Archive for ‘Opinion’

  • Small World: The Rise and Rise of Women

    By Henry Precht BN Columnist A few weeks back, The New York Times published on Page 1 a photo of the five top statewide officials of New Hampshire. They were all female. (Maine recently could only muster three of five.) I suggest that high school girls clip that photo for their albums. Some day, not […]

  • My Irish Up: How I missed out on Homeland

    By Mike Corrigan BN Columnist “President-elect Romney is working closely with his transition team to put together his administration to ensure a smooth transfer of power on Jan. 20, 2013 and get to work for the American people.” — “President-elect” Romney’s website, mistakenly put up the morning after the election, and then quickly taken down […]

  • My Irish Up: Getting it together

    By Mike Corrigan BN Columnist I, a man whose VCR once blinked “12:00” for five consecutive years, am currently sitting in an office chair that promised to be ergonometric before I broke its spirit. Took the box home. Pulled everything out of the carton. Followed directions to the letter. Sure, I had two pieces left […]

  • Small World: Another law of foreign relations

    By Henry Precht BN Columnist Let’s call it “Sadat’s Law.” (I’ll explain the name later.) The law governs when the ruler of a nation, which is either very warm or very cold towards the United States, is loved or hated, respectively, by us, but the obverse is almost always true of his subject’s attitude toward […]

  • Earth Notes: Teaching students the 3 Rs in a throwaway world

    By Brian Roche Blue bins are ubiquitous in school. Emblazoned on the side, a familiar triangle of arrows is added for emphasis. Recycling is part of our daily lexicon in homes, offices and schools. Yet, how effective are efforts to teach, reinforce and reward and acknowledge competency in the other Rs for school-age students? What […]

  • My Irish Up: The end was near

    By Mike Corrigan BN Columnist When the Mayan calendar completed its 13th cycle, some people (FOX News) predicted that the world would end. This, even though the world had already effectively ended right on FOX six and a half weeks earlier, when Karl Rove went ballistic on set, protesting that people with net worths of […]

  • Uppermost house: Nine hours for a certain girl

    By S. Peter Lewis BN Columnist My daughter’s boyfriend drove over from Rochester, N.Y. last week. Amanda had met Tim in college and although I’d heard a lot about him, he and I had never had any face time — we Skyped once, but I wore my bathrobe so it didn’t really count. After a […]

  • Small World: A law governing foreign relations

    By Henry Precht BN Columnist Probably many readers in their personal lives have run into this law: that of unintended consequences (LUC).  Say you have a great plan to reach an ideal objective. Yet, something goes wrong and you end up with a result you didn’t anticipate. The classic example is the introduction of rabbits […]

  • LR Coalition: What is date rape?

    By Daryl-Ann Leonard LCSW Lakeside Counseling When people think of rape they often think of a stranger lurking in the shadows and violently attacking someone. But what happens when someone you know and trust rapes you? When forced sex occurs between two people who are in a dating relationship, it is known as date rape. […]

  • By Mike Corrigan BN Columnist Admit it, you never really liked the climate anyway. All that snow and rain and sun and wind and so on. It is way past time for something new! So, eee-hah!  — Climate Change, bring it on! And look, it turns out that climate is the “change” Barack Obama promised […]