Gov. Chris Sununu says New Hampshire must move quickly to “get ahead of the crisis that is coming to its public university and community college systems.
“Where we are today is where we’ve been for 20 years and it is a dying system,” he said of the current status of the University System of New Hampshire and the Community College System of New Hampshire. “Both of these systems will fail if some sort of significant change isn’t made.” Enrollment continues to decline in both of these systems, Sununu said. We still have two of the most expensive systems in the country.
George Epstein
As we begin another year, I thought we should take a break from our lessons on how to win more at the poker table. Instead, let us contemplate how much alike are the games of poker and life. Do you know who said: “Life is just like a game. First you have to learn rules of the game, And then play it better than anyone else.”
It was none other than the famed Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein, who created the Theory of Relativity! If it is good enough for him, then I certainly must agree. . .
After we become expert in the rules of the game, it takes a good mind and lots of effort to learn the skills that make the difference between a winner and a loser between success and failure. Our first five columns in the
To the editor: Our situation in Los Angeles County is tragic, and there is plenty of blame to go around for what has gone wrong. But let’s remember that our common enemy is this virus, not each other. (“L.A. was uniquely vulnerable to this COVID catastrophe. Here is what went wrong,” Dec. 28)
COVID-19 is sneaky, contagious and deadly. If you were going to invent a virus to cripple the world, it would be one that people didn’t know they had.
If you have the flu, measles or even a bad cold, you would be in bed, not at work or a Thanksgiving dinner. Yet a virus that leaves many without symptoms is the same virus filling up our intensive care units and morgues.