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Trash Talking: Coors Light Wins Emmty Prize for Litterature
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If you’re not familiar with this trashy survey, it’s one I conduct in conjunction with Canterbury’s annual spring roadside cleanup.
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Distant Dome: Education Priorities Upside Down in Legislature
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From the new proposed rules for education minimum standards to alternative education opportunities, the state legislature and the executive branch appear to have their priorities upside down.
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California’s Early School Funding Litigation and Updates on ConVal/Rand, Flynn Historical Marker Cases
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The California Supreme Court found that education is a fundamental right because “education is the lifeline of both the individual and society” and “a major determinant of an individual’s chances for economic and social success in our competitive society [and]…[as] a unique influence on a child’s development as a citizen and his participation in political and community life.”
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Local News Blues: What Doesn’t Hurt, Itches
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Man, I love hanging with fellow journalists. They go right to the hard questions, right to the doubt, right to following the money.
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Author John Maclean Donates To UNH’s Milne Collection
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When I saw that John N. Maclean put out an edition of the “Big Two-Hearted River” for which he did the foreword, I had to have a copy for my collection and personal library.
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Distant Dome: Lawmakers May Need to Face the Budget Music
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Or they may ignore the quagmire of picking winners and losers with an election looming and leave the mess to the next legislature to clean up.
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Vouchers–and what happened in Texas after the Rodriguez case.
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Vouchers are all the rage in NH thanks in large part to Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut who promised the cost would be about $3 million in the first two years. It was actually $23 million and 90 percent of that went to parents who were already sending their kids to private or religious schools or homeschooling.
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New Hampshire and Texas Groups Call National Guard Mission a Misuse of Tax Dollars
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Groups in Texas and New Hampshire say deploying the New Hampshire National Guard to Texas, where 15 New Hampshire soldiers joined Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star this week, wastes tax dollars better spent elsewhere.
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Common Man for Ukraine Readies for 9th Aid Mission
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They have already made eight trips to war-torn Ukraine. Now, New Hampshire people are gearing up for their 9th aid mission.