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The New Hampshire Gazette, Friday, November 19, 2021 — Page 1Vol. CCLXVI, No. 5Friday, November 19, 2021The New Hampshire GazetteWe Put theThe Nation’s Oldest Newspaper Editor: Steven Fowle Founded 1756 by Daniel Fowlein Free PressPO Box 756, Portsmouth, NH 03802 editors@nhgazette.com www.nhgazette.comFree!The Fortnightly RantThe Worst and the WeirdestExcept for a few Amazoniantribes, all of us Earthians haveby now been introduced to theMCU, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. A movie franchise makingthat much money becomes culturally unavoidable.Those celluloid shenanigans maybe safely ignored, of course. At least,so we presume. If only we cold saythat about the RCU—the Republican Criminal Universe.True, the nation’s plunge intocompetitive weirdness does seemto roughly coincide with the releaseof Iron Man in 2008. We suspect,though, that other events that yearmay have had a more disruptive effect.For example, the presidentialelection was won by a Black man.If Barack Obama had gone to theWhite House to work as a waiter,no one would even have noticed.Suddenly, though, everyone was expected to display—even if only forthe office—some measure of respectto a man who was not white.That perceived alteration in “thenatural order of things” caused asizable number of Americans tohave hurt feelings. A single election,though, no matter the outcome, doesnot an apocalypse make. The roots ofour discontent run deep.From 1619 until the mid-1960s,blatant displays of racism had beentolerated in most parts of the country, and mandatory in others. ThenLyndon Baines Johnson—that traitorous Texan—went and screwed allthat up.By signing laws responding to thedemands of an overwhelming socialmovement, LBJ disrupted the livesof a lot of people whose identity wasbased on their ability to look in themirror and confirm that—yup—they were still white.Another major project of Johnson’s also had a disruptive effect.Katherine Belew’s book Bring theWar Home: The White Power Movement And Paramilitary America,describes how the Vietnam Warhelped created the militia movement.Most veterans of that war agreethat it was a colossal something orother—either a colossal mistake, ora colossal failure. We shouldn’t havekilled any of those people, or wedidn’t kill enough.Those in the latter camp generally believed they had been betrayedby people in authority, and had notbeen “allowed to win.” A sub-set ofthis group also believed that havingpale skin was a sign of inherent superiority.Belew explained in a 2018 interview that while these men represented only “a tiny, tiny percentageof returning veterans,” they became“a large and instrumental numberof people within the white powermovement, and [played] really important roles in changing the courseof movement action.”Their presencein the white power movement had acatalytic effect.“The Vietnam War narrativeworks, first of all, to unite peoplewho had previously not been able tobe in a room together and to havea shared sense of mission. So, forinstance, Klansmen and neo-Nazisafter World War II had a very difficult time aligning because Klansmen tended to see neo-Nazis asenemies the people that they wereconfronting in World War II. Butafter Vietnam, they see commoncause around sort of their betrayalby the government and around thefailed project of the Vietnam War.”Belew’s book culminates withArmy veteran Timothy McVeigh’s1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. Not manyhard-core so-called “patriots” dareto rally ’round McVeigh, but he suredid give the Overton Window ahard yank to the right; witness, forexample, the support for the Bundystandoff.We could all use a little comicrelief by now, so let’s visit France.Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollinwas a wealthy, jowly lawyer, politician, and newspaper publisher. HisLa Reformé is said by an anonymousWikipedian to have had “a left-wingradical liberal republican editorialline,” which must have made for alively reading experience.Alex is reported to have said,“There go the people. I must followthem, for I am their leader.” The attribution is dubious, but that’s neither here nor there.What matters is that the principle being described may explain theGOP’s increasingly insane idiosyncratic behavior.New Hampshire’s gerrymandered Republican Executive Council demonstrates this principle nicely.A right wing mob effected a de factoveto over a 27-million contract—exacerbating the already-worseningpandemic. The Council had to resort to agenda-fiddling in order toreconsider the contract without thedin of obscene abuse.With their old guard dying off,and their support dwindling amongthose with moderate political views,the Party welcomed and encouragedall the highly motivated nut casesthey could lure into their sideshowtent. The resultant feedback loop between