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VOLUME 27, NO. 11
THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, march 15, 2018
Time For The Great Northeast Boat Show!
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Murder In The Month Of March Or Was It An Accident? by Robert Hanaford Smith, Sr. Contributing Writer
Rev. Enos Dudley was escorted onto the platform before a crowd estimated to number from twenty-five hundred to as many as five thousand people in Haverhill Corner, New Hampshire on May 23rd of the year 1849. Those watching Mr. Dudley were surprised to observe his calm demeanor as he faced them as a man seeming to have
no fear or nervousness on that Wednesday afternoon as the time neared the scheduled 1:30 event. The weather was described as “unpleasant” with the morning hours showing the threat of rain, a factor that some believed kept the crowd from swelling to even greater numbers. But nothing seemed to be able to disturb the Rev. Dudley, who, gave every appearance of being a man See smith on 16
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Spring is right around the corner and its time for that new boat. The Great Northeast Boat Show is back this weekend, Friday through Sunday, March 16th-18th at the NH Sportsplex in Bedford. With 25 dealers, 75 brands and 150 boats you are sure to find just the right boat for you. See our special pull-out section inside this issue.
Saturday, March 17th at Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia, the eclectic Martha’s Vineyard based Entrain will perform. Entrain has been praised for their ability to shift effortlessly between musical styles - from rock, blues, calypso and ska, to zydeco, jazz and funk - often within the same song. Since its inception, Entrain has jammed with the likes of singer/songwriter
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Gilford Rotary Evening in Paradise Encore April 7
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The Gilford Rotary Club will bring the Caribbean to the Lakes Region with a special “Cabin Fever Reliever” event at Contigiani’s Event Center on Saturday April 7th, from 5:30-10pm “An Evening in Paradise” is presented by All Metals Industries, Lake Region Dental Care, and Gilford Home Center and will feature a Caribbean style Buffet and desserts, special island drinks, a silent auction, 50/50 raffle and dancing to the hot tunes of the “Hot Tamales Band.” Admission for this adults only event is $50 and $90 for couples and includes a tasty Caribbean style buffet, deserts, door prizes, a photo booth, and dancing with the Hot Tamales Band So, bring your beachwear and your friends. Margaritas will be the specialty drink of the evening. The cash bar will also offer beer and wine. Tickets can be purchased online at www.gilfordrotaryevents.weebly.com. Tickets are also available through Club members and at Greenlaw’s Music Downtown Laconia.
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Laconia Parks & Recreation would like to remind everyone of the amenities that are available in their backyards. There are 2 ice skating rinks in Laconia that are absolutely free of charge, but are subject to the weather and conditions. One is located at Memorial Park in the parking lot of the baseball field and the other is on the lake in the cove at Opechee Park. The rink that was set up on the beach itself is no longer usable. Please do not use it. When on the lake rink, please use extreme caution. Lights are on at both facilities until 10pm. The sledding hill is also open to the public at the end of South Street, off of Academy Street. Lights are on till 10pm. Please do not park inside the park. Park outside the gate on the right hand side of the road. Have fun and be sure to follow the posted rules. 524-5046
Through Saturday April 21st Lakes Region Art Association Art Show & Sale
Epsom Public Library, State Route 4, Epsom. This show features the work of numerous Lakes Region artists and photographers who are also members of the association. Various different art mediums will be on display in the show including, but not limited to, oils, acrylics, watercolors, photography and art craft items. 956-5551 Thursday 15th
Peter Wolf The Flying Monkey, South Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.
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Eric Grant Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7pm. www.patrickspub.com or 293-0841
Lakes Region VNA Presents a Program on Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Meredith Public Library, Main Street, Meredith. 6:30pm. Join this education forum to learn more about Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementia diseases. How is it diagnosed? Are there effective treatments? Is there a cure in sight? How do I support my loved one with Alzheimer’s disease? All of these questions and more will be answered.
