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Ayotte Vetoes Book Ban Bill, Fetus Videos and Locker Room Bill

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | July 15, 2025

Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed a bill that would have school districts establish a process to ban books and other “inappropriate materials” from public schools.

Op-Ed

Distant Dome: New Hampshire Has an Upside Down Government

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | July 12, 2025

Instead of starting at the bottom, the state starts at the top where those with the most are taken care of nicely, while those at the bottom face barriers to the help they need.

Business & Economy

State Revenues End Fiscal Year on an Upswing

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | July 8, 2025

State revenues ended the 2025 fiscal year on a strong note, but the melody for the entire year remains off key.

Courts & Corrections

Distant Dome: NH Education Funding Still Before the Courts

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | July 5, 2025

Education funding reform advocates scored a nearly walk-off grand slam last week with the state Supreme Court’s ConVal ruling.

Courts & Corrections

Reaction Mixed on ConVal Education Ruling

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | July 1, 2025

Some believe the state Supreme Court got it right once again on education funding and taxes in its ConVal decision, but others say it fails to give lawmakers and the governor their due for education policy and funding.

Business & Economy

NH Supreme Court Sides with School Districts on Adequate Funding

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | July 1, 2025

In a 3-2 decision, the state Supreme Court has again found the state has failed to meet its constitutional obligation to provide its students with an adequate education and to pay for it as it did in the Claremont ruling.

Op-Ed

Distant Dome: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | June 28, 2025

Republicans were the majority party both years, however, the nearly evenly divided House voted overwhelmingly for a budget with bipartisan support two years ago.

Business & Economy

Legislature Continues to Target Transgender Youth

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | June 26, 2025

House and Senate lawmakers Thursday approved the final versions of bills to prohibit medical procedures for transgender minors, to restrict voting and changes to public education on their last session of the 2025 session outside of veto day this fall.

Op-Ed

Distant Dome: Broken Promises Galore in State Budget Plan

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | June 21, 2025

One sitting legislature cannot bind the hands of a future legislature is an adage heard frequently in the State House.

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    By Michael Ferber, Speaking of Words         A few years ago a controversy arose at UNH over American Sign Language.  For a long time the introductory course in it had two or three sections, but suddenly the sections ballooned to eight or ten.  A commission was set up to look into the reasons for this surprising jump in students.  Were they all really interested in communicating with deaf people?  Students planning to be social workers had long been taking a year of ASL to help them in their future work, but these new students were not making such plans.         What we found out is that a lot of students had learned it was easy to get a good grade in a year-long course in ASL and thereby dispose of the foreign-language requirement for the BA.  A survey showed that the average grade was A- and the amount of homework very modest; with twice as much homework students in first-year Spanish were earning an average grade of B-.  This seemed unfair, somehow, but what could be done?  I was appointed to the commission, so I read several books about ASL, watched videos, and listened carefully to a colleague on the commission who was a native signer as well as native speaker of English and a professor of linguistics at UNH Manchester.  I did not master ASL, but I learned a lot about it.

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    By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org LACONIA - Robynne Alexander, 63, of Manchester, who was initially chosen by the state as the top bidder to buy the former Laconia State School property for $21.5 million but had inadequate funds to close the sale, pleaded guilty Wednesday to operating a fraudulent real estate investment scheme. Acting U.S. Attorney Jay McCormack announced the plea in a news release.

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    WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on escalating violence in Syria: “I am deeply concerned by the uptick of violence in Syria, including Israel’s decision to launch airstrikes on Damascus and Suwayda. This escalation could undermine and endanger Syria’s stability and derail progress made by Special Envoy Tom Barrack towards achieving normalization between Syria and Israel. Concurrently, Syria’s authorities must commit to peacefully restoring order in Druze areas and pursuing accountability for any security forces who have committed violations in Druze communities.

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