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"The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right."Â -- U.S. Circuit Judge Learned Hand (1872-1961)
DONALD MAURICE KREIS
CF Heterozygote, Self-Appointed Architecture Critic, Cooperator, Ratepayer Advocate
[N1303K is a mutation on Chromosome 7 associated with cystic fibrosis. In case you were wondering. Find me on most social media as @DMoKreis. Interested in the work I do at my day job? Check out oca.nh.gov.
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Department of Guilty Pleasures: Peter Sis
Once upon a time -- i.e., before there were iPhones and an omnipresent internet -- I had a fabulous gig. I was working as a staff writer...
D. Maurice Kreis
Feb 8, 20213 min read
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Penny Lane it Ain't
Here's the thing about me as an architecture enthusiast and occasional critic: I have no taste. Specifically, I have no training of...
D. Maurice Kreis
Feb 4, 20213 min read
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Dorothy Hansine Andersen, Superstar
At the risk of repeating myself in tiresome fashion: If any woman in medical history is entitled to posthumous recognition by the New...
D. Maurice Kreis
Feb 3, 20214 min read
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Mary Vought, Big Pharma Apologist and CF Mom, Makes her Move on Maryland
If there's one thing I can't stand, as a Cystic Fibrosis dad, it's people who exploit their connection to CF for ignoble purposes. Hello...
D. Maurice Kreis
Jan 30, 20216 min read
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Gloom and Doom on Seventh Avenue in NYC
One strolled down Seventh Avenue in New York City between 31st and 33rd Streets like a god, and soon one will scuttle down that urban...
D. Maurice Kreis
Jan 27, 20213 min read
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About that Red Ink at the Co-op
The management team at the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society noticed my post from yesterday, highlighting the fact that unaudited...
D. Maurice Kreis
Jan 26, 20213 min read
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More Curmudgeonly Co-op Comments (and Compliments)
My last blog post took up one of my favorite subjects -- the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, the Upper Valley's customer-owned and...
D. Maurice Kreis
Jan 25, 20213 min read
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Gripes from a Congentitally Cranky Cooperator
I'm sticking with the sentiment that has been attributed, perhaps apocryphally, to Emeritus Professor Clyde Stickney of the Dartmouth...
D. Maurice Kreis
Jan 23, 20214 min read
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The Hill We Climb
The inaugural poem, recited at the Capitol on January 20, 2021 by poet Amanda Gorman When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find...
D. Maurice Kreis
Jan 20, 20213 min read
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Regional Civic Architecture Takes a Step Out of the Gloom
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their their appointed rounds." These...
D. Maurice Kreis
Jan 12, 20217 min read
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Ten Ways to Talk Back to Big Pharma
My daughter called it a "niche dad obsession" last year, back when she was in high school. Now that she's in college, learning a thing...
D. Maurice Kreis
Jan 6, 20215 min read
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All 26 Books I Read in 2020
Trivedi, Breath from Salt McConaghy, Migrations Obama, A Promised Land Barry, A Thousand Moons Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body...
D. Maurice Kreis
Jan 1, 20211 min read
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Skinny Boats, Homes of the Rich, but No Sanctuary: The AIAVt 2020 Awards
Well-toned teenagers working in unison to zip about on lovely New England rivers and lakes, in sleek and skinny boats called "shells" --...
D. Maurice Kreis
Dec 31, 20209 min read
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A "Column" from Me about "Wholesale" Power
"Don't talk about net metering," I remind myself all the time. Just follow the link for my latest column. Wholesale = sale for resale. ...
D. Maurice Kreis
Dec 30, 20201 min read
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Beware the Aggravated Rhinocerus: A Review of "Breath from Salt"
Eureka! I finally have evidence of something I have long believed: that my family and I have a piece, albeit a small and inconsequential...
D. Maurice Kreis
Dec 27, 202018 min read
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Aux Armes, Citoyens!
That's certainly a more compelling pitch than "the states need to think about taking back resource adequacy." But the latest edition of...
D. Maurice Kreis
Dec 26, 20201 min read
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Outrageous and Demanding: My Pantheon of Cystic Fibrosis Heroes
Christmas Eve offers a great excuse to do something I've been meaning to accomplish for quite a while: write down my pantheon of heroes...
D. Maurice Kreis
Dec 24, 20208 min read
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COVID-19 and Cystic Fibrosis: Latest CFF Registry Data
The case numbers are rising quickly, as you would expect, but there have still been only three deaths as of 12/10/2020.
D. Maurice Kreis
Dec 13, 20201 min read
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Will the Granite State fail the Granite State Test?
Just about a year ago -- on December 30, 2019 -- the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission (PUC) made a little-noticed but really...
D. Maurice Kreis
Dec 6, 202010 min read
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The New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission Gets a Very Bad Letter
Since I became New Hampshire's ratepayer advocate in 2016 I've been saying that energy efficiency is the hill I die on. My latest column...
D. Maurice Kreis
Dec 2, 20201 min read
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