Garry Rayno
Distant Dome: New Ethics Law Mandates Recusals
When they write laws, which legislators do, are those scribes of statutes benefiting from what they write?
Politics
Distant Dome: Watch Closely or Your Property Taxes Will Increase
Declining revenues particularly business taxes is a considerable problem and coupled with the loss of federal COVID aid with its secondary boost to revenues, and potential changes coming from the Washington D.C. in some key state programs like Medicaid, as well as slashing higher education grants and the picture is pretty bleak.
Distant Dome: Outside Group Checking In on Voucher
In the next week or two, the fate of the expansion of the Education Freedom Account program will come into focus.
Distant Dome: Who Does the New Hampshire Legislature Represent?
The New Hampshire Legislature is the third largest governing body in the world.
Many use that to say it is also one of the most representative bodies in the world, but is that true?
Business & Economy
Distant Dome: History Repeats on Sununu Budget Transition
Irony may not be quite the word, but for people who were around nearly 40 years ago and remember another gubernatorial transition involving a Sununu, the current transition from his son to Gov. Kelly Ayotte had an eerily similar echo.
Distant Dome: Another Side to Vouchers and Learning
Edelblut noted the state is doing better than the nation as a whole returning kids to academic levels before the pandemic hit and set learning back considerably as remote learning replaced in-person learning and family members became each other’s only social interaction for months.
Op-Ed
Distant Dome: Lots of Options for Education Funding Changes
The 2025 session of the New Hampshire legislature began with a number of hot button issues that have garnered headlines from universal Education Freedom Accounts to restricting abortion rights.
Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Reading Between the Lines of Education Freedom Account Expansion
The advocates for opening the state’s school voucher program, Education Freedom Accounts, to all students in the state regardless of their parents’ income did a massive public relations and organization effort before the public hearing last week on House 115, which would remove the salary cap from the four-year old program.
Op-Ed
Distant Dome: Lawmakers Increasingly Trying to Upend Local Control
But in recent years, the New Hampshire legislature has been attempting what was once the unthinkable in our Granite State, trying to upend once precious “local control.”
Op-Ed
Distant Dome: Kearsarge Regional School District Rejects Budget Cap, Supports Public Schools
If you followed the New Hampshire legislature the last few terms and listened to Education Freedom Account advocates, you would think public schools are cesspools of indoctrination, obscene materials, bullying and protectors of perverts.