Opinion & Humor

Knowing the Score

Don’t pull a Martha Coakley and be clueless about the home team.Six years ago I drove to Warner to meet a Congressional candidate for lunch — an environmental activist who authored a book on how the federal government should substitute…

Not Quite a Queen

Or "How I swallowed my bohemian pride and begged for donations."When I was 18 I was a Hospital Day Queen candidate.Most of the businesses in New London offered up some hapless damsel to run for queen and I was it…

Sphere of Influence

Concord may be a tiny planet, but just try to escape its gravity.A few years ago the planet most of us grew up calling Pluto got in trouble with the international scientific community. Some argued rather forcefully that Pluto, the…

The Past Underfoot

Chances are, history was not your favorite subject in high school. Even if you had a teacher who dressed up as Vasco Núñez de Balboa in an attempt to bring to life the crossing of the Isthmus of Panama, you,…

Letters to the Editor

Need A Good Reason to Spot the Newt? This month's lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a case of refreshing Nh20 Real NH Spring Water with assorted seasonal labels and two four-pocket totes from Chamberlain Springs: www.ChamberlainSpringsNh2o.comChamberlain Springs is…

Letters to the Editor

Need a Good Reason for Spotting the Newt?This month's lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a basket of N.H.-made items from White Mountain Attractions (www.visitwhitemountains.com) representing Attitash, Cannon Mountain, Clark's Trading Post, the Cog Railroad, the Conway Scenic Railroad,…

An Icon We Can All Look Down On

Those who regularly read this magazine are probably aware we have a mascot of sorts: the red-spotted newt. And those who have read the magazine for a long time are probably saying to themselves, “Enough with the the red-spotted newt,…

Old Man or Big Wind?

Could a tour of the state’s singularities cause some unintended consequences? As a kid growing up in the machine-polished state of Massachusetts, I considered New Hampshire something of a madman’s paradise. America’s answer to Australia — a land of assorted…

Letters to the Editor

Need a good reason to spot the newt?This month's lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a Bug Baffler shirt ($35)and pants ($25). Bug Baffler Inc. of Goffstown (www.bugbaffler.com) provides insect protective clothing for all outdoor activities. Keeps blackflies, mosquitoes…

Tea Time?

A movement may be brewing in our state. If the 1994 elections were about the angry white man, the 1996 elections were about soccer moms, the 2000 elections about office park dads, the 2004 elections about security moms and the…