BCSA St. Patrick’s Dinner & Program on Covered Bridges
Belknap County Sportsmen Club, Lily Pond Road, Gilford. 6pm. Join for a corned beef dinner with all the fixings! During the event Arnold Graton will give a talk on Covered Bridges. Admission is open to all club members and the community at large. Cost is $15pp, water and soda provided. BYOB. Friday 16th
Durham County Poets Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043
Peter & Jeremy The Flying Monkey, South Main Street,
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Dueling Pianos: Jon Lorentz vs Matt Langley Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 8:30pm. www.patrickspub. com or 293-0841
Fri. 16th – Sun. 18th “Keep NH Green” – Lakes Region Conservation Trust Benefit
Schuster’s Tavern, 580Cherry Valley Road, Gilford. Delicious Irish food, Irish Step dancers, chocolates, Irish whiskey, Irish Beer and locally grown greens! At 7pm on March 17th , Tyler Little will be leading the dance troupe for a classic Irish number on the dance floor! Dinners are offered at $14 to $16 per person or $25/couple. Book dinner for 2 and a hotel room for only $100! 293-2021 Saturday 17th
Entrain Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. BYOB venue. www.pitmansfreightroom.com or 527-0043
Phil Vassar The Flying Monkey, South Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.
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Carl Yard & Nick Lavallee – Live Comedy Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. 8pm. Visit www. RochesterOperaHouse.com or call 335-1992 for tickets.
Classic Silent Film Comedy – “Conductor 1492” The Blazing Star Grange, Danbury Grange Hall, 15 North Road, Danbury. Conductor 1492, a silent comedy starring Johnny Hines will be shown with live music. All are welcome to
share a laugh. Suggested donation of $5pp. For more info and time, contact 252-4440 or www.blazingstargrange.
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Maple Sugar Madness Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm or 2pm. Join to experience an oldfashioned New England tradition, making maple syrup! From tapping a tree to tasting delicious maple syrup, you will participate in every step of the syrup making process. Moderate hike to and from the sugarhouse. All ages welcomed. Pre-registration is $10pp, $8 members, or $12 at the door. www.prescottfarm.org or 366-5695
St. Patrick’s Day Family Dance Party
Rochester Performance & Arts Center, 32 North Main Street, Rochester. 1pm4pm. Celebrate the luck of the Irish with this special event the entire family can enjoy together. Events include a dance party, arts & crafts, games, prizes, treats and entertainment. Free for children under 12, $5/adult. 9481099
Justin Jaymes Patrick’s Pub & Eatery, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. 7:30pm – 10:30pm. www.patrickspub.com or 293-0841
Masters of Soul Rochester Opera House, 31 Wakefield Street, Rochester. www. RochesterOperaHouse.com or 3351992
St. Patrick’s Day Corned Beef Dinner The First Church Congregational, Main Street, Farmington. Doors open at 4:30pm, serving until 6:30pm. $10/ adult, $5/children under 10. www.
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St. Patrick’s Day High Stakes Bingo At Funspot The Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society will be hosting a special St. Patrick’s Day High Stakes Bingo Game Saturday, March 17th at the Funspot Bingo Hall. There will be $10,000 in prizes as well as big prize money on Lucky 7 pull-tab tickets. (Bingo prizes based on attendance.) $2,000 is guaranteed on the Carryover Coverall and every regular game pays $320. There will be an early game at 4:30 and the evening game begins at 6:45. Come early for the best seats. Doors open at 2pm. Handheld bingo computers are available while they last for a rental fee of $6. There is a separate smoking section and food service is available. All proceeds from the game go to benefit the Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society. Funspot is located at 579 Endicott St. N., Weirs Beach, NH.
Barbershop Style Music with the Concord Coachmen Chorus LACONIA The Concord Coachmen Chorus has been delighting the greater Concord, NH area since 1955 with its presentation of timeless tunes sung Barbershop style. Join the fun Wednesday, March 21 at 6:30pm in Taylor Community’s Woodside Building for the chorus’ concert, which is free and open to the public. Taylor Community is a not-for-profit Continuing Care Retirement Community whose mission is to provide the highest quality of retirement living options to support the independence, health and dignity of community residents. Visit www.taylorcommunity.org, or call 366-1400 for more information.
Brewing In New Hampshire Historian Glenn Knoblock of Wolfeboro presents this program from his book “Brewing in New Hampshire” on Tuesday, March 20th at 7pm at Gordon-Nash Library in New Hampton. His presentation will show how beer went from home to tavern to brewery brewed, and will include a collection of brewer anecdotes, as well as unusual and rare photos and advertisements documenting the changes in the industry and showing the state’s earliest brewers. A number of lesserknown brewers and breweries that operated in New Hampshire will be discussed, including the only brewery owned and operated by a woman prior to the modern era. Back in the day, beer was the beverage of choice. Discover how kids drank it, women brewed it and the Granite State embraced it. This program in presented by the New Hampton Historical Society and is sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. All programs are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served and fundraising items will be available for sale.
