Opinion & Humor

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Live Free: Chicken Farmer, We Love You (Still)

Mark Hayward,

What is the value of a single word? As a writer, I have suffered while editors eliminated phrases, sentences, even entire pages. So the deletion of a mere, likely superfluous, word is acceptable, even welcome. Yet, in other circumstances, the…

Letters to the Editor

New Hampshire Magazine Staff,

Need a good reason to spot the newt?This month's lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a Totally Awesome Gourmet Popcorn basket valued at $75 from Michele's Sweet Shoppe of Epsom (www.nhpopcorn.com). Michele's trademarked motto is "The proof is in…

Political Science?

New Hampshire Magazine Staff,

The Granite State isn't eager to serve as a national lab rat.States, in theory, are supposed to be the "laboratories of democracy." The challenge of how to solve some of the nation's biggest problems is supposed to be undertaken by…

Welcome, Presidential Hopefuls

New Hampshire Magazine Staff,

A fun-filled day awaits you in beautiful Frost Heaves, N.H.Lately, we've had a bumper crop of politicians traipsing through New Hampshire, people you never heard of hoping to use their successful stint as the Louisiana Commissioner of Mattress Safety as…

Ten Years Later

New Hampshire Magazine Staff,

I guess everyone has a 9/11 story. I was driving to our brand-new offices of New Hampshire Magazine in Manchester when I heard something on the radio about a plane crash at the World Trade Center. It was our first…

Missing Markers

New Hampshire Magazine Staff,

At least it's better than you can't get there from here.Person from Away: "How do I get to John and Mary Smith's house?"New Hampshire Native: "Keep on down this road and take a left where the apple tree used to…