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The four Hanover-Lyme state representative team has been fantastic this past two years, and is ready for the challenges of running the House when we win in November. But they have a primary with two Dartmouth students on September 13.

Our government has evolved over two and a half centuries. Three terms is the minimum to become effective on your own, due to the webs of existing laws and structures that affect a bill’s success, and establishing contacts with the right senior legislators, senators, legislative and agency staff. Without their help, making your ideas realistic and into effect is pretty impossible.

Sharon Nordgren was deputy minority leader when I arrived in 1997. For many years she has held the top or second Democratic position on the Finance Committee, allocating resources for the massive Health and Human Services Department and negotiating on the committees of conference that finalize the state’s budgets. She is an invaluable help to the team.

Jim Murphy and Mary Hakken-Phillips both joined my own committee, Ways & Means, which does revenues, fees, and dedicated funds.

Jim, a retired hospital administrator, focused on accessible and affordable health care on the HHS Legislative Oversight committee, Prescription Drug Affordability board, and county executive committee, while contributing heavily to Ways & Means on diverse bills.

Mary, then a full-time lawyer, couldn’t take on as much, but our Republicans listened to her seriously. A Young Democrat, she has now given up her job to dedicate herself to the legislature. She represented New Hampshire at the national Emerging Legislative Leaders Program. We expect great things from her next term.

Russ Muirhead joined the Election Law Committee, and was often tapped to speak on the floor. He was highly effective at defending low-income and medically challenged voters’ access and stopping bills that tried to make it harder to vote and to process ballots.

It is unrealistic to expect a freshman without prior experience with our government to gain the competence needed to make big changes in our state government in a first term. Check how long your candidates plan to stay and contribute.

When I was first deciding what college to attend, Dartmouth stood out because of its close connection to the forested hills of the Upper Valley.

From Pine Park to Mink Brook, Hanover has a variety of opportunities to embrace the New England wilderness that surrounds it. For students, having a connection to nature is vital, as spending time in nature has been found to help with mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.

New Hampshire’s environment also has substantial economic implications: in the fall of 2021, tourism brought in 4.3 million visitors and over $2 billion to the state.

However, the threat of climate change directly impacts all facets of life. From increasing odds of health problems from extreme heat to the decimation of the winter sports industry, rising temperatures would cause chaos. Fortunately, we are still at a point where New Hampshire can turn the tide on climate change and implement emission-reducing measures to mitigate the effects of climate change on our beloved state.

As a fellow college student, Miles Brown is keenly aware of the threat of climate change and is willing to put in the effort to save our environment for future generations. Through pushing policies like transitioning the state’s motor vehicle fleet to electric vehicles and providing subsidies for electric charging stations, Miles will work hard to find common ground policies that will reduce our state’s emissions.

By voting for Miles Brown on Sept. 13th, Hanover and Lyme will elect a state representative that will be a climate champion for all.

The lead story of Friday’s Valley News by staff writer John Lippman had the headline “Life under reconstruction.”

On July 31, Liz Sauchelli’s article was headlined “No Choco Taco, No Peace.”

Valley News headlines have become ever more grating and cutesy.

The above two are, at best, misleading and, at worst, demeaning and disrespectful. The first has nothing to do with the ill-fated Reconstruction period following the Civil War. The second resonates with the slogan “No Justice, No Peace,” for which Google brought up many explanations — I think Wikipedia’s first sentence says it best: ” ‘No justice, no peace’ is a political slogan which originated during protests against acts of ethnic violence against African Americans. Its precise meaning is contested. The slogan was used as early as 1986, following the killing of Michael Griffith by a mob of white youths.”

Of course, “No justice, no peace” was widely used in the summer of 2020 during the Black Lives Matter protests that resulted from the egregious murder of George Floyd by Officer Derek Chauvin.

You might as well get your laughs with the odious phrase “Black Flies Matter.”

The persecution of Donald Trump began in January 2017, before Mr. Trump entered office. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was interviewed by Rachel Maddow. The video is still up on YouTube. Mr. Schumer had this to say about the president-elect: “Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you. So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this.”

I think that this pretty well summarizes the cause of years of harassment since. The show trials, slander, character assassination, mockery, impeachments, and fake news never stop. They are desperate. To what lengths are they willing to go to stop him and the America First movement? The ‘intelligence community’ has been out of control in this country for a very long time.

I support everything that Inge Brown wrote in her letter to the Valley News published on Aug. 16.

Now all she has to do is convince the do-nothing UN to do something about Russia and Putin massacring Ukrainians and using their Nuclear ☢️ Power Plant as a weapon.

And let us not forget China and it’s demented president for life, Xi Jinping — and how the do-nothing UN is allowing him to stifle the free citizens and possibly invade Taiwan.

Perhaps Inge Brown can light a fire under the UN and it’s members to do the right thing and prevent another Hiroshima.

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