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where we are currently, the state of the industry and what we can expect in the near future of beer in New Hampshire. Since the beginning of this decade, we have gone from 10 or so breweries to our current status of over 75 breweries in a scant 17 years. Budweiser has always touted that they are the ‘King of Beers’ but in the past two or three years have realized that they have lost 4-6% of the market share due to the rise of craft breweries emerging around the nation. If you look at the fact that every 1.6 beers that are sold are In-Bev (Anheuser-Busch’s owned) products and that this number is dwindling, you can see why they are alarmed. As corporate giants, ‘bean-counters’ (accountants) are screaming that they need to do something about it. In an effort to regain market kingship, they are madly purchasing all kinds of beer-related companies that will add to their bottom line. This has made them furiously purchase craft brewers that have ‘sold out’ to macro beer. For one reason or another, these companies have succumb to the pressure of a buy-out due
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Towns Act To Protect Community Rights To The Editor: There is a community rights movement in New Hampshire and across the Nation for cities and towns to act to protect their health, safety, and welfare through local ordinances. This is the right thing for every town to do. Nottingham passed a Rights Based Ordinance (RBO) in 2008 to ban commercial water extraction when USA Springs wanted to pump us dry – we stopped them and we protected our water supplies. Barnstead and Barrington did the same thing, and Atkinson also passed a RBO to protect their water supplies. On March 17, Nottingham residents at Town Meeting will vote on a ban against toxic waste dumping (Article 19). An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure! Sugar Hill, Easton, and Plymouth have passed RBO’s prohibiting high voltage transmission lines and that helped to oppose the Northern Pass project. Grafton, Danbury, Hebron, and Alexandria passed RBO’s to stop commercial wind turbines from sprouting all over their towns. Sustainable renewable energy must be of, by, and for the people. Durham is now organizing to stop Great Bay from
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dredging by Eversource that will cause severe environmental damage, and Newmarket is in the midst of an RBO effort to prevent chemical trespass in the Great Bay and the surrounding watershed. Act now before they dig it up and poison the water, afterwards will be too late. Towns are becoming mobilized to stop Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) pipelines and storage facilities. The Granite Bridge pipeline will endanger every community on its route with highly explosive LNG, especially the Epping area where they want to build a storage tank 140 feet tall. One spark, one human error, one malfunction, and BOOM the whole region will be affected by that disaster, including Exeter! Then it will be too late to do anything, as it is for communities being destroyed by gas fracking. The Legislature is now considering CACR 19 for an Amendment to the NH Constitution’s Bill of Rights that will make it clear that towns and cities have the right to selfprotection and control of their destiny. Please get involved in your town and also call your Representatives to vote against the efforts to kill this crucial piece of Legislation. We the People must lead to get our leaders to follow.
This newspaper was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert as Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette and continued until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. The new Weirs Times was re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its predecessor as well as his devotion to the interests of Lake Winnipesaukee and the Cocheco Valley area with the new Cocheco Times. Our newspaper’s masthead and the map of Lake Winnipesaukee in the center spread are elements in today’s paper which are taken from Calvert’s historic publication.