unscrupulous leaders trying tostay ahead of a mob of unhinged followers—coupled with appalling butapparently inevitable Democraticfecklessness—has created a situationin which our next President may befoisted upon us by the brain trust depicted immediately above.Having quoted a Frenchleft-winger saying something in-supportable, let’s quote an insupportable British right winger sayingsomething we can get behind:“Politics, as I never tire of saying,is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those witha grudge. The purpose of politics isto help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensatefor their personal inadequacies inthe pursuit of power.” – AuberonWaughIt’s supposed to be a free country,so people ought to be able to engagein competitive grotesquerie if theywant. We just wish they’d quit insisting on killing off the rest of us inthe process.There once was a time when, atthis stage in a drama, one could havehoped for a deus ex machina to appear and save the day. Sadly, the requisite lifting apparatus broke downthousands of years ago.Common sense has become anuncommon virtue; the worst and theweirdest now run the show.The Alleged News The Hole at the Heart of the PUC’s Heartless Order on Energy EfficiencyBy Donald M. Kreis, ConsumerAdvocate at the New HampshireOffice of the Consumer AdvocateAt the heart of last Friday’s astonishing, destructive, and radical orderfrom the Public Utilities Commission is a gaping hole.But before leaping into that hole,let’s start with wisdom from mediacritic and New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen. Because,let’s face it, even though I hung upmy reporter’s spurs 28 years agowhen I graduated from law school,this column is journalism, at leastkinda sorta.Rosen urges journalists to reframewhat they do, at least when coveringpolitics and public policy, so as to getout of he-said-she-said reportingmode. Instead, Rosen thinks journalists should start by asking peoplewhat they care about—and then fin-ish by pressing public officials aboutthose things.Confession: As the state’s Consumer Advocate, I don’t know whatmy constituency (residential utility customers) wants. But I think Iknow: They want their electricity,natural gas and water to be as inexpensive and reliable as possible.Here’s how Amory Lovins put it,in his now-famous 1976 article inForeign Affairs, titled “Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken:” “Peopledo not want electricity or oil, norsuch economic abstractions as ‘residential services,’ but rather comfortable rooms, light, vehicular motion,food, tables, and other real things.”In that article 45 years ago, Lovinssaw a nation at an energy crossroads:a “hard path,” consisting of continued reliance on legacy technologieslike fossil fuels and nuclear technology, or a “soft path” that would givepeople what they want more simplyand affordably (and without contributing to climate change which,yes, he did mention). And at the topof Lovins’ ‘soft path’ list was energyefficiency—simply squeezing morework out of every unit of energyconsumed.Since taking office in 2016, I haveenthusiastically supported NewHampshire’s ratepayer-funded,utility-provided energy efficiency programs (which fly under theNHSaves banner) not because Iwant to give Amory Lovins an “Itold you so” or even because energyefficiency is the ultimate low-carbon, low-impact resource. I likeenergy efficiency because it is thecheapest way to meet the next unitof demand.That’s not true out to infinity—but almost. Because NewHampshire lags so far behind ourneighboring states on energy efficiency, we could deploy more energy efficiency measures before wewould have to start worrying aboutwhether it would be cheaper simplyto make more electricity. A lot more.Last Friday, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) issued abombshell order that will, if allowedto stand, eviscerate the NHSavesprograms. You don’t have to love energy efficiency, or groove on energypolicy, to be outraged. You just haveto care—and I think you do care—about comfort, light, transportation,food, tables, and other real things.Which brings me to the gapinghole at the center of the PUC’s order. That hole consists of the notablelack of any reference to anythingthat happened from 2014 to 2020.Why does that period matter?In September of 2014, at the direction of the Legislature, the ad-ministration of Governor MaggieHassan issued New Hampshire’sfirst official Ten Year Energy Strategy. Front and center was a recommendation to “increase investmentsin cost effective energy efficiency,” which, the report noted is “thecheapest, cleanest, most plentifulenergy resource.”The 2014 Ten Year Energy Strategy called for the establishment ofan “over-arching statewide goal” forenergy efficiency. One mechanism,the report noted, is the creation of anEnergy Efficiency Resource Standard (EERS), which involves theadoption of specific energy-savingstargets rather than simply setting abudget and buying as much savingsas possibleThe following year, the PUCThe Alleged News to page two
