MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: It’s time for the Barbershop. That’s where we talk with a group of interesting and well-informed people about what’s in the news and what’s on their minds. Joining us for our shapeup today are Sarah Westwood. She’s the White House correspondent for The Washington Examiner. She’s here with us in our Washington, D.C., studios once again. Welcome back. | More…
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Joe Biden compares supporters of due process to ‘Nazis’ who marched in Charlottesville.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s* recent announcement that her department will revise Title IX enforcement practices led one angry former vice president to compare her to white nationalists and neo-Nazis. |More…
The recently released UNH Interim Report Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate is not about the weather, but it does involve snowflakes.
Let me drop one on your tongue so you can get a taste.
“UNH must develop a sustainable inclusive campus climate and make diversity and inclusion integral to a 21st-century education where we are committed to each of our students becoming good global citizens.”
Here’s another one.| More…
This week, the sorest loser since Dickens’ Miss Havisham in Great Expectations, Hillary Clinton, began peddling her latest book What Happened. (No question mark at the end because it’s didactic, not really an inquiry. She knows the answer and she’s going to instruct us out of her infinite wisdom and years-long expertise, including two such losses.) | More…
President Trump is reviving efforts to drill for oil in the Arctic Circle — efforts Democrats have thwarted for 19.6 million acres.
His administration is drafting changes to regulations to allow oil drilling in about 2,000 of the 19.6 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. | More…
Last week, while the nation’s eyes were collectively glued to reports about Hurricane Irma, the University of New Hampshire published a chillingly Orwellian report that illustrates the extent to which America’s colleges and universities have become veritable progressive madrassas.
The interim report by the university’s Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate, titled Developing and Sustaining Inclusive Excellence and a Safe, Healthy, Equitable Campus Community, effectively makes the case that old-fashioned efforts at increasing diversity such as affirmative action aren’t sufficient enough because they don’t address the existence of people who oppose efforts at increasing diversity to begin with. Thus they must be transformed into mini George Soroses and become good global citizens. | More…
After a weeks-long review process that led to $7.5 million in cuts, Keene State College received a finalized budget Friday.
Departments began the fall semester a few weeks ago without final budgets, a situation several faculty members described as a first.
In an interview Friday afternoon with The Sentinel’s editorial board, Interim President Melinda Treadwell characterized the delay as a rip-the-Band-Aid-off approach preferable to multiple rounds of cost-cutting. | More…
Trying to understand the overall tax requirements to run a town can be quite confusing. One has to work through a blizzard of RSA’s that regulate how all taxes (including your property tax) are created, levied and collected.
Then there is the creation of the town budget that outlines how much property tax actually needs to be collected. | More…
SARGENT’S PURCHASE, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say a 66-year-old Maine man died after becoming ill while hiking up Mount Washington.
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department says Rolf Diamon, of Windham, Maine, was hiking up the Lion Head Trail with his son Saturday morning when he became sick and collapsed. | More…
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Two measures that ultimately failed in New Hampshire were among dozens of bills state Legislatures debated this session that would close or limit public access to government records and meetings, according to a review by The Associated Press and numerous state press associations.
One of the bills would have exempted building plans and construction drawings connected to a local building permit from the state’s right-to-know law. It was aimed at protecting security data included in some building plans, but opponents argued it was too broad. | More…
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