IN HIS April 15th op-ed, Frank Edelblut outlines the process recently taken to update the Minimum Standards for Public School, aka the 306s. While his accounting of the process is not wrong, it’s not an entirely honest portrayal of what happened, why and when.
NEW HAMPSHIRE has new opportunities to lead on energy policy that promotes jobs, economic development, and reliable clean energy. For decades, New Hampshire has relied on aging energy resources and insufficient diversity of generation resources for reliability while electric rates continued …
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MASSACHUSETTS struck yet another blow against science and logic in March when the Massachusetts Supreme Court announced its decision to uphold a law passed by the Town of Brookline in that state to ban tobacco and vapor products for any person born in the 21st century — for the rest of their…
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Friday, May 03, 2024
I RECENTLY learned that Cinde Warmington, a Democratic candidate for governor and former lobbyist for Purdue Pharma, is portraying herself as a “health care advocate.”
AT A TIME when reasonable people in New Hampshire recognize that the most pressing problems we are facing are housing, childcare, the health care workforce, and climate change, the majority party at the State House is focused on none of those things. Their top priorities are bills that discr…
Thursday, May 02, 2024
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Wednesday, May 01, 2024
IN AN op-ed April 16th, state Rep. Len Turcotte (R-Barrington) compared two land-use bills in the state legislature to Chairman Mao’s Great Leap Forward of collectivist central planning in China.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
IT’S SUPPORTED by nearly three-fourths of Granite Staters. It’s supported by politicians from all parties. Governor Chris Sununu has said repeatedly that it is something he would sign into law.
THE GRANITE STATE is experiencing a real housing crisis. For too many, affordable housing is not available or accessible in their communities, making it hard to attract and retain a talented workforce. One way we make housing more affordable for families is by modernizing our building codes …
Monday, April 29, 2024
ON FEBRUARY 8, 2024, a bill (SB 439) co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of 18 New Hampshire senators was approved by a voice vote in the state Senate. The bill, which would codify a 2023 executive action by Gov. Chris Sununu, prohibits our state from contracting with or investing in any comp…
I EXPECT I would have voted for Herbert Hoover, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt certainly knew when patriotism trumped partisanship. As England was being pounded in the Blitz by the Luftwaffe, the president recalled defeatist Ambassador Joseph Kennedy (JFK’s father) from the Court of Saint Jam…
Saturday, April 27, 2024
FOLLOWING the death of former governor Walter R. Peterson in 2011, an article appeared in NH Business Review reminding readers that as “the Republican Party moved to the right, Peterson often chose to endorse Democrats, including Democratic Governor John Lynch.” The current governor has chos…
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