Page 2 — The New Hampshire Gazette, Friday, November 19, 2021opened a docket and met the Energy Strategy’s challenge. On August2, 2016, the Commission approvedthe creation of the EERS, settingspecific savings targets for an initialtriennial period from 2018-2020.In particular, the PUC noted theEERS was “a significant step toward addressing the business community’s concerns about remainingcompetitive in today’s economy.”A broad coalition of stakeholders, including the state’s electric andnatural gas utilities as well as theOffice of the Consumer Advocate,supported the creation of the EERS.The coalition then came togetheragain to develop a specific plan forthe first triennium, which the PUCreadily approved.Finally, on December 30, 2019,the Commission adopted a new, coalition-built cost-benefit test for usein determining whether a particularenergy efficiency program is worthy of ratepayer money. Sweepingaway decades of muddle about “societal benefits” and the like, the new“Granite State Test” is based on thestraightforward principle that if allratepayers save money via their utility bills, the program is cost-effective.If you read only the PUC’s November 12th order about energyefficiency, you’d think none of thishad happened. There is simply nomention of it, even though the PUCreached back to decisions on energy efficiency from the early days ofelectric industry restructuring morethan 20 years ago, that were more toits taste.The fate of the Granite State Testfor cost-effectiveness is especiallygalling. The PUC dismisses it nowas “overly dependent upon subjectivefactors such that any desired outcome could potentially be obtainedfrom its application.”The two commissioners whoruled last Friday adopted that statement even though one of themsigned the December 2019 orderapproving the Granite State Test,proclaiming that it will “improveenergy efficiency program screeningBack in July our Wandering Photographer was lurking in the vicinity ofSummer and Middle streets when he came upon the joyous conglomerationdepicted above. “Aha,” he said. “A Fenwick, I suspect.” A little snoopingsoon revealed that the item had just been acquired by a local resident at theBrimfield, Mass. Antique Flea Market. Like a bottle upon the ocean, anemail was sent off into the aether. That was about four months ago. A weekago—Bingo! A reply from much-beloved Portsmouth-born sculptor MarkFenwick, from his studio Knuckleburg, in the hills above Brattleboro, Vermont: “Oh yeah, there it is! That is it! Wow.,” going on to mention that ithad last been seen at Brimfield.by placing a greater emphasis on theutility system impacts,” i.e., ratepayer impacts (since it’s the customerswho pay for the utility system).That 2019 order also praised theutilities and other stakeholders,noting that they had “consistentlyworked in a collaborative mannerand serve as an example of howconstructive stakeholder processescan aid the Commission in its decision-making duties and allow parties to reach a result in line with theirexpectations.”So much for that! The proposed2021-2023 triennial energy efficiency plan, swatted away by the Commission, was hammered out by thesame broad coalition of stakeholdersthat had been working successfullytogether since 2016. All of that coalition’s good and hard work has nowbeen wiped out.Look. The Public Utilities Commission is not a court. In the regulatory realm, there is essentially nostare decisis—the idea that the tribunal is bound by its precedents. Justbecause your predecessors—or evenyou—liked the work of the stakeholder coalition then does not necessarily mean you have to like it now.But there are limits. The PUC isbound by the case law of the NewHampshire Supreme Court, whichknows how to constrain rogueadministrative agencies. In NewHampshire, an agency like the PUCcan’t make arbitrary decisions andit can’t make stuff up. It has to baseits rulings on the evidence before it,even in cases where all the parties areasking for “yes” and the Commissionwants to say “no.”Even if you don’t care what standard of review will apply whenthe PUC’s order reaches the NewHampshire Supreme Court, youprobably like having a comfortablehome with light and heat that youcan afford. And you would like to beable to do that not just during theupcoming winter but for somethingcloser to forever.It’s the forever part the PUC hasjust tried to decimate. But it doesn’tnecessarily get the last word.Donald M. Kreis and his staff of fourrepresent the interests of residentialutility customers before the NH PublicUtilities Commission and elsewhere.