Peter A. White, Treasurer, NH Community Rights Network Nottingham NH
Weak On Enforcing Laws To the Editor: Democrat policies aren’t usually as visibly horrifying as the Parkland massacre that left 17 dead. Nevertheless, millions of people are victimized because Democrats are weak on enforcing laws against criminals who prey on law-abiding Americans. Proper law enforcement in Parkland would have resulted in Cruz being arrested and punished or treated; in either case he wouldn’t have been able to legally buy a gun. But Parkland implemented President Obama’s Promise Program to reduce minority student arrests. It doesn’t take a genius to know that student criminals would commit more and more severe crimes when they learned that they wouldn’t be arrested. Eventually student criminals leave school without learning that crime doesn’t pay. And without criminal records these student criminals, like Nikolas Cruz, can legally buy guns to further victimize people. Cruz was a very sick teenager, and his posts, comments, and actions cried out for attention which wasn’t provided; apparently school administrators and law enforcement were more interested in faking student crime statistics to enhance their personal reputations and qualify for an additional See mail boat on 27
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If you didn’t know it already - perhaps you have been late for everything all week and can’t figure out why – Daylight Savings Time started this past week. You can thank me later. Daylight Savings Time is a confusing time of year for some. It is that interruption into our rhythm that happens twice a year when it begins and ends. I did some research on the Internet from a reliable source I often turn to and came up with some interesting history on this phenomenon. Daylight Saving Times in the United States started one hundred years ago in 1918 by Benjamin Franklin after he discovered electricity and then saw his first utility bill. “Yikes,” said old Ben, “It would be nice to get an extra hour of daylight to keep the lights off. Money doesn’t grow on trees.” Depending on the time of the year, we either set our clocks ahead an hour or back an hour. Many of us forget which one we do on what month, so the government spent two billion dollars to have someone come up with a little ditty “Spring Ahead and Fall Back” that would help us all remember which is which. According to my Internet source, the Russians, who are always ready to try and disrupt everything that is going on in this country,
had some of their agents walk around repeating the phrase backwards “Spring Back and Fall Ahead” thus confusing many people. Our government has been investigating these claims for thirty-two years as of yesterday. One of the biggest problems this caused, according to my trusted Internet source, was that schoolaged children were either getting to class too early or too late, depending on the time of year. It was getting to be a real problem. So, in 1979, President Jimmy Carter established the Department of Education whose sole purpose, at the time, was to have its employees print off millions of copies of letters to be distributed to schools nationwide and given to students to be brought home to their parents. Each letter told of the upcoming time change and whether or not it was appropriate to Spring Ahead or Fall Back. Many of the letters were never read as they somehow were lost, got covered with peanut butter and jelly and thrown away, or used to make paper planes by the students. It was soon realized that the cost of producing the letters was prohibitive since they didn’t work and the plan was scraped. Today, the over 4,000 employees of the Department of Education work year-round sending emails to parents reminding them when to turn their clocks forward or backwards. (Thank goodness for technology.) Today, a few states don’t turn their clocks back or forth, they just leave them be. It is always the same time there when it might be a different time somewhere else. It is sort of like a boring Twilight Zone episode. A lot of people like the idea of leaving the clocks alone. One of the reasons
for this, according to the Internet, is that more and more people are getting used to their electronic devices automatically changing the time so they can keep up, while at the same time, they are too busy staring at said devices to manually change the time on their microwaves and car clocks which will most likely have the wrong time for months. Most surveyed said they would prefer not to have to stop staring at their devices to take the time to fix those clocks, so it would just be better to keep the time the same year-round. I for one am not a big fan of gaining an extra hour at night this early in the year. Being able to drive home after work and think of all the things that might need to be done outside from November to March never bothered me much since I knew it would always be too dark to do anything once I got there. Now with daylight lingering till almost seven, I can’t find enough things to do at work to keep me there just a little longer, forcing the inevitable. Here in New Hampshire, the legislature has discussed on occasion whether or not Daylight Savings Time should come or go for good. The discussion is usually forgotten when more important issues come up like what the state condiment should be or which day we should choose to celebrate Tabletop Games. (I’m only making one of those up.) So, will Daylight Savings Time be around for a while or will it go the way of the public pay phone? Only time will tell. Brendan is the author of “The Flatlander Chronicles” and “The Best of A F.O.O.L. In New Hampshire” which are available at his website www. BrendanTSmith.com
