Ellen Kolb

Making good news, close to home

hands forming a heart around a baby's feet

I’ve headed to the State House a few times during this legislative session, since things like assisted suicide and medical conscience rights are up for debate. Urgent national news presses in from all sides as well. It’s almost enough to pull me back to where I was in my lobbying days, certain that politics wasContinue reading “Making good news, close to home”

Open Book: a classic outside a classroom

Greek amphora decorated with images of warriors from the story of the Iliad

I was casual about the reading lists from my English courses in high school. “Recommended” reading looked different to me from required reading. I interpreted recommended as “not quite assigned.” When I read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology – the required starting point for what was at the time a 3-year Advanced Placement English curriculum – IContinue reading “Open Book: a classic outside a classroom”

Ableism on display in Concord

stormy sky, over a beach posted with a "dead end" sign

I took notes at the New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee’s January 2025 hearings on HB 476-FN, a 15-week abortion limitation, and HB 254-FN, assisted suicide. Here are some impressions. HB 476-FN, a New Hampshire bill to establish a 15-week abortion limitation, drew online opposition from 11,000 people on the House’s online testimony system. At theContinue reading “Ableism on display in Concord”