Letter: Alter Northern Pass to Benefit N.H.

To the Editor: Connecticut’s plan to purchase 20 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2020 — the topic of an article in the May 9 Valley News and an editorial on May 19 — is laudable. It’s a goal each New England state should embrace. But achieving the goal at the expense of Granite Staters has got to be a non-starter. …

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Letter: Old-Style Casinos Are Doomed

To the Editor: Concerns about the viability of building casinos in New Hampshire are misdirected. Everyone talks about competition from Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine. That really is short-term thinking. Building a bricks-and-mortar casino is like investing in eight-track tapes. They’re doomed. If New Hampshire wants big chunks of gaming money that will grow for a while then it should consider Internet gambling. A …