Brad Cook

Columnist at New Hampshire Business Review

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Articles

The Alto Knights (2025)

1 week ago | flickeringmyth.com | Brad Cook

The Alto Knights, 2025. Directed by Barry Levinson. Starring Robert De Niro, Debra Messing, Cosmo Jarvis, Kathrine Narducci, and Michael Rispoli. SYNOPSIS:Warner Bros. has issued the mob swan song story The Alto Knights on Blu-ray. You only get a code for a digital copy, with no extras found on the disc and just a one-minute micro-featurette included with the digital copy, but that’s not a surprise given how poorly this film did at the box office.
Honoring Swope, Sutter and Truncellito

2 weeks ago | nhbr.com | Brad Cook

During a May 6 panel discussion at the Currier Museum of Art hosted by New Hampshire Civics, retired Union Leader publisher Joseph McQuaid illustrated civics in action by reading from the obituary of John Swope, which had run in the paper that day. Swope, and two other New Hampshire citizens who have died in the last month, exemplified what NH Civics aims to instill in today’s youth by advocating for civics education in public schools.
The Andromeda Strain (1971)

3 weeks ago | flickeringmyth.com | Brad Cook

The Andromeda Strain, 1971. Directed by Robert Wise. Starring Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, David Wayne, Paula Kelly, and George Mitchell. SYNOPSIS:The Andromeda Strain arrives on 4K Ultra HD courtesy of Arrow Video. This is the same disc as the Blu-ray Arrow issued in 2019, but the image quality is even better here, of course. Arrow Video has continued its 4K Ultra HD upgrades of minor classics with The Andromeda Strain, which was previously issued by the boutique label on Blu-ray in 2019.
Threatened cuts to the federal budget will affect us all

1 month ago | nhbr.com | Brad Cook

City Year, public radio and TV are at risk Proposals for the next federal budget appeared in the outline set forth in the recently passed budget reconciliation bill. In addition to those, the Trump administration is reported to be planning to submit some “recission” bills to Congress. These are bills that reverse promised spending. Finally, the President’s use of executive orders and the actions of Elon Musk’s budget-cutters have frozen or cut other programs.
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

1 month ago | flickeringmyth.com | Brad Cook

The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, and John Vernon. SYNOPSIS:Clint Eastwood’s 1976 classic The Outlaw Josey Wales makes its 4K Ultra HD debut. The film looks great, and you get a nice smattering of bonus features as well as a code for a digital copy.
NH Business Review

1 month ago | nhbr.com | Brad Cook

Self-inflicted wounds lead to budget and tax problems in NH and Washington Watching the budget process in Concord and Washington unfold — with tales of crises due to lack of resources and revenue, and the resultant need to cut services, eliminate departments and reduce benefit levels — leads to a number of observations. In Concord, where the biennial budget process has been playing itself out, Gov.
Rule of law vs. power

1 month ago | nhbr.com | Brad Cook

It has become apparent two-plus months into the second Trump administration that the fundamental issue confronting the United States is whether the rule of law or the raw exercise of power will prevail. It appears to be that simple, and that important.
A tale of two senators

2 months ago | nhbr.com | Brad Cook

Two United States senators made news in the same week in March. Jeanne Shaheen, the senior senator from New Hampshire, and Alan Simpson, retired senator from Wyoming, were in the news as she announced she was not running for another term, and he died. Both are significant for the same reason, even thought they were very different. Shaheen came to New Hampshire from the mid-South when she met Bill Shaheen, from New Hampshire, when he was in law school in Mississippi.
What’s going on at the Legislature

2 months ago | nhbr.com | Brad Cook

What’s going on at the Legislature A sampling of pending bills, including housing reform and tax law While it is easy to focus on Washington, although painful, important things go on at the New Hampshire Legislature each year, especially the first year of the biennium. In addition to the state budget and tax policy, very important and primary in the focus of the 424 legislators and senators, there are about 1,000 bills to be considered.
Lessons from American history

Feb 28, 2025 | nhbr.com | Brad Cook

Given all the noise and bizarre action emanating from Washington since Jan. 20, a look back at key documents from American history may provide some guidance about what our national principles should be.