Daily Archives: August 24, 2017
Four NH businesses recognized for support of breastfeeding moms
The New Hampshire Breastfeeding Task Force recently awarded Southwestern Community Services, Goodwin Community Health, W.S. Badger and Hannaford’s Supermarket in Plymouth for their lactation support programs. All four businesses received the Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace award for developing a breastfeeding policy, … Continue reading
Racial bias concerns still linger at UNH
DURHAM — Senior Megan Esperance, incoming co-chair of the Black Student Union, had never feared for her safety on the 91-percent white University of New Hampshire campus – until this past spring. “Going to Holloway Commons (dining hall), I was … Continue reading
NH Fugitive Caught Hiding Inside Apartment
This week’s U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force Fugitive of the Week is behind bars, according to Deputy Marshal Jeffrey White. Adam Walter Searles, 28, was arrested on Aug. 24, 2017, on an outstanding arrest warrant issued back in May by the … Continue reading
Timberline Board Member Earns $24,000 from School District they “Oversee”
Do you think it is appropriate for school board members to have occasional work from the district they are charged with overseeing? Tonight your school board will be talking about “Conflicts of Interest.” Thanks to Right to Know information I … Continue reading
Dartmouth Professor Advocates Preemptive Violence by Left-Wing Thugs
Dartmouth College professor, Mark Bray was on Meet the Press where he advocated for preemptive violence by groups like AntiFA. … Bray, who is a visiting scholar at the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth (GRID) has views so extreme that Southern Poverty Law Center president Richard … Continue reading
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Tagged Antifa, Dartmouth, Mark Bray, Meet the Press, Violence
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Civil War re-enactors and the complexity of the Confederate statue debate
Speaking this weekend in Hillsboro at the 19th century-themed Living History Event, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant refused to criticize the statue memorializing Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Yet the general also refused to tolerate racism during Reconstruction, when bigots tried … Continue reading
Posted in Around New England, Culture
Tagged Civil War, Confederacy, Reenactors, Statues
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NH CD-1 Candidate Eddie Edwards gives his perspective on Charlottesville
Republican Congressional candidate Eddie Edwards released a video this week defending his political party and calling into question the need for removing Confederate statues and monuments in the country. In the video titled, “A Conservative’s Response to the Charlottesville Tragedy,” … Continue reading
Christian ministry sues over listing on Southern Poverty Law’s ‘hate map’
A conservative Christian media group has slapped the Southern Poverty Law Center with a defamation lawsuit after being listed alongside neo-Nazis and white supremacists on its “hate map.” D. James Kennedy Ministries filed a lawsuit this week in federal court … Continue reading
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Tagged D. James Kennedy Ministries, Hate map, Lawsuit, SPLC
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Feds Put a Boot on the Neck of a NH Planning Commission and I Don’t Think They Like It
Planning Commissions are not known for their concern about property rights, but here we have the Coos Commissioners wondering about the injustice of losing zoning authority over projects within the county developed on Federal Lands. | More… | GraniteGrok
