Op-Ed: NH needs skilled workers. This old Stratham campus could help
A few months ago, I joined George and the ROMEOs for breakfast at the Country View Diner in Greenland. The ROMEOs are a group of retirees who meet up regularly for coffee, eggs, and lively conversation. They wanted to talk to me about a building many of us regularly drive by: what was once the Great Bay Community College campus on Route 33 in Stratham. Over coffee, they made the case that the building should be training young people for skilled work again. By the time the plates were cleared, they’d convinced me.
Op-Ed: 16 Nursing Homes, One Bankruptcy, a threat to our seniors
If you have a parent, a grandparent, or a spouse in a New Hampshire nursing home, there's roughly a one-in-five chance their care is in the hands of a company that filed for bankruptcy this year — and the people who write the rules in Washington have spent the past year making the problem worse, not better.