THE HORRIFIC murder of 75-year-old Queen City native Daniel Whitmore by a vagrant provides an opportunity to assess what’s worked and what hasn’t as the city and state try to cope with the opioid crisis and the homeless invasion of Manchester that has come in its...
Sunday, September 11, 2022 Today’s edition of the New Hampshire Sunday News included their pre-primary Voter Guide. On the back page of the print edition, I published the first major ad of our campaign. It can be found online if you subscribe to the e-edition...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