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Give VA Secretary David Shulkin the Boot Will the VA scandal never end? While the Department of Veterans Affairs secretary lives high on the hog and his lying chief by Michelle Malkin of staff resigns Syndicated Columnist in disgrace while escaping any punishment, legions of vets every day in this country are denied the medical care they earned. President Trump was supposed to drain the swamp. But at the historically fraud-ridden and profligate VA, the alligators continue feasting on the public dime. Trump’s VA secretary, David Shulkin, is an Obama holdover. His main agenda is to block any real reforms for veterans, which includes expanding their ability to obtain care from private doctors and hospitals. His daughter, Jennifer, is a Harvard law student and loudmouth Huffington Post contributor who used her Twitter account recently to defend her dad against “right-winged, pro-privatization Trump appointees.” Two weeks ago, Shulkin launched a purge of what he calls “subversive” employees that he accuses of trying to undermine him. It’s the same tactic Obama VA officials used to silence whistleblowers who exposed secret waiting lists to nowhere that cost untold thousands of patients across at least seven states their lives. This latest witch hunt for dissenters comes in the wake of a scathing inspector general’s report last month on Shulkin’s 10-day junket to Europe last summer. The VA secretary spent a grand total of three and a half days on
supposed business meetings in Copenhagen and London. For the rest of the time, Shulkin directed a VA underling to act as his personal travel agent -- on your dime -- to plan sightseeing for him and his wife, including: --Touring Amalienborg Palace for the changing of the guard and visiting Christiansborg Palace, Rosenborg Castle and Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark. --Boating and dining in Copenhagen and dining in Malmo, Sweden. --Trekking to the Churchill War Rooms, Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace, Westminster Abbey, Thames River, St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Shakespeare’s Globe, the London Eye and Windsor Castle. The inspector general discovered that Shulkin also improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets from a British socialite. To evade ethics guidelines, Shulkin claimed the socialite was his wife’s “friend,” but the socialite couldn’t even remember Shulkin’s wife’s name when questioned by investigators. Nice family vacay if you can get it -- and you can get it subsidized, if your underlings lie. Shulkin’s chief of staff, Vivieca Wright Simpson, admitted doctoring an email in order to get Shulkin’s wife’s airfare paid for by the public. Wright Simpson misled an ethics officer into believing that Shulkin was receiving an award at a dinner and that his wife therefore qualified as an “invitational traveler.” It was a big fat fabrication. Shulkin received no award. His wife was not eligible for the travel reimbursements for her whopping $4,000 plane tickets. Nevertheless, Wright Simpson -- a career bureaucrat who started at the VA in 1998 and ascended
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Why John Kelly Is Irreplaceable If John Kelly didn’t exist, President Donald Trump would have to invent him, and he wouldn’t be able to. The chief of by Rich Lowry staff had a rocky Contributing Writer couple of weeks with the imbroglio over ousted White House staff secretary Rob Porter, but he is as close as it gets to an indispensable man in the Trump White House. Where else is the president going to find someone whom he likes and respects (at least on most days), who can intimidate the White House staff into a semblance of order, who has experience in wielding responsibility in even more difficult circumstances, and who shares Trump’s instincts? The last of these is the reason
why, more than any other, there has been a major downdraft in Kelly’s press coverage. He went from “Trump’s Last Best Hope,” per Time magazine last August, to a bitter disappointment. A writer at FiveThirtyEight wrote a piece the other day explaining “How the Media Bungled the John Kelly Story,” referring not to any specific story about Kelly, but to the overall sense that he’d be a restraining influence on the president. Kelly’s boosters in the media had a fantasy that he would show up at the White House and take Trump aside at some point and explain, “It is my solemn duty to advise you, Sir, to accept whatever immigration proposal that Lindsey Graham backs, and failing that, my resignation letter will be on your desk in the morning.” This didn’t accord with Kelly’s hawkishness as secretary of the Department of Homeland Secu-
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Chairman Xi — Is China Dreaming? UNITED NATIONS -Follow-
ing the celebratory Lunar New Year holidays, China’s ruling Communist Party announced that by John J. Metzler Chairman Xi Syndicated Columnist Jinping, the current President, would be allowed to stay in office beyond the constitutionally proscribed two-term limit. A tweaking of the constitution would allow in effect Xi, who assumed power in 2013, the opportunity to remain in power as long as he wishes. Why give up when you are having so much fun? After all it’s Chairman Xi who promoted the visionary “China Dream” plan and who’s engineering the massive Silk “Belt and Road Initiative” which signals both China’s global infrastructure building ambitions and strategic outreach program. So now as the rubber-stamp National People’s Congress dutifully meets in Beijing for its annual clap/cheer/chant session it appears that riveting constitutional change will be on the agenda too. Why is this so troubling for China and the wider world? We know Beijing’s authoritarian polity offers the usual mix of economic prosperity amid fanciful figures, tub thumping nationalism, and self-righteous historiography, all set to the clap on cue chorus of the National People’s Congress. But since the more rational days of the post-Mao era, the “deal” that the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) struck is that the paramount leaders of the world’s most populous country, would scrupulously