The View from
Rattlesnake Ridge
"Few can turn political musings into poetic prose like Wayne King.”
“Wayne D. King exalts national dialogue in ‘Democracy Should be a Messy Business’ but that solutions are found in differing viewpoints given by people who respect each other. In ‘Looking for Hope: You’ll find it at the dump on Buffalo Road in Rumney,’ King is engaging about history, politics and our unifying bond as everyday people. Few can turn political musings into poetic prose like Wayne D. King.”
~ The New England Newspaper & Press Association.
Columns Past
August 24,2022 Supreme Resistance A Religious Judicial Taliban Has Taken Control
August 15, 2022 Dismembering the Alamo: Victor Orban's Fascist Plagarism
May 30, 2022: My Own Private Lupine Festival The pandemic may have canceled the Sugar Hill festival, but no one told the flowers.
May 15, 2022: A Firestorm is Coming: Supreme Court Prepares to Pull the Pin on Democracy
April 15, 2022: Checking our Democracy – The Lunatics Have Overtaken the Asylum
March 15, 2022: Our Moment
November 3, 2021: Growing Together Again - Picking Winners and Losers threatens to Further Divide the Nation
August 1, 2021: Toward A Fairer Distribution of Wealth
June 24, 2021: We the People: Re-defining Bi-Partisan in the Post-Trump Era
June 14, 2021: Celebrating the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
April 24, 2021: Two Pandemics, One Cure - Truth & Justice - Reconciliation Demands Truth and Justice as its Partner
March 27, 2021: A Tribute to Mike Marland, ‘The Laugh Track of My Life’
March 8, 2021: A Prophesy Wrapped in an Opportunity - Haaland Nomination Could be a Turning Point
January 10, 2021: Reflections on American Democracy from West Africa and Rattlesnake Ridge, NH
October 6, 2020: A West Wing Style Solution for Healing Around Supreme Court
October 2, 2020: Joe Biden’s Bobby Kennedy Moment . . . and Ours
July 25, 2020: Drumbeats From My Father
July 18, 2020: Rattlesnake Ridge to the World: Pardon Our Temporary Insanity
May 13, 2020: Roaring Back Economically - Now is the Time for a Basic Income and National Healthcare
April 11, 2020: Quiet, A Partisan Truce, A Reset, and, Perhaps, a Renewal
January 26, 2020: Lamar Alexander’s ‘Howard Baker Moment’
December 8, 2019: Saying Goodbye to Boofie, Life Lessons from a Wolf-Dog
November 10, 2019: Some Things Are Worth Losing Over: Politicians Can Learn from Military Heroes
October 3, 2019: Impeachment Talk in the Shadow of Rattlesnake Ridge
August 5, 2019: Leaving Home 2.0, A Farewell Salute To Rumney Folks
June 4, 2019: Want a Green Revolution? Build it from the Center and Work Outward – FAST
April 14, 2019: John Roberts’ Moment . . . Without Fear or Favor
March 19, 2019: Special audio interview: Wayne King: From Living in a Tent in College to Winning NENPA Column Award
February 14, 2019: NH Centennial Primary May Be its Swan Song
January 14, 2019: There is a Force Bringing Americans Together - Donald Trump
December 14, 2018: The White Mountain National Forest at 100
November 9, 2018: Run Beto Run - For President
October 14, 2018: We Need to Talk - Saving Democracy Means Changing the Game
September 18, 2018: Establishing an American Citizen’s Dividend - UBI
August 25, 2018: Without a Healing Narrative Trump Wins Reelection
June 15, 2018: A Storm is Coming
May 12, 2018: Democracy 2.0: Democracy Should Be a Messy Business with Lots of Noise
May 29, 2018: Looking for Hope? You can find it at the Rumney Dump
April 28, 2018: The Future of Work: The Gig Economy Is Here To Stay
April 27, 2018: The Value of Native American Indian Investment in America
April 8, 2018: Lessons from the March for Our Lives and the Scottish Parliament - Time to Give 16 and 17-Year-Olds the Right to Vote
March 18, 2018: Finding the Center: Reversing The Hollowing of the Political Center in America
March 17, 2018: What Next? Blood Doping at Sandwich Fair?
March 10, 2018: The Hidden Time Bomb within the Good Employment News
March 3, 2018: A National American Social Dividend and a New American Paradigm
February 14, 2018: Restoring the American Voice
January 16, 2018: Trump Insults the Entire Native American Community
January 13, 2018: The Deep State from Rattlesnake Ridge, NH
January 1, 2018: Merit Guided Governance: NH’s 1992 Senate Was One to Remember And Emulate
December 17, 2017: Re-Imagining GDP Are We Measuring the Wrong Things - or Do We Just Need to Expand Our Thinking?
December 3, 2017: Government Doesn't Create Jobs, Neither Do Businesses
November 20, 2017: In Search of a Steady Hand and an Open Heart Reinventing and Rebuilding the American Idea in a Post-Trump World