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MURRAY: NH State Supreme Court Accepts Murray Amicus in Rand v. State

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 30, 2026 Contact: Thomas J. Murray Jr. · 781-389-6107 · Tom@GIPAmerica.org N.H. Supreme Court Accepts Windham Resident’s Amicus Brief Placing 1850 Constitutional Convention Record Before the Court in Rand v. State Brief, filed in support of neither party, documents how the 1850 Convention drafted an express school-funding mandate for Part II, … Read more

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OPINION: Claremont’s Missing Word

On August 14, the New Hampshire Attorney General filed an appeal to the state Supreme Court that could change how the state funds public education.  In the appeal, the AG’s Office argued that the court’s Claremont school funding decisions were so legally flawed that they should be overturned.  In a series of decisions starting in 1993, the … Read more

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HOHENSEE: Overturn Claremont-Hands Off Our Rights!

TL;DR: The NH Attorney General has submitted a 125-page legal brief to defend the State of New Hampshire Executive branch’s position on overturning the NH Supreme Court’s Claremont decision and its progeny. It’s a battle between the Executive and Judicial branch for control over public education. It’s a Statist argument: it does not restore or … Read more

Ian Underwood

A Deep Dive Into The Claremont Decisions Part VII

With former NASA planetary scientist and AI researcher, Ian Underwood Paul Ingbretson continues the critical Claremont Decision interviews with a New Hampshire based mathematician and former NASA scientist who offers much needed clarifying common sense about the implications of the Supreme Court’s now-infamous Claremont rulings. Missed the previous installments? Disclosure: Ian is a longtime contributor … Read more

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A Deep Dive Into The Claremont Decisions Part VI

NH Claremont Decision Ep 5 with former House Counsel Sen. Bob Guida Paul Ingbretson continues the Claremont Decision discussions with an interview with former NH Representative and Senator Bob Giuda. Bob has also been an outspoken critic of the Supreme Court’s Claremont rulings and supported legislation intended to rein it in. Missed the previous installments?

Ed Mosca

A Deep Dive Into The Claremont Decision Part V

NH Claremont Decision Ep 5 with former House Counsel Ed Mosca Paul Ingbretson continues the Claremont Decision discussions with a n interview with former NH House Counsel, Ed Mosca. Ed has been an outspoken critic of the Supreme Court’s Claremont rulings since they first came down and has written two articles published in the Franklin … Read more

Dan Itse

A Deep Dive into NH’s Claremont Decision Part IV

NH Claremont Decision Ep 4 with former N.H. State Rep. Dan Itse Paul Ingbretson continues the Claremont Decision discussions with an interview of Dan Itse, many term Fremont, N.H. House Representative and chair of the N.H. House Committee on Constitutional and Statute Recodification. He is widely respected for his research into the history and meaning … Read more

A Deep Dive into NH’s Claremont Decision Part III

Paul Ingbretson continues the Claremont Decision discussions with a public Q&A featuring presenters Attorney Greg Sorg and Senate Counsel Attorney Rick Lehmann. Queries and points were brought by a number of N. H. State Representatives and other members of the public. I want to again thank Paul Ingbretson for making these available for us to … Read more

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A Deep Dive into NH’s Claremont Decision Part II

Paul Ingbretson continues the Claremont Decision discussion with Senate Counsel Attorney Rick Lehmann, who also practices law in New Hampshire. He’s been involved with the Court filing amicus briefs on behalf of the Senate. ln this podcast Rick lays out some of the separation of powers issues resulting from those decisions. If you missed Part … Read more

Greg Sorg

A Deep Dive into NH’s Claremont Decision

In part one of this podcast series, attorney Greg Sorg is a former NH State Representative who has successfully filed briefs with the Supreme Court arguing against continuing involvement of the court in legislative functions. He lays out the history and key points of the Claremont Decision. I want to thank Paul Ingbretson for making … Read more

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How School Funding Works (Part 1)

One of the things that allows so much nonsense to be bandied about when discussing school funding is that almost no one — including legislators, judges, and DoE officials — seems to understand how SWEPT (Statewide education property taxes) and adequacy grants are related. In what follows, I’ll use nice round numbers that approximate but … Read more

Equity Requires a Ceiling, Not a Floor

The Democrat-controlled Commission to Study School Funding has issued its final report.  There’s no chance that a Republican-controlled government is going to implement the recommendations of this report.  (At least, one hopes that’s the case, but as  Winnie-the-Pooh would say, you never can tell with Republicans.)

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Groundhog Day

In the film Groundhog Day, Phil keeps waking up to the same day, over and over, already knowing what’s going to happen, and powerless to stop it.

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Inspector Volinsky Runs For Governor

Andru Volinsky, Executive Councilor in District 2, has announced his run for Governor, joining Democrat Senate Majority Leader Dan Feltes to create a primary. Volinsky has refused to take a pledge against broad-based taxes, such as an income tax or a sales tax. “I think if you take the pledge, you shut down honest conversation,” … Read more

GrokInterview: Frank Edelblut, NH Commissioner of Education – Part 5

And yes, I put NH Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut into a prickly position on this but hey, GraniteGrok is NH’s leading and most influential political blogsite – of COURSE this was going to come up. Andru Volinsky – no interview about education should take place without a mention that Andru Alinsky Volinsky was responsible … Read more

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