Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Right to be Left Alone v. The Right to Abuse Your Kid
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States regulate the hours and conditions of child labor. Federal legislation focuses on hazardous jobs.
InDepthNH.org (https://indepthnh.org/author/andru-volinsky/page/4/)
States regulate the hours and conditions of child labor. Federal legislation focuses on hazardous jobs.
Trump signed another one of his illegal executive orders that became effective last week. This order bans children he does not like from participating in Head Start programs.
The NH Supreme Court issued its most recent school funding decision last week in the ConVal case. The decision upheld (affirmed) Judge Ruoff’s ruling that the state underfunds its responsibility to pay for a constitutionally adequate education.
There will be no happy meals served by kind lunch ladies in Lisbon or Berlin today but Waterville Valley residents will rejoice in their ability to spend state tax monies earmarked for education on sewer repair projects.
They are a subsidy for private and religious schools that don’t produce results and aren’t supported by the public.
I hate to even raise the topic of racism. I know how painful it is to be wrongly accused.
The Senate vote caving to Trump’s CR left Democratic colleagues in the House swinging in the breeze.
It all started when my running buddy (and constitutional law professor) Arpy Saunders approached me in the locker room of the Concord Y to help him form a legal team.
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for NH’s Josiah Bartlett Center, its president Drew Cline and board member Rep. Dan McGuire (R-Epsom). Cline, who doubles as the chair of NH’s state board of education, released a report on public education spending that uses questionable economics to make the claim NH spends too much.