Opinion
LETTER: Why would women vote for Trump and Vance?
Women of the Monadnock region, why would you vote for Donald Trump and J.D. Vance?Would you vote for any other candidate who has bragged about his role in restricting your right to choose if, how, and when to have a child and as a result has made it...
LETTER: Thank you, President Biden
President Joe Biden’s record over the past 3 1/2 years makes him one of the most-consequential leaders in our country’s history. Space allows only a brief and incomplete list of his accomplishments: creating more than 14 million jobs, preventing...
Letter: Happy 89th anniversary to Social Security
Each of us who depends on our earned Social Security benefits stands in salute to Social Security's 89th anniversary Aug. 14. Thanks to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins’ diligence in working for Social Security for our seniors. She saw the problems...
Viewpoint: Penny Culliton – New law has absurd potential
As New Hampshire teachers ready ourselves and our classrooms for the upcoming school year, a new law has cast a pall over those preparations.Recently, Gov. Chris Sununu signed HB 1312 into law, which unnecessarily and vaguely expands our state’s...
Letter: Parents want to choose
I guess the people opposed to letting Dublin and Francestown leave ConVal believe in bureaucracy and lawyers; we believe in democracy and parents to run the school system.They believe in paying $25,000 for a product when I can get that same product...
Letter: Vote for women’s rights
“Live Free or Die” is our state motto, but what happened at the State House when it came to a woman’s right to control her own body?It was a fundamental freedom, almost removed. Women’s health was under attack. Republican-sponsored HB1248 would have...
Letter: Free Staters ramp up attack on NH
"Where is Galt's Gulch? It's in New Hampshire!" That was the message last month from former Maine state Sen. Eric Brakey to the Freedom Fest in Las Vegas. Brakey moved here to lead the Free State Project to the next level. Their 88-plus New Hampshire...
Editorial – The first 175 years
The Monadnock Ledger-Transcript has delivered the news of the region for 175 years. The name on the banner has changed over the years, but the newspaper has remained the same in many ways, namely in our unwavering commitment to our community.Since our...
Viewpoint: Robert Beck – The challenge of the return of history
This is the third article in a series on key foreign policy challenges for the next U.S. president. The series will continue between now and the election on Nov. 5.In his influential 1992 work, “The End of History and the Last Man,” on the logical...
Viewpoint: – The case for Francestown to leave ConVal
By PATRICK TROY
I am the parent of four young children in Francestown and have closely followed the events that have transpired within ConVal over the past year. I have also joined Francestown’s education advisory committee that provides input to the Select Board and...
Letter: Thanks for making the Taste Of Monadnock a success
Our ninth annual Taste of Monadnock and Beyond fundraiser for Shelter From The Storm again went beyond our expectations.What a day! We were again blessed with beautiful weather, and our event would not have been the success it was without all of the...
Letter: Get to work
Republican lawmakers in New Hampshire and around our country have put forward waves of legislation that restrict transgender teenagers’ access to bathrooms, school sports and gender-affirming health care.Our governor recently signed legislation into...
Letter: ARPA money was not free
Several letters recently have praised the ARPA program. My town of Temple paid for some needed projects, and it appears our other towns have done the same. Wonderful. But one has to keep in mind that this money was not “free.”It was paid for by...
Letter: Help celebrate democracy
Twenty-five years ago, when she was 89 years old, Dublin resident Doris Haddock – famously known as “Granny D” – walked 3,200 miles across the United States. From Pasadena to Washington D.C., she put one foot in front of the other, carrying a petition...
Letter: Saturday in the park
There’s nothing like a stroll through lovely Putnam Park in downtown Peterborough. This Saturday, Aug. 3, the atmosphere will be enhanced by the Democracy Festival hosted by Open Democracy, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization established to continue...
Viewpoint: L. Phillips Runyon III – What’s in a name?
An oft-used political tactic has long been to attack an opponent with labels that are totally contrary to the opponent’s actual governing philosophy or performance, but which are intended to cause damage because voters have little understanding of the...
Letter: Thanks for help with transformation
The Kyes-Sage House Used Book Shop, located at 14 Concord St., has undergone a beautiful transformation this summer. This historic home, built in 1846 and owned by the Town of Peterborough, has been freshly painted and restored back to what is...
Letter: Beat electric inflation
In a recent PREP Talk (Ledger-Transcript July 23), Michael Nadeau warned that electric prices are likely to rise – not because electric generation will become more expensive, but because Eversource plans to increase the cost of delivering that...
Looking Back: Joseph Steinfield – My roadside nap and first responders
In the 1990s, a Houston orthodontist who snored invented an anti-snoring mouthpiece that moves the lower jaw forward to maintain an open airway while you’re asleep. I heard about this, contacted a Boston dentist who made a mold of my teeth and started...
Viewpoint: Robert Beck – The globalization of political violence
With the shocking assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13, the United States joined a growing list of Western democracies falling victim to the scourge of political violence. Just over two years...
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