stick to a decade in power before handing the mandate of heaven to the next comrade in line. Significantly the system allowed for collective leadership, which often resembled the board of directors of China Inc., more than the aged Politburo of the Maoist era. This all started with Deng Xiaoping who, as a victim of the horrors of Maoism and the so- called Cultural Revolution, feared that the rule of a cult like figure as was Mao Tse-tung was not only a domestic disaster but a dangerous harbinger for the future. To his credit, Deng paved the path for agricultural and economic reforms which led to some freedoms which during the past generation have certainly changed China for the better. Yet the political structure remains profoundly static and unchanged with the ruling Communist Party as the sole arbiter of power. Nonetheless to assume Xi’s accession to the CCP’s undisputed pinnacle of dictatorship equals a return to the dark Maoist era remains problematic. Despite his iron-grip on Chinese politics, and the CCP censorship in the state run media, the economic genie is long out of the bottle. Middle class Chinese traveling to Europe or the USA see for themselves that there’s a prosperous outside world. Whether or not Chairman Xi likes it, Mainland China has profoundly changed since Mao the “Great Helmsman” died in 1976. Despite its continuing political
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PRC would stay poor. This is no longer the case. Contrary to Western perceptions, China is hardly a booming market economy as much as a mercantile Corporate State under the leadership and patronage of the CCP and its various family See Metzler on 21
No Trade Barriers No, President Trump, it’s not true that if you tax imported steel, we “will have protection for the first time in a long while.” The oppoby John Stossel site is true. Syndicated Columnist If you raise tariffs on steel and aluminum, you punish consumers. Yes, such tariffs also punish Chinese producers and protect some American businesses and workers, but the tariffs will hurt many more Americans. They’ll hurt every business that makes things from steel or aluminum. They’ll hurt most everyone who buys anything. Tariffs are taxes, and they don’t just affect inanimate metal objects. They punish people. Even if China “dumps” products — sells below their manufacturing cost — that just means that China hurts its people and gives us discounts. We win. We get products. All the Chinese get is paper with pictures of American presidents printed on it. What can they do with those? Either buy our products, or invest in America. Either way, we win. Did we learn nothing from what happened when President George W. Bush raised steel tariffs? The trade barriers protected 1,000 jobs. But they destroyed 200,000 other jobs. Bush wisely withdrew the tariffs. Trade only happens when both sides think they are better off for making the trade. Win-win, or it doesn’t happen. Trade is always good because it is voluntary . Adam Smith figured that out
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The two most common ways to ice fish for lake trout are jigging and tip up fishing. The debate over which method is best has gone on for many generations and will likely continue for many more. Both techniques are extremely effective. Which one works best usually depends on the day and angler preference. Some days lake trout want to chase their prey, which makes jigging an effective method. Other days, the fish will only eat live smelt, and tip ups will far out-fish the jig rods. Compared to tip ups, jigging is generally more active and allows anglers to be more mobile. Spoons and bucktail jigs are common lures among lake trout anglers. Spoons use visuals and vibration to attract lake trout in hopes of triggering their predatory instinct to make them bite. Bucktail jigs work great when paired with a strip of belly meat from a sucker. Suckers can be purchased at bait shops near almost any lake trout lake. An effective jigging method is to drop your lure to the bottom, pound it a few times to stir up some silt, and then reel it up a couple feet before jigging. Mobile anglers will also often use a run-and-gun technique to hunt lake trout. Run-and-gun fishing allows an angler to cover more water and put their lure in front of a greater number of fish. This is most effective with highlypressured fish, or on days when lake trout are less ac-
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sired depth. When lake trout spawn in the fall, they do so in 30’ – 40’ of water. Many of those fish remain at those depths throughout the winter. While most avid lake trout ice anglers target those same depths all winter, some believe bigger fish will be caught in deeper water. Inside turns, humps, and steep drop-offs are also key areas to fish, as they are all prime feeding places for lake trout. Lake trout are extremely slow growing. Many northeast fisheries are managed for numbers, but not size. Some studies suggest that lake trout grow 2” – 4” per year for the first four years of their life. Then growth slows to 1” or less. Recently, a lake trout that was tagged in Lake Superior,
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While the techniques many ice anglers use to fish for lake trout might differ, the reasons most of us do it are universal. We love the chase, the camaraderie, and the excitement of those big lake trout head shakes. Lake trout fight hard, often feed aggressively, and present a challenge for even the most seasoned ice angler. Whether you fish tip ups, or prefer to jig, get out there and enjoy yourself this winter. Just remem-
ber, safety first. Don’t take unnecessary risks and always have safety gear with you. Tim Moore is a full-time licensed New Hampshire fishing guide and owner of Tim Moore Outdoors, LLC. He is a member of the New England Outdoors Writers Association and the producer of In Season Outdoors TV. Visit www. TimMooreOutdoors.com for more information.
