Brief Reflections on 9-11

On September 11, 2001, I was running for mayor and in my campaign office. I was listening to The Dan Pierce Show on WGIR-AM when I heard him announce that the North Tower of the World Trade Center had been hit by a plane. What was, in the moment, an oddity became...

Girard signs taxpayer pledges, earns top candidate score

Manchester, NH September 6, 2022–District 20 State Senate candidate Richard Girard (R-Ward 2) announced he’s signed two taxpayer association pledges and earned a perfect candidate score from a third taxpayer organization. At a recent event hosted by the...

Does D’Allesandro support Biden’s student debt bailout?

“Count me among those who believe the President should focus on executive action.”  That’s what state Senator Lou D’Allesandro wrote in May.  He wrote a lot of other interesting things, too.  Please take a read! Anyway, Biden’s used his...

Girard Op Ed: Democrats and D’Allesandro can’t dodge their records

The article below was written for the Union Leader and was published there on August 19 2022.   RECENTLY, STATE Sen. Lou D’Allesandro (D-Manchester) co-authored a fairytale in which he and Sen. Suzanne Prentiss (D-Lebanon) attributed the state’s $430 million...

NH stood tall at Gettysburg–Why that should matter today

During my family vacation last week, we spent a day at Gettysburg.  Being a bit of a Civil War buff, I could have easily spent the entire week there.  It was breathtaking.  (Please note that my photos of the monuments are at the end of this post.) After an all too...