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Education Freedom Accounts program nets 1,000 additional students

The war over public education was on full display last week in the battle over PragerU’s financial literacy course and the State Board of Education’s 5-0 decision to approve it. Despite opposition from the vast majority of speakers and letter writers, the board — stacked with school ...

Here we go, Yellow Sox!

For those wondering why the Boston Red Sox are wearing Nashua fire hydrant colors, I’m with you and decided to get some answers. 2023 has not been the best Sox season of late, so why parade as the Boston-Nashua Fire Plugs? Even non-baseball fans, like my daughter Liz, a Boston resident, ...

NH business tax cuts are just trickle down economics

CONCORD — Despite politicians’ claims of business tax rate cuts spurring the state’s economy, a recent study indicates the state’s economy would grow faster by putting additional money in the hands of low- to moderate-income residents. The issue brief by the New Hampshire Fiscal ...

Speaking of words: They-them-their

Twice in the last fifty years or so we who speak English, and especially we who write English, have been pressed to change what pronouns we use when referring to a person of unknown gender. Until late in the last century the “correct” pronoun, the one we were taught in school and saw in ...

State has had 30 years to fix ed funding system

This year is the 30th anniversary of the state Supreme Court’s Claremont education decision, but the fundamental issues raised by the five plaintiff communities is not yet “settled law.” Currently two lawsuits over education funding and what constitutes an adequate education are before ...

N.H. to America — ignore the headlines, we’re going first

Read news coverage of the 2024 presidential primary calendar, and you’ll see words like “in limbo, “unsettled” and “in flux.” But ask New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan about the notion that New Hampshire won’t hold the first primary, and he’s got a word of his ...