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Please Help Us Build a New Chickenhawk Database

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Thursday, May 14, 2009—You might think that after being shown to be dead wrong on an issue of the utmost national importance — and with the most tragic consequences — a reasonable person would say “I’m sorry,” and shut the hell up. Chickenhawks, though, are not, by nature, very reasonable. The Bush administration is over, but not gone. And the notorious chickenhawks who provided cover for them by running their mouths on television still seem to be on the Rolodexes of the producers who run the talk shows. In fact, it almost seems like the Iraq War never happened. Unless, of course, you lost a …

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Portsmouth Gets “Street View”

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Friday, May 8, 2009—From today’s paper, with minor edits: “Google Maps added Street View to its coverage of Portsmouth a few weeks ago. The photos appear to date from last fall, judging from the ‘Going Out of Business Sale’ signs on the Klines Furniture building. We assigned our Wandering Photographer to take a virtual tour of the town and look for familiar faces. He found the bicyclist shown in the screenshot at right. In his yellow and black spandex, he looks an awful lot like Christ Svetanoff. In the lower photo, Dino Pappas may be sitting on the right hand bench in front of Caffé …

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It Was Twenty Years Ago Today!

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Friday, May 1, 2009—Seriously. It was twenty years ago today, on May Day, 1989, that Bill Gardner, New Hampshire’s Secretary of State for Life,* officially assigned the legal right to publish The New Hampshire Gazette to the current editor, publisher, &c., &c. This brief video, created by Dan Freund and Jason Tublewicz, of Kinney Hill Media Partners, contains the short version of how that came about. We’ll add a few details after the show. * OK, we’re kidding about “For Life”—but he has been in office since 1976. The pamphlet in question was titled, The Monster of Monsters, by the pseudonymous “Tom Thumb, Esq.” It …

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Memorial Bridge Makes the NTHP’s 11 Most Endangered List!

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Monday, April 28, 2009; 12:20 a.m.—Memorial Bridge, between Kittery, Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has been named by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as one of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. The placement of Wentworth-by-the-Sea Hotel, in New Castle, on the 1996 Most Endangered Historic Places list, is widely credited as a pivotal moment in its survival. Since 1988, 211 sites have been placed on the “Most Threatened” list. Only six have been lost. If that was a batting average, it would be .971. A rally in support of the Memorial Bridge, and its up-river companion the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge, will be …

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Bridge Rally Details Announced

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Wednesday, April 22, 2009—This just in: the details of Tuesday’s Save Our Bridges! Rally, scheduled for Noon on Tuesday, April 28, at John Paul Jones Park in Kittery. Thanks to Ben Porter, at PortsmouthBridges.com, for sending this. As of today, the weather prediction is for sunny weather and a high of 73 degrees. You can take this with a grain of salt, but it makes us feel better to hear what the weather service thinks. The Rally will take place at John Paul Jones Park, just across the street from Warren’s Lobster House in Kittery. We expect a sizable crowd, and there will be media …

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Public Meetings Scheduled re: Memorial, Long Bridges

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Wednesday, April 22—Two public meetings have been scheduled for next Monday, April 27, in Portsmouth and in Kittery, to inform the public about the now-underway study of the Memorial and Sarah Mildred Long bridges. The following information regarding the Maine-New Hampshire Connections study was released by Morris Communications on April 9. We should have posted it earlier. Sorry, we still don’t quite have the hang of this instant communications thing. Guess that comes from being a 252 year old paper-based lifeform. We shall aspire to do better. We would draw the reader’s attention to two things: (1) anyone wanting to ask questions must apparently bring …

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