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Dave Hess thinks the definition of an adequate education passed by the House is just horrible. Well, Dave, weren’t you one of those pounding his fist on the table, no-no-no we have to define adequacy, when some of use were arguing that the Legislature was under no obligation to define an adequate education. Having sowed the wind, …
Here are some questions for the Governor about his constitutional amendment that he would rather not answer. Governor, your amendment states at the outset that, “In fulfillment of the duty to cherish public schools set forth in the preceding Article, the general court shall define an adequate education, regularly determine the total statewide cost thereof …
left that the Lynch Amendment is a Trojan Horse for the income tax, it has been endorsed by the rabidly pro-income tax Concord Monitor.
And who says our present system is NOT progressive. From NRO: The Tax Foundation folks grouped together all federal, state, and local government spending and revenues. Then they looked at the net effect on income quintiles. The results confirmed the extent to which American government has become a redistribution scheme. The bottom 20 percent of …
The Democrat spin coming out of Concord is that either you’re in favor of the Lynch amendment or you’re in favor of an income tax. In the words of State Senator Martha Fuller Clark, “If the Legislature and the citizens defeat this amendment, they are saying the state should fund the full cost of education.” …
My friend former Laconia Mayor Tom Tardif has long been concerned about the treatment of so-called "detail work" here in NH. You know- you see it all the time at construction sites, church parking lots, and concert events. While in any other circumstance, such work arrangements would be properly considered "subcontracted" labor, it’s not so …
It’s about time that some of the myths being ventilated about education funding get cleared up. So let’s start with three that are particularly relevant to the current legislative effort to define an adequate education by the Court’s July 1, 2007 deadline: Myth #1: “If the Legislature doesn’t define an adequate education, the Supreme Court …
SOME INCONVENIENT TRUTHS ABOUT EDUCATION FUNDING Read More »
Every so often, a story comes along that really makes you wonder if it can possibly be true at all. You know, a tidbit so deliciously obvious in proving some point that it must be made up. Most of these stories tend to be related to either political correctness or culture. So it is with …
You’re not “taking a position for or against the Lynch proposal at this time”? You have got to be kidding! If the New Hampshire GOP would actually consider supporting a constitutional amendment that writes the misbegotten Claremont decisions into the state constitution, that destroys local control of schools, and that greases the skids for an …
Last week, we briefly discussed General Peter Pace’s comment that he believed that homosexuality was immoral. Needless to say, conservative religious groups praised his statement; obviously homosexual rights groups decried it. It all comes down to your sense of morality, and where that sense of morality stems from. Is it a case of religious training, …
Do you believe in relative or absolute morality? Read More »
