School children who cannot prove they are legally in the US may soon be threatened with exclusion from public schools.
Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Danger of Ignoring Transparency and Accountability
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With the 2024 election days away, the issues being debated can be boiled down to how one defines freedom, investing in a sustainable economy, and the role of government. Integrity and ethics are also on voter minds – and not just for the top of the ticket.
Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Bosen Takes on Berlin City Council Vote on AG’s Northern Border Task Force
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On December 4, 2023, The Berlin City Council voted to have our police force participate in the Attorney General’s Northern Border Task Force along the Swanton Sector, stretching from parts of New York, through Vermont, and including the entire northern New Hampshire border.
Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Rand Trial Concludes; State Doesn’t Defend Its Calculation of Adequacy Cost
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From ‘A Book, an Idea and a Goat,’ Andru Volinsky’s weekly newsletter on Substack is primarily devoted to writing about the national movement for fair school funding and other means of effecting social change.
Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Peace Prize Points To Need for Nuclear Abolition
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For the third time in recent decades, the Nobel Peace Prize went this year to a group advocating the abolition of nuclear weapons as the only sure way to eliminate the threat they pose.
Education
Op-Ed: Rand Education Funding Trial Proceeds to Second Week
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The answer is either a used SUV or an out of state expert from Arkansas who will opine, for a fee, that the state of NH should consider school funding models used in developing nations to reduce the state’s burden of funding a constitutionally adequate education.
Energy
You Say K-Bar, I Say FUBAR: Eversource Woos the PUC
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Power to the People is a column by Donald M. Kreis, New Hampshire’s Consumer Advocate. Kreis and his staff of four represent the interests of residential utility customers before the NH Public Utilities Commission and elsewhere.
Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Rand School Funding Trial is Underway
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It all comes down to local control. The more equitable the funding, the more choices each school district has.
Education
Distant Dome: Two Weeks of Education Funding Legal Wrangling Ahead
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The latest round for education funding lawsuits enters the judicial ring this week in Rockingham County Superior Court and will be argued over the next two weeks.
Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Fear of Political Reprisal and What’s Up On School Funding Litigation
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Are you concerned about displaying a Harris/Walz political sign on your lawn?
The question makes sense. It will provide a measure of the current Zeitgeist. But what are we to say about our society when fear of reprisal is so prevalent that it undermines our political expression?