– –The Grand Experiment Has BegunTwo Gazette volunteers have successfully completed the first cycle inwhat could be a newspaper distribution revolution. This happy occasioncalls for a recapitulation.Not long ago a reader in Exeterresponded to a call we publishedin the paper seeking volunteers tohelp with our distribution. Withthat volunteer standing ready, wethen placed a “house ad” in the paper. That ad sought help from anyone who regularly travels the routebetween Portsmouth and Exeter. Inshort order—exactly a fortnight after the ad was published, in fact—wehad our first volunteer courier.On November 5th, the first bundle went out. Those papers are nowin the hands of readers. That cyclewill repeat itself again today.TheNew HampshireGazetteis the most economicaladvertising medium on theSeacoast. This space isavailable for just twentydollars. To learn more,call (603) 433-9898, or e-maileditors@nhgazette.com.Sometimes Old is GoodThe arts are vital to our vibrant Seacoast community.Please consider supporting your many local arts andculture organizations in this time of crisis.Gathering together to experience the arts is the heartand soul of what we do here at The Music Hall.We are ever grateful for the unwavering support of ourcommunity, and look forward to seeing you when ourdoors reopen. /MUSICHALL @MUSICHALL /MUSICHALLNH603.436.2400 THEMUSICHALL.ORGB2W BOX OFFICE AT THE HISTORIC THEATER 28 CHESTNUT ST PORTSMOUTH NHThe Fechheimer Building, one of the finest examples of a cast-iron facade in Portland, Oregon, was built in 1885. Listed inthe National Register of Historic Places,it was restored in 1981 by Russell FellowsProperties, the principals of which enjoy asubscription to this newspaper.
The New Hampshire Gazette, Friday, November 19, 2021 — Page 3In the abstract, an experimentwhich began with nothing but Xthousand readers and the abilityto put before them certain interpretable, two-dimensionalpatterns of ink on paper,has resulted in the physical transportation of afive-pound bundle ofnewsprint a distanceof fifteen miles at acost of 0.00. Zeeero.Nada. Diddly-squat.After eliminatingdistribution costs, ourprimary remaining expense for papers distributedlocally is printing. That bundleof 100 papers can easily reach 250readers. Our cost per reader, then,is six cents. As we increase our distribution we can drive that figuredown to four cents. Eventually itcould approach three cents.What we have before us is anability to communicate with thousands of people on a regular basis ata cost that approaches nothing—anewspaper that is truly free editorially, and damn near freeas to operating expenses.Benjamin Day (left),legendary publisher ofthe New York Sun andfather of the revolutionary penny press,would be slapping thepalm of his hand onhis desk and excitedlyyelling something archaic at the top of his lungs.We have been trying tojump start this devious scheme forabout a decade. Now, we finally seeit running, thanks to these two volunteers. In case you can’t tell, we areexcited.We’ll be looking to replicate thisarrangement in other towns soon—after we catch our breath.A Peek in the Rear ViewIf you go to Google Maps and look at the north side of Hill Street, you’ll seea nice two-story wooden dwelling with sunny front porches on both floors,and one very nice, fairly old colonial. Here in the real world, if you look atthe south side of Hill Street, you’ll see the backs of three two-story woodenbuildings. Their fronts, shown here, face Hanover Street. All are built tothe same utilitarian pattern: four apartments in the front, four more inthe back. Altogether the three buildings comprise 24 apartments, housingwho knows how many people. Their rent is probably too high, but so iseverybody else’s. Admire these humble dwellings while you can—they’rean endangered species: the owner wants to knock them down. Hard tobelieve? Look to the north side of Hill Street. That nice old colonial andthe two-decker with the sunny front porches? Long gone, knocked downseveral years ago. Just like these, they were in the way of someone’s money.Having invoked the name of thegreat Benjamin Day, we ought toprovide a sample from his paper. Aquick rummage turns up a copy ofthe Sun’s weekly edition, dated Saturday, June 11, 1836.In an early journalistic form ofrecycling, the choicest bits from thedaily were left in standing type. Thepaper could then be quickly assembled and printed “for the country,”i.e., the area surrounding the city inwhich the daily circulated.It was an early journalistic form ofrecycling—or a way to wring the lastnickel out of the typesetter’s labor.Either way, as a staunch supporterof this paper once remarked, “Betterold news than new lies.”Polish Turnspits: Bears are verycommon in Poland; the peasantscatch them when quite yound andteach them to perform all sorts ofdomestic labors. These animals posess great intelligence and dexterity,particularly with their fore paws.Many innkeepers have bears, whoadroitly turn the spits for roastingmeat. It is an extrordinary sight tosee a stranger who enters a Polishkitchen, to see a bear seated gravelyon his hind legs, and turning withhis fore paws, an immense spit, bymeans of a handle artistically constructed.