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LGBT Issues Force Girls to Choose Between Privacy and Ostracism

January 18, 2025March 22, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The culture clash is getting more press as girls begin to push back. Their privacy has been invaded, and no one even warmed them. At Pennsylvania’s Honesdale High School girls discovered the new transgender policy when they found a biological boy in women’s underwear in their locker room while they were changing. Girls in other schools … Read more

What is the Superintendent in Laconia Hiding?

December 29, 2018December 29, 2018 Ann Marie Banfield

I’ve been searching for information on the mental health data collected and shared on students in the Laconia School District. Accessing this information has become challenging, given the responses by the current Superintendent in the district, Brendan Minnihan. One thing is clear from the information that has been provided, mental health data on the students is … Read more

Manchester Democrat(s) Using a Student for a Political Smear is the Scandal

December 14, 2018December 14, 2018 Steve MacDonald

In the wake of David Scannell’s admission that he violated a student’s privacy (and probably several laws), we should consider how we arrived at this act of lawlessness. It began when someone leaked an email Mr. Girard’s sent to a voter/constituent. From all the statements and reporting I can find, Rich Girard only sent the email … Read more

Manchester Democrat David Scannell Violates Student Privacy (and the law?) for Political Hit

December 12, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Manchester Democrat David Scannell has admitted to leaking a letter from a lawyer to the Manchester Board of School Committee about a student. Scannell is claiming the public had a right to know. But legal communications are typically exempt, and he knows that. That’s not the only hole in his story. His claim is riddled with them.

Eugene Volokh On NH’s New Privacy Amendment: “What Does it Mean?”

November 13, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, and he’s got a question. What does this amendment to the New Hampshire Constitution mean? “An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.” He asked his readers to … Read more

Does the Passage of Question 2 Harpoon Any Future Effort to Pass Marcy’s Law?

November 8, 2018 Steve MacDonald

An overwhelming majority of New Hampshire voters supported question 2, an amendment to the State Constitution enshrining privacy rights. “An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.” Another proposed constitutional amendment that did not survive legisaltive scrutiny, thanks to an all-out blitz by activists and the … Read more

ABOUT page updated with our Privacy guidelines

October 21, 2018 Skip

Frankly, and to be blunt about, we really don’t have one (ABOUT, Policies and FAQs): Privacy Your data is your data – frankly, we’re not actively collecting anything (other than we have turned on Google Analytics and THEY may do something with your info but that’s between you and them because, frankly, we don’t care … Read more

Jeff Day – candidate for NH State House, Hillsborough County District 6 (Goffstown)

September 26, 2018August 5, 2018 Op-Ed

Hello, fellow Goffstown residents,

Exciting news! I’ve decided to run for state representative. By way of introduction, I am Jeff Day, and I am vying for one of the 5 seats in the NH House representing the town of Goffstown. I am a Goffstown native. I am your neighbor, your friend, your classmate. My kids have gone to school with your kids and grandchildren.

The Trans-Bill is Back and There’s Gonna Be Trouble…

July 15, 2024February 27, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Trans-Bill is back (HB 1319) as Kimberly Morin joins me to talk about the legislation, how it threatens actual rights, violates women’s privacy, carves out special exceptions, and why we don’t even need it. You can find other ways to listen here.

EDUCATION: Common Core (National Standards): Follow Them Or Expect Better?

September 26, 2018April 8, 2013 Ann Marie Banfield

As public schools in New Hampshire begin the process of aligning curriculum to the new Common Core (National) Standards, parents should take the time to know what this means for their children.

The National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) together formed the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) to develop a set of academic standards. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is a set of learning standards in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics. These standards replaced existing state standards in these subject areas.

To be fair, the old New Hampshire state education standards were some of the poorest academic standards in the country. Unfortunately, under the new CCSS, we will not see much academic improvement, while at the same time we are embracing some truly troubling “reforms.”

Contrary to the claims of the CCSS public relations machine, experts have uncovered the following about Common Core:

The Common Core only allows States to make changes to the standards by a factor of up to 15 percent. Therefore, if a parent or state official identifies a problem with the CCS, to whom do they appeal? It is unclear who governs these standards, and it seems as though the people of New Hampshire now have to lobby the NGA and CCSSO in Washington, DC in order to make changes necessary to respond to the needs of New Hampshire children.

Google Gives Us A Hint About Warrentless Electronic Searches

September 26, 2018March 6, 2013 Steve MacDonald

From CNET

Google today became the first Internet company to shed light on a highly secret — and controversial — warrantless electronic data-gathering technique used by the FBI.

The technique allows FBI officials to send a secret request to Web and telecommunications companies requesting “name, address, length of service,” and other information about users as long as it’s relevant to a national security investigation. No court approval is necessary, and disclosing the existence of the FBI’s request is not permitted.

Google’s admission, part of its transparency policy, could not include specific details, but they did say this much.

Go Ahead Punk. Film that Police officer.

September 26, 2018August 31, 2011 Steve MacDonald

a citizen’s right to film government officials, including law enforcement officers, in the discharge of their duties in a public place is a basic, vital, and well-established liberty safeguarded by the First Amendment.”