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Some are trying to make New Hampshire more like Florida

Some people are trying to turn New Hampshire into the Texas or Florida of the north. Other states are facing a similar attempted conversion fighting the same battle over vouchers or “Education Freedom Accounts” as here in New Hampshire. The programs proposed for Iowa and Missouri are ...

COMMENTARY: Executive Council derails commuter rail

At their last meeting of 2022, the Republican-controlled Executive Council put an end to an engineering study and preliminary design for the extension of MBTA commuter rail services from Boston and Lowell, MA to Nashua and Manchester. In a misguided attempt to save money, three Councilors ...

Win a bag of Southwest peanuts

Despite complimentary bags of nuts that contain about 17 peanuts (I counted once), and cancelling 15,700 flights a month ago (I counted those, too), I’m holding on to my Southwest Airlines tickets to Florida next month. After seriously considering a divorce from my favorite air carrier of 35 ...

Unpacking the effect of COVID

Headlines since the September release of student assessment results on the NAEP test, the Nation’s Report Card, have loudly echoed the devastating degree of learning loss children experienced during the pandemic’s disruption to schools. The loss is real, and schools are using numerous ...