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Enos Dudley did not expect to be hanged on that day! Efforts had been made to receive a reprieve from the Governor and the condemned man had received information from an unknown source that the previous day and again that very morning the Governor and his Council had met and worked out a deal in which a reprieve was to be given, but not made known until the execution was about to be performed. It was Dudley’s belief that the Sheriff had in his possession the reprieve but that it was not to be revealed until the black cap had been placed over his head covering his eyes. Supposedly, the hope of the Governor and other officials was that Mr. Dudley, thinking he was about to die, would confess to the killing of his wife. There were rumors elsewhere that a See smith on 17
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her husband. In many instances of a man accused with murdering his spouse there is another woman involved and this one was not an exception. Rev. Dudley had shown more than a casual interest in a local schoolteacher who was engaged to be married but still the recipient of romantic messages from Dudley including the statement that if he had someone like her to live with he would enjoy himself, and telling her he loved her. It was also told that he had threatened to leave his wife suggesting that they could
found in an upright position. Dudley also was not in favor of the body being dug up for examination by the physicians previously mentioned. Anyway, the Plymouth jury found him to be guilty of murder in the first degree and the judge ordered him to be executed by hanging on May 23, 1849. Before being led to the platform on that day Rev. Dudley was persuaded to sign a statement declaring his innocence. Once outside he was accompanied by a Rev. Mr. Hadley who prayed to God on behalf of Enos Dudley, after which the condemned man also
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On Friday, March 9th, Smuttynose Brewing was purchased at auction by the brewery’s top lender, Provident Bank, for $8.25 million.
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produce less than 15 thousand barrels of beer per year, and you can see why macro brewers are unsettled. This 40+% tax reduction for those nano and micro brewers compared to macro brewers (Bud, Miller and Coors) who only realize a 27% tax reduction for over 100k barrels / year spells more profit for the smaller brewers. But this does not fare well with macro brew-
ers because of market share and they are bound to try and regain leadership. The canning industry has also grown immensely due to the shear knowledge that beer is better packaged and preserved better in cans. If a can falls to the floor, it suffers a dent while a bottle breaks. If hops are a consideration within beer such as in IPA’s, light is a problem. UV light destroys hop potential
over time. Cans allow zero light in so hops last long in beer. The proposed and impending tax on im-
ported metals such as aluminum signals a small hike on all cans of liquids of the beverage industry. This tariff would help support the U.S. aluminum makers by only taxing the imports which then generates more income and jobs nationally. Currently, we import around 80% of this country’s need for aluminum. So if brewers had the option to choose American-made cans, they would be supporting a movement while helping their own cause. Since this also affects the soda industry, brewers are not the only target. And the brewing industry almost always has to buy a tractor trailer load of cans when they are about to can their offerings. So you can see why there are mixed ideas in the market that affects their products. Lastly, pre-printed cans are fading and blanks are being used as a cost cutting measure so you can imagine why you will be seeing more and more paper or vinyl labeled on beer cans. On Friday, March 9, 2018, Smuttynose Brewing went on auction as mentioned in an article in the February 1st issue, page 11, It’s Kinda of a Big Deal. They are an internationally shipped beer brand that may
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In this model, you can see why breweries fail without market strategy and a better-than-good product. Invariably, only a few late comers will survive. So, I believe we are starting to see that today. The future is still bright for New Hampshire’s beer industry but take note of the cracks. People who are signing up today to get their nano brewery license better have an awesome product or they will see all of their well planned efforts and investment go to waste. The competition is fierce out there and yesterday’s great beer is going to be challenged by a new brewer’s recipe tomorrow.
In the end, the buying public will always make wise choices due to marketing of a good product. Often, hype of a beer brand will drive a buying decision but know that the buyer drives the market. Get a good product to market, be consistent, and make it fun. That will either help make you a success in the limelight or an afterthought down the beer aisle. But whatever you decide, help support local brewers’ efforts... and enjoy great New Hampshire beer!
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comparable enforcer. Kelly’s military bearing and no-nonsense demeanor serve him well in the cockpit of Trump world. His extensive leadership experience in even more complicated, high-pressure situations has prepared him for an environment in which chaos and the sense of crisis constantly emanate from the top. In short, it is Kelly or bust. Trump should consider himself fortunate to have him, and avoid the fool’s errand of trying to find an improvement.
