Opinion & Humor

Free Digital Photo Filter

Back in the days when photography used actual film that cost money to buy and even more to develop, it was risky business handing your camera to a kid. To the juvenile eye, almost anything seems like a suitable target…

Welcome, Presidential Hopefuls

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…

Land of the Free

We take our liberties pretty seriously here.One hundred and fifty years ago shots were fired at Fort Sumter outside of Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War had begun.The Civil War has been called America's Second Revolutionary War. The question of…

Letters to the Editor

Need a good reason for spotting the newt?This month's lucky (and fearless) newt spotter will receive a lovely Peterboro basket from the Peterboro Basket Company, compliments of NH Made. Peterboro baskets have been manufactured here in New Hampshire for more…

Popularity Contest

How Gov. Lynch serves up such sweet victories.Democrat John Lynch made history last fall when he was elected to a fourth term in office, the first governor of this state to do so in nearly 200 years. This wasn't the…

Letters to the Editor

Need a good reason for spotting the newt? How about two good reasons?This month's lucky (and fearless) newt spotters will receive this handcrafted and locally designed silk floral door décor from Ideas In Bloom LLC, planned with spring in mind…

Community Impact

Words are a bit like sponges. They can soak up all kinds of meaning and significance from the world around them or they can get squeezed dry from overuse. Take "community," a word that once meant a group of people…

Bronto Size Me

Even 11-year-olds know the new foodspeak.Recently a friend asked me to join her for a cup of coffee. We were catching up while moving with the line at the counter when suddenly, mid-conversation, she turned to the coffee-loompa and rambled…

Political Science?

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…

Stops Along the Way

So I flew to Iowa to pick my daughter Elizabeth up from school, help her pack up and clean out her dorm room. Then we began the long drive home in her car. Before we left we stopped at my…