Off the coast of New Hampshire are the iconic Isles of Shoals.
Somewhere around the middle of those isles is a dotted line — the state border between New Hampshire and Maine.
As part of our series Surrounded in which we look at life in and around New Hampshire’s islands, Jason Moon found out that line has been the cause of some intense disagreement over the years. | More…
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The New York Times has corrected five stories on President Donald Trump’s response to the Charlottesville protests, admitting in each report to misquoting what the president said in the aftermath of the violence.
Four of the corrected reports misquoted what Trump said about who is to blame for the violence, and a fifth report from two star reporters misquoted what Trump said about the push to tear down Confederate statues. One of the corrections is egregious, while others are fairly minor, but taken together they reveal a trend of careless mistakes in reporting on Trump’s remarks. | More…
In New Hampshire, most public school funding originates in the pocketbook of local taxpayers and most of us hope we elect a local school board that watches out not only for the students but also the taxpayer. It doesn’t always work out, but we have had some very good board members in Franklin.
A much larger problem has occurred at the State Board of Education level. Unfortunately, our state has appointed State School Board members for 18 of the last 20 years that loved regulations and micromanaging our public schools. | More…
Two decades ago today – Saturday August 30th 1997 – the ex-wife of the heir to the throne flew in to Paris with her new Egyptian boyfriend after a Mediterranean holiday on his yacht. They dined at his dad’s showpiece, the Ritz, and shortly after midnight left via the rear entrance and got into a Mercedes driven by the hotel’s deputy head of security. He was drunk, and in the underpass at the Place d’Alma he lost control of the car. Diana, Princess of Wales was pronounced dead at 4am on Sunday August 31st. She was 36. | More…
“…the real radicals today are those who point out the obvious that is not supposed to be noticed in order to protect Progressive sacred absolutes, in this case egalitarianism pushed to the level of absurdity.
The HYP professors should have included a specific warning to the students that the “actual bigots,” those who seek to “protect the hegemony of their opinions by claiming that to question those opinions is itself bigotry,” will, unfortunately, include many of their teachers and administrators.” |More…
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Each generation wonders about future generations. What should we make of this?
A Greek Life retreat at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) was promptly canceled this weekend after a banana peel was found hanging in a tree.
“To be clear, many members of our community were hurt, frightened, and upset by what occurred at IMPACT,” Interim Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Alexa Lee Arndt remarked in an email between Greek leaders, |More…
This weekend Darryl W Perry and I manned a Libertarian Party of NH outreach booth at the first-ever NH Cannabis Freedom Festival and it went extremely well! Over the course of three days at the festival, we found that over 67% of attendees were Libertarian or on the borderline, according to the “World’s Smallest Political Quiz“. | More…
State lawmakers have been out of session for about two months, but hard feelings over the fiscal 2018-2019 state budget continue. The conservative New Hampshire House Freedom Caucus is livid this week over what one of its leaders calls “an outrageous abuse of the legislative process.”
The Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee held its first meeting since the close of the legislative session Friday. Its 10 members unanimously approved about $90 million in “off-budget” spending of federal grant and revolving loan funds that had traditionally been included in the budget in past years. This year, the items were taken out by the House and kept out by the state Senate. | More…
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