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during the Obama administration -- was allowed to retire with full benefits. No punishment. Shulkin remains unrepentant and baselessly blamed a computer “hack” for his top aide’s email shenanigans. The IG found no evidence of his backsidecovering claim. The ghost of Anthony Weiner lives. And just wait, another shoe of corruption is about to drop. According to The Daily Beast, another IG report involving Shulkin’s “use of his security detail to run personal errands” may be released in the next week. Shulkin’s response? Underlings are reporting that he is in the throes of “paranoia,” ordering an “armed guard” to stand watch outside his office and banning employees he suspects of “disloyalty.” The VA’s culture of fear and reprisals against whistleblowers is endemic. Accountability is rarer than a Siamese unicorn. Fiscally responsible vets seeking coverage for emergency room bills are punished for not seeing VA doctors enough. The administrators responsible for blowing a billion-dollar hole in the budget of the Aurora, Colorado, VA boondoggle have escaped any conse-
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quences. The last thing this corrupted bureaucracy needs is a Captain Queeg-meetsLeona Helmsley at the helm. As Colorado GOP Rep. Mike Coffman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee wrote in a letter to the White House last week: “Mr. President, you promised the American people that you would end the culture of corruption and bureaucratic incompetence that for far too long has defined the leadership of the VA. Unfortunately, Secretary Shulkin, by his conduct, lacks the moral authority to achieve your goals of a transparent, accountable VA.” President Trump, your corrupt VA secretary is hostile to you, to the truth and to the taxpayers. He needs to hear those famous words from you: “You’re fired.” Michelle Malkin is host of “Michelle Malkin Investigates” on CRTV.com. Her email address is writemalkin@gmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators. com.
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by robbing new workers of better jobs. The U.S. shouldn’t cling to expensive, outdated ways of producing things. We should adapt to the new jobs that America does better — high-end machinery, energy, and intellectual property like movies, music, medicine, internet startups, etc. Not only do Americans make more money doing those things, also they are safer in those better jobs. Do you want your kids to work in factories? That’s often dangerous and physically demanding work. I bet you’d prefer they take the new jobs. Yes, trade hurts some Americans. Some without new skills, or the right training, will struggle. But many, many more are better off — much better off — because of trade. On my Twitter feed, Trump supporters trash me for writing that. They like it when the president talks “tough” about foreigners. It helps politicians to sound like they’re getting tough on something, and trade is a popular target. “There has never been a trade deal as bad as NAFTA,” said Trump. He promises to “fix” it and, as always, he sounds confident. But his plan is not the answer. The ideal NAFTA reform would be elimination of tariffs — no government involvement in trade at all. We’d all be richer if that happened. John Stossel is author of “No They Can’t! Why Government Fails — But Individuals Succeed.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.
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$54 million in funding. Democrat policies, like the Promise Program, often result in more victims. Most murders occur in only a few neighborhoods in American cities controlled by Democrat politicians who refuse to provide the needed law enforcement. Democrat politicians protect illegal aliens and fight to legalize them; Democrats even shut down the government for them, despite the fact that (mostly young) illegal aliens kill 400-500 and victimize hundreds of thousands more Americans annually. Illegal drugs kill about 40,000 Americans annually, yet President Obama released thousands of convicted drug criminals from prison early and allowed tens of thousands of deportable illegal aliens convicted of selling drugs and/or other violent crimes to remain in our country. Democrats talk about strict penalties for gun crimes, yet President Obama prosecuted fewer than 50 of the 100,000 people annually that he claimed tried to illegally purchase guns. Punishments for straw pur-
chasers (people who buy guns for people who are prohibited from having guns (e.g., felons, drug addicts, mentally ill, domestic abusers)) wary widely, although their purchases (felonies) may help criminals victimize other people. Proper law enforcement would have avoided the Parkland massacre and many of America’s other violent crimes. Having trained, armed protection in our schools could prevent or minimize the losses in school shootings, but Democrats oppose protecting our schools. Stopping and punishing criminals doesn’t seem to be a Democrat priority. Democrat gun control proposals wouldn’t stop criminals; they’d only make law abiding people more defenseless and more victimized. Don Ewing Meredith, NH
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