Jim Splaine

Diversity of housing is critical in any community. Lower mixed with higher incomes brings a richness and balance that dollars alone can't match.

I had to go to my old Merriam-Webster Dictionary to do this column. A "billion" is defined as: "1, a number equal to 1,000 million; 2, a very large number."

Like other little boys, I wanted to be a fireman. Then I wanted to be a policeman. Playing around the trains in my Portsmouth North End neighborhood, I wanted to become a locomotive engineer. Then in my teenage years I wanted to pitch for the Red Sox. Now a few decades later, I still dream a lot.

“A whole civilization will die tonight." It is unconscionable our nation would threaten or potentially enact that level of terror.

Meeting Karishma Manzur reminded us that there are some exciting not-so-well-known candidates running for major office in our state.

America250 will bury a time capsule in 2026. Jim Splaine says don’t just watch history—make your own and leave a message for the future.

Those of us here now are guardians of our future, and the education of the next generation is our most important job.

With a CDC that is underfunded and understaffed, Portsmouth may have to go it alone for a while in the next pandemic.

With an air base having nuclear bombs and a navy shipyard servicing submarines, word was that Portsmouth was targeted.

I clearly remember the very first march when about 30 of us walked through our downtown for LGBTQ+ equality about 35 years ago.