– Le Cameloen.But we get ahead of ourselves.In this edition of the Sun, trainedPolish bears were dessert. The maincourse was murder.Helen Jewett’s murder, to be specific. Just 22, Helen, born DorcasDoyen in Temple, Maine, was killedby three blows from a hatchet in theNew York brothel where she workedas a prostitute.The trial of Richard P. Robinson,19, for her murder, was a sensation.We turn now to that august authority, The Wikipedia, for an illuminating paragraph about press coverageof the trial.“Jewett’s murder excited the pressand the public. The coverage of themurder and trial was highly polar-ized, with reporters either sympathizing with Jewett and vilifyingRobinson or attacking Jewett as aseductress who deserved her fate.The New York Herald, edited byJames Gordon Bennett, Sr., provided the most complete (if not unbiased) coverage of the sensationalmurder. Almost from the beginningand throughout the trial, Bennettinsisted that Robinson was the innocent victim of a vicious conspiracylaunched by the police and Jewett’smadam. He also emphasized thesensational nature of the story andworked to exploit the sexual, violentdetails of Jewett’s death. The NewYork Sun, in contrast, whose readerstended to come from the workingclass, argued that Robinson wasguilty and that he was able to usemoney and the influence of wealthyrelatives and his employer to buy anacquittal. This theory continued togain traction for many years later.”What a relief to know that classno longer plays a role in how thenews is presented.Murph’s Fortnightly Quote“We need to stop just pulling peopleout of the river. We need to go upstreamand f ind out why they’re falling in.”– Bishop Desmond Tutu (1931- )“[W]e have palaeolithic emotions; medieval institutions;and god-like technology.”john@wordpraxis.com– E. O. WilsonNorth River Woodworks2. 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Page 4 — The New Hampshire Gazette, Friday, November 19, 2021To the Editor:Commuter rail and high-densityhousing pose imminent threats to theNew Hampshire Advantage of lowtaxes, low unemployment, low crime,high income, solid property values, andclean air.Commuter rail is being pushed byour federal delegation with Biden’sinfrastructure bill. Sununu has beenan enabler by not doing much to stopthose pushing it from within the state(SB 241).[The] proposed system will costNew Hampshire taxpayers 11M for annual operation and management. N.H. DOT suggests new taxesincluding 5 vehicle registration fee,increasing property taxes 15.7 million statewide, diversion of five percent state lottery revenue away fromschools, hiking gas taxes on those thatcan least afford it.According to N.H. DOT final report on Nashua-Manchester commuter rail project, “[m]ost state transitfunding comes from General Fundappropriations or through traditionaltaxes and fees, such as motor fuel taxes,sales taxes, and vehicle fees.”This system [MBTA], most bankrupt in the country, derailed or crashed43 times in 5 years![Note– Eighty-two words deleted, aredundant rehash of an old, bad argument. For the tedious details see Vol. 265,No. 23, July 30, 2021; Vol. 265, No. 21,July 2, 2021; Vol. 265, No. 14, March 26,2021, ad nauseam. – The Ed.]Jane AitkenBedford, N.H.Jane:Pardon us for deleting most of yourtired diatribe against a policy changewhich may help to slightly reduce thescourge of high rents. As our note states,we’ve heard it all before.What’s new and mildly interesting isyour new anti-rail screed. “What,” weasked ourselves at an editorial meeting,“has got Jane so worked up about an effortto reduce fossil fuel consumption, trafficcongestion, &c.?”Scratching around in the usual mannerwe found to our utter lack of surprise anonline petition being foisted on a gulliblepublic by that infamous astroturf outfitfounded by the Koch Brothers, Americansfor Prosperity. The third paragraph ofyour letter matches a part of that petitionword for word.Had we not been so diligent, we mighthave published your letter without redaction. In doing so we would have servedas a conduit of lies from the heart of theoligarchy to our readers. We thank theFlying Spaghetti Monster, our Diety ofthe Fortnight, that we are almost paranoid enough.Let us be perfectly clear: it is our position that anything coming from AFP is alie. Anything—even the truth! Nothingcoming from that organization can betrue—not the time of day, not the weather—nothing. As a source it is irretrievably tainted.AFP’s most brazen lie is its true identity. Though it masquerades as a citizensgroup, it is funded by our ruling oligarcy,and works against the interests of ordinary citizens. Billionaires for