Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Trump cuts funding for lifesaving research.
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I am talking about dollars and cents here, not damage to our nation’s dignity, ethics or reputation as a reliable ally. That damage may be incalculable and may be everlasting.
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I am talking about dollars and cents here, not damage to our nation’s dignity, ethics or reputation as a reliable ally. That damage may be incalculable and may be everlasting.
HB 638 creates a possibility for parole for prisoners serving a legislatively imposed automatic life sentence for first degree murder; “legislatively imposed” because there is no sentencing discretion.
Why didn’t I write about the atrocities perpetrated by President Trump or his abject betrayal of law enforcement in his pardon of violent insurrectionists? Why didn’t I write about the other voting blocs that supported him who will next be betrayed?
And then there is the cost. In NH, as of the end of June 2024, the cost of imprisoning an inmate in the state prison system is about $78,000 a year.
With all of the uncertainty swirling about education in NH as a result of school funding lawsuits and cretinous efforts to micro-manage what is taught in schools and who can use which bathroom, Governor Ayotte’s leading new policy announcement was (drumroll) to ban cellphones in schools. Republicans cheered.
My former Sunday School students will recognize the name of Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve as a member of a presidential cabinet. It’s important to know about her and what she accomplished, and helped FDR accomplish.
There are ten cookies on a plate. Good ones, not Oreo double stuff. The rich guy in charge takes nine of the cookies and gives them to his friends. He then tells you, “Look out, that guy in the shadows over there is trying to take your cookie.”
Have I told you the story of Croydon, NH? It’s an example of how people, working together, can make a difference at the local level.
The lawyers made their arguments in the ConVal case to a depleted Supreme Court on December 10th. Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald recused himself from the ConVal case (but not from our Rand case) because he was the Attorney General during the first year or so of ConVal. Justice Hantz Marconi is suspended while she fights criminal charges stemming from her speaking to Governor Sununu about an investigation of her husband.