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Coyotes are top of mind here in the Bay State. I’m old enough to remember when a man ran for mayor of Newton promising that “Newton will hunt down and kill the coyotes.”

IDEAS | CHRIS CHIAPPINELLIMy wife and I fantasized about quitting our jobs. Instead, we took a hike.

Turns out, there was a happy medium between giving it all up and living the life of our dreams.

EDITORIALBiden owes the public explanations on mysterious airborne objects

Conspiracy theories are harder to shoot down than the recent spate of UFOs. Still, the Pentagon should try.

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The seal of the State of New Hampshire outside the Hillsborough (South) County Superior Courthouse in Nashua, N.H., Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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Michael Delaney: a problematic nominee

His supporters say federal appeals court nominee Michael Delaney is a dedicated advocate for sexual assault survivors. The family of one high-profile survivor would beg to differ.

Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, Annie Kuster, and Chris Pappas

US Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, shook hands with a voter while campaigning in Manchester, N.H., Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020. Most of the Democratic candidates were in New Hampshire ahead of the state's primary.

Keep New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary

The New Hampshire primary was born out of a need to return the democratic process to the people, not leave it with party insiders.

Juliette N. Rooney-Varga and William R. Moomaw

Environmental activists gathered to protest the US Forest Service for moving forward with plans to log mature forests at Telephone Gap and in several other projects in the Green Mountain National Forest at the Rochester Ranger Station in Rochester, Vt., on Nov. 12. This clearcutting of forest sections follows President Biden's recent executive order from Earth Day to conserve mature and old forests on federal public lands.

US Forest Service should let forests grow

Letting forests grow would support the full range of native biodiversity while removing carbon from the atmosphere.

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Pete Buttigieg supporters watched coverage of the New Hampshire primaries on Feb. 11, 2020, while attending a watch party for the former South Bend, Ind., mayor. Buttigieg finished second, behind Bernie Sanders, in the race to become the Democratic nominee for president. Joe Biden, the eventual nominee, and winner in the general election, came in fifth.

With its meet and greets, N.H. is best suited to be first primary

The value of placing New Hampshire first is that it requires candidates to do meet-and-greet campaigning, something that is getting lost in the overemphasis on political ads and campaign money. 2:15 a.m.