Browsed by
Tag: New Hampshire

Endorsement of Joyce Craig for Governor, 2024

Endorsement of Joyce Craig for Governor, 2024

Comments 1 Comment

Despite my last post, Joyce Craig is now the best candidate for Governor of New Hampshire. Joyce Craig understands the priorities of New Hampshire-ites, including the ones around limiting access to healthcare, the housing crisis, cannabis, and public transit. Kelly Ayote, the Republican candidate, would retain the current law that restricts doctors from providing medically necessary treatment for pregnant women, believes in an imaginary crisis at the northern border with Canada, and wishes to plunge public services, including Medicare, Medicaid,…

Read More Read More

Endorsement of Cinde Warmington for Governor, 2024

Endorsement of Cinde Warmington for Governor, 2024

Comments 1 Comment

Edit September 11th, 2024: The Primary is over. See my endorsement of Joyce Craig. On Tuesday September 10th 2024, New Hampshire goes to the polls for the primary elections. In the governor race for the Republicans are two extremists who would harm individual freedoms for women, LGBTQ+ people, children in need of education (so, all of them), and other minorities not yet identified by them. Both support the former president who has admitted to abusing very young women, has been…

Read More Read More

Government design, and the US’s problem

Government design, and the US’s problem

Comments 0 Comment

I have a controversial opinion – the Federal government of the USA should have more power, and the local governments (state, city, other regions) should have less. This is my opinion as an American. As a European by birth, I think the same is true of the EU. My friends moved from England to Belgium when England was still part of the EU. They had to register with all the Belgian government’s myriad tax and other authorities. Social security was…

Read More Read More

A letter to Maggie Hassan

A letter to Maggie Hassan

Comments 0 Comment

Senator Maggie Hassan (D. NH) wrote to subscribers to her newsletter to celebrate an extremely regressive and ill-advised policy by the Democratic administration. Here’s her email and my response: Maggie Hassan’s email Families are reeling from the impact of Putin’s war and supply chain challenges, and Granite Staters are paying the price at the pump. It’s clear that we need to take additional action to bring down costs for families. To help bring down high oil and gas prices, I…

Read More Read More

Our roof after the snow
How not to die because of your roof

How not to die because of your roof

Comments 0 Comment

The title of this article may seem like an easy thing to achieve – don’t climb on it. But this is not about falling off your roof. Let me give you some background. I am from England. In England, the weather ranges from around 80°F (26°C) on occasional days in the summer, to around 32°F (0°C) on occasional days in the winter. Most of the year, the weather hovers around 50°F (10°C) to 60°F (15°C). The air is more humid…

Read More Read More

Proposed flag of New Hampshire
Proposed flag of the State of New Hampshire

Proposed flag of the State of New Hampshire

Comments 1 Comment

Yesterday, I posted a proposed flag of New Hampshire that meets some more of the good design principles of flag design. See that post for more information. Brian Cham made some comments about the design of my New Hampshire flag, which I think were quite right. My wife also suggested that it was not “flag-like”. Given a few hours of rumination, I have now modified that design slightly. I have added two more mountains, to make the “White Mountains”, plural,…

Read More Read More

Proposed flag of New Hampshire
Proposed flag of the State of New Hampshire

Proposed flag of the State of New Hampshire

Comments 3 Comments

The current New Hampshire state flag is not a good flag. This is my subjective opinion, but it is also backed up by guidelines and scores from across society. For example, the North American Vexalogical Society (NAVA) rated New Hampshire amongst the ten worst flags in North America (source). In order to assess the quality of flags, the NAVA check the flag’s design against five principles listed in Good Flag Bad Flag. In summary, they are: Keep it simple –…

Read More Read More

Gluten free flying pig
Apotheca, Goffstown

Apotheca, Goffstown

Comments 0 Comment

My wife and I were looking for a cafe in the Manchester, New Hampshire area which had enough room and comfort for a day spent working on various projects. We found Apotheca, and it’s a great find. We arrived before lunch and after trying a Gibraltar Coffee (very interesting, but perhaps a little grown-up for my tastebuds), I had a coconut latte, which was very good and not too sweet. The reason I am writing about this place, though, is…

Read More Read More