It may be hard for some of us to believe, but Thursday is Thanksgiving. Luckily, the airwaves have been filled with advanced notice of Black Friday sales and deals.
We must have overslept on the couch but it appears that Black Friday has pretty much replaced Thanksgiving as the true November holiday in America. Over the river and through the woods no longer leads to grandmother’s house but to the doorbuster specials at stores and online.
Still, there is much for Americans to be thankful on Thanksgiving this year.
We made it through national and state elections without armed conflict. How new administrations in Concord and Washington fare in the new year is anyone’s guess but we should all hope for the best.
Speaking of conflict, our men and women in the armed forces remain on watch around the world, often in harm’s way but not, at the moment, at war.
Americans, at least here in New Hampshire, continue to look out for and take care of one another. Recent stories in our pages have reminded us that good things are still going on (think of the Mark Stebbins Community Center about to go up on Manchester’s West Side or the town fire compacts that worked together to tamp down last week’s stubborn brush fires).
Soon enough, civic clubs and youth groups will be selling Christmas wreaths and trees (and don’t forget the Salvation Army and Union Leader Santa Fund).
We hope Thanksgiving is a good one for all Granite Staters.
We read somewhere on the web that Donald Trump isn’t so much filling a cabinet as he is a junk drawer.
Much social and media air time was spent last week on the matter of which restroom a certain new member of the U.S. Congress will be permitted to use. Liberals and their press pool pals seem not to have learned much from the recent presidential election.
State Sen. Sharon Carson of Londonderry will lead that important body in the new legislature. That is good news for the taxpayers in particular and Granite Staters in general.
What happened to all the buses? We expected fleets of them pouring over our border from Massachusetts on Election Day in order to keep Donald Trump from victory. Trump in fact didn’t carry New Hampshire, but it was close.
The president-elect has announced the formation of a new body to cut down on the number and size of existing government departments and government waste.
Whereas it has long been our custom to commemorate November 11, the anniversary of the ending of World War I, by paying tribute to the heroes of that tragic struggle and by rededicating ourselves to the cause of peace; and
We have a hunch that both state and local governments are going to face some financially tougher times in the next two years. The watchword ought to be to spend on “needs not wants” as a former governor used to say.
Manchester public school teachers and pupils didn’t have school last Tuesday. It was election day.
This Monday is Veterans Day, Nov. 11. If you see a veteran today (or any day, for that matter) thank him or her for their service. Some of them will shrug it off as no big deal but most of them, we think, will appreciate it.
The 2024 presidential contest puts Americans in a spot they have no wish to be in — a choice between a man many have rejected and a woman most of the country can’t remember voting for in any contest (Hint: you likely never have). We cannot endorse either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. That t…
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