Skulduggery—BS, for short—would be far moreaccurate.There is one thing about AFP of whichwe may be sure. Its sole motive is to servethe interests of capital, and those who atthe moment hold it.Our own motive, of course, has notchanged in the three decades since wesnatched this unique entity—the Nation’s Oldest Newspaper —from theenfeebled grasp of the world’s ninth-richest man, Sir Kenneth of Fleet: level theplaying field by spreading that ill-gottenwealth around in a more equitable manner.Have a nice day.The Editor– –Tyrannical Intrusive GovernmentDear Editor:I hope the people who call it government intrusion to require maskingor vaccinations against Covid-19 willalso throw off their hard hats on thosejobs where OSHA has required them.They should not wear reflective vestswhile alongside traffic, but wear whatever they choose. They should be rid ofthe burden of protective goggles overtheir eyes, especially if OSHA has said,“You must ”. As for harnesses re-quired when working at heights—thatis clearly a government intrusion. Respirators that will help protect workers’lungs? Nah.It’s back, it seems, to rugged individualism, and dying the way onerandomly shall, without the benefit ofgood, tested ideas for safety. So muchfreedom in the good old days!Of course, some insurers may thenjustifiably cross off some customers’coverage, and surviving families mayobject to being moneyless when theirearner is gone.Lynn Rudmin ChongSanbornton, N.H.Lynn:As you say, some survivors of those lostto workplace injuries will likely regret theloss of insurance benefits.We would not be too surprised to learnthough, in these peculiar times, that somemight find their cognitive dissonance capable of blaming themselves of their deceased breadwinner.The Editor– –You Want Me to What?To the Editor:According to my dictionary, obedience is defined as “compliance with anorder, request, or law—or submissionto another’s authority.”While obeying an order might leadsomeone to commit an unpalatabledeed, acting in a subservient role canbe freeing because it transfers responsibility for the act to a higher authority.“Hey, don’t blame me! I was just following orders.”In fact, one of the more seductivefringe benefits of Trumpism is thegolden opportunity it provides to abdicate personal responsibility for committing unruly acts.For example, Kyle Rittenhouse donshis vigilante hat, guns down threedemonstrators, then claims to be thevictim. Or, insurrectionists breach theU.S. Capitol, get caught red handed onvideo destroying property and assaulting police, then proclaim innocencebecause they believe Donald Trump“sent them there.”You get the idea.However, for a more comprehensiveprimer on the pitfalls of blind obedience, I recommend looking up some ofthe classic psychological studies conducted in the 50s and 60s followingWorld War II. Then draw parallels towhat’s happening now.It turns out, once freed from theconstraints of our own conscience, itbecomes very difficult to reverse direction. Witness anti-vaxers who swearthey don’t have Covid-19 with theirlast dying gasp. Or consider politicianswho continue to propagate Trump’sBig Whopper, claiming against all evidence that Joe Biden lost the election.Of course, not all orders are bad, andresearchers tell us our inclination toobey them is baked into our DNA. Infact, a degree of obedience is necessaryto prevent anarchy and hold the tribetogether.Case in point, most of us believestop signs improve our odds for survival, so we stop. It’s the “patriots” whobelieve stop signs infringe on theirGod-given right to travel freely weneed to worry about.And, worry we should, because onceit begins, there doesn’t appear to be asimple way to turn back the clock.Rick LittlefieldBarrington, N.H.Rick:It’s a tragic thing to watch. It oftentakes the better part of a couple of decadesto turn a willful, freshly-minted Homosapiens into a tolerable person. The corrosive hyper-individualistic philosophythat’s been pushed on the nation since themid-70s, though, has now borne fruit.All those repressed inner two-year-oldshave come out to play—only now theyhave AR-15s.The Editor– –War is TheftYou Suffered Through Them Now Enjoy Them!Sr. Database Administratora compendium of drawings by Mike Datermost of which first appeared inThe New Hampshire GazetteNow Available at RiverRun Bookstoreand at MikeDater.comShirkers, Abdicators, and ObstructionistsDear Editor:On November 12, 2021, 1,007 newcases of Covid-19 were reported bythe New Hampshire Departmentof Health and Human Services, thelargest number of cases in a single daysince January.Most of the cases, 657, were inchildren less than 18 years of age,and there were 255 hospitalized andfive new deaths. The most recent seven-day average number of cases was725, a 20 percent increase over the previous week. There are curren
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