New York mayor two months after the outrage of Sept. 11, 2001. He took over a city reeling with grief and suffering economic losses tied to the terrorist attacks. Rather than lay off public workers who had performed gallantly in the crisis, he raised taxes on the w…

As this writer’s wife often reminds him, “ANYBODY can be nice.”

What will it take for the Democrat Party to put forth someone who has a chance of defeating President Trump in the next election? After watching the most recent Democrat candidate free for all, it appears the group is more interested in destroying each other than they are in putting forth a …