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If you missed last night’s Granite State Live, you should check it out. Great show. Keith, Terese, and guest Leah Cushman covered the NH DCYF and Famly Court hijinks, New Hampshire’s decades-long failure to protect its children, and the systemic (ongoing) cover-up of this failure. But that is not why I have gathered you here … Read more
Urgent Action Alert: NH House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee Hearings on January 30th The New Hampshire House is back in session and the real fight begins There is a lot to tell you in this email alert: First, the bill that we warned you about several weeks ago is now House Bill 159 Rep. Roy and … Read more
If you missed the live show, we open the show on the state’s dysfunctional DCYFand Family Court and what you can do to help NH Kids. w/Special guest Leah Cushman. Later, it’s town deliberatives, budgets, warrant articles, and how to effectively participate in town government. w/Special guest Claudine Burnham We open the show on the … Read more
Last fall, we reported on the shenanigans of Lisa and Joshua Urovitch. The Massachusetts residents got caught voting from a rental property address in Concord, New Hampshire. While they owned the property, they were not living in it, they just pretended to futz with New Hampshire Elections in 2022 and 2020. New Hampshire’s keystone cops … Read more
There is no connection between money and academic outcomes unless you mean that kids can learn more for a lot less – there is a lot of evidence for that. But the Ed god behemoth demands to be fed, and those who benefit politically from this arrangement insist the answer is more. Always more. They … Read more
This week, my committee continued hearings on our bills. My HB 216 would end the arbitrary limit of one year’s time on workers comp that can apply towards one’s pension service. No opposition, and the pensions system’s cost estimate was extremely conservative: 10% of all members to gain 6 months additional service credit! Since one … Read more
It seems that the State has decided that they need to move mental and medical clinics into your child’s school. Why even parent your children? It appears as if the State, in conjunction with school officials, will happily take over your job. There is no need to take your child to see their doctor during … Read more
The courts have said don’t do it. Do not block “constituents” on social media – if you use that platform for politics. The lesson is to separate the two, but not everyone is able. In some cases, especially for the Marxist-Leaning lot, they could no sooner separate politics from discourse than bones from their flesh. … Read more
The State New Hampshire and its towns and cities provide the opportunity to obtain a publicly funded education to every school-age child, regardless of income. And no one complains that this unfairly benefits higher-income households. To illustrate the point, the median household income in Hopkinton is $130,216. That’s 55% higher than in Concord ($83,701) and … Read more
Labor unions negotiate benefits on behalf of all employees of a collective bargaining unit, not just their own members, unions say. Since non-members receive the benefits, they should be compelled to pay the union for negotiating them. Because right-to-work laws forbid non-union employees from being compelled as a condition of employment to pay any portion … Read more
Upcoming Hearings – Mark Your CalendarsShow Up and Testify Tuesday, January 28 – House Children and Family Law CommitteeRoom 206-208, Legislative Office Building, 33 N State St., Concord, NH⚠️1:30PM – HB553-FN – relative to the definition of abuse and neglect and conditions triggering a rebuttable presumption of harm in abuse and neglect cases❌ Oppose ❌It is highly … Read more
From the Women’s Defense League The hearing for this gun control bill is on January 30th at noon in the Legislative Office Building, rooms 202-204. Once again, the out-of-state gun control lobby is pushing another draconian gun control bill in one of the SAFEST STATES in the country – House Bill 352 – An act prohibiting the possession of … Read more
Although many people resist acknowledging this, we use a kind of Marxism to fund our schools: The Accidental Marxist The Accidental Marxist, Part 2 That is, by taxing each property owner in a school district a flat rate on the assessed value of his property, we take more from people who have more. So that’s … Read more
One of the many problems with universal EFAs is that they take money from people who don’t have it, to give to people who don’t need it. Let’s ask a straightforward question: Under what conditions should we give tax money to, or spend tax money on, people who can afford to get along without it? … Read more
There are a lot of problems with the various reporting mechanisms related (in particular) to COVID. They lied about positive tests, cases, test efficacy, threats, cures, and safety (to name a few), but a new FUBAR has entered the equation. From Steve Kirsh. New Hampshire deserves the credit for vaccinating over 50% more elderly people … Read more
One of the many problems with EFAs is that they simply continue the Pay-and-Pray paradigm that is at the root of our failing school system. Let’s ask a straightforward question: Under what conditions should we spend tax money on something for which we have no specific, agreed-upon goals (and therefore no way to judge whether … Read more
Let’s ask a straightforward question: Why should we spend tax money on education? The New Hampshire Constitution gives one possible answer: Education is essential to the preservation of a free government. The New Hampshire Supreme Court gave an expanded version of this answer: Every educable child should have the opportunity to acquire the knowledge … Read more
From the Women’s Defense League On Thursday, January 30th, beginning at 10:00 AM there will be two gun control bills heard in the New Hampshire Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee. The hearing will be in rooms 202-204 in the Legislative Office Building behind the State House. The first bill is really two gun control bills in one as you … Read more
What did we learn from the Universal School Choice HB115 hearing? More importantly, WHY do I, as a Veteran Home Educator and Home Education Advocate in NH, care so much? Well, folks, I’ll tell you. The politics of this thing are ugly. Education Freedom Accounts and “School Choice” are ideas that Republicans nationwide invented in … Read more
The opportunity facing the Republicans is a once in a generation moment similar to the Reagan Presidency. Reagan and Trump were each succeeding two of the worst presidents ever to reside in the White House, with a resounding mandate from the voters. The Left will debate the presence of a mandate because of the relatively … Read more