Your school board has indicated it wants to cut administrators and the budget. Even though we regularly see surpluses in the $2 million range, a suggestion that we hold flat our budget and cut it by our surplus was met with screams right out of The Shining. And of course, any staffing cuts would be disastrous to education, that just goes without saying though many have to say it over and over because a lie often repeated has a chance of being confused with truth. This blog has been reporting for four years that Timberlane is hugely overstaffed. We can prove it six ways to the Overlook Hotel. | Keep Reading at Timberlaneandsandown
Baseless Histrionics Over School Staffing
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Tagged Donna Green, Staffing, Timberlane Regional School District
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Family Profile: Homeschool Successes
Education is not a one-size-fits-all endeavor. Educational options, particularly homeschooling, allow families to customize education to fit each child’s individual needs.
As part of our occasional Family Profile series, we asked New Hampshire home-educating families to share their success stories with us. We set no parameters or guidelines. What we received is nothing short of marvelous. | Keep Reading at School Choice for NH
Posted in Education, NH School Choice, School Choice for NH
Tagged Home School, Michelle Levell
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Manchester Pays $89,000 in Lawsuit Challenging Anti-Panhandling Practices
The City of Manchester has paid $89,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by the ACLU of New Hampshire (“ACLU-NH”) and New Hampshire Legal Assistance (“NHLA”) on behalf of Theresa Petrello challenging Manchester’s anti-panhandling practices. | Keep Reading at InDepthNH
From ATTWN: Sidewalk Advocacy, Through the Eyes of the Workers
And Then There Were None has just released its latest short video, and you’re encouraged to share it on whatever platforms you use. Here, a few former abortion industry workers share their thoughts on what pro-life witness looked like to them from inside their clinics. | Keep Reading at Leaven for the Loaf
Supreme Court allows full enforcement of Trump travel ban
The Supreme Court doled out a victory for the Trump administration Monday, ruling that the third version of the president’s immigration travel ban can take effect while it is being challenged in the lower courts.
The latest version of the extreme vetting order was introduced in September and sought to curtail the admission of visitors and would-be immigrants from eight countries — Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. |Read more at the Washington Times
Senate Bill Kills Obamacare’s Taxes on the Poor
It was as inevitable as, well, death and taxes that the Democrats would react to the Senate tax reform bill with public lamentation, rending of garments, and portentous declarations about the death of the Republic. It was no surprise, then, that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) charged the Republicans with “tearing down our democracy” or that Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) also accused them of “undermining democracy.” In reality, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is among the best pieces of legislation produced by either house of Congress in decades, not least because it eliminates the individual mandate and medical expense taxes. | Keep Reading at the America Spectator
Data Point – Differences between the Senate and House Tax Reform bills
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Tagged Heritage, Tax Reform, US House, US Senate
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Free State Blockchain Digital Assets Conference a Huge Success
This weekend, the Free State Bitcoin Shoppe went mobile for the first time. We attended a bitcoin conference happening in our hometown of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The occasion is the arrival of bitcoin powerhouse Bruce Fenton, his businesses, and his family, to move to NH as part of the ongoing freedom migration that’s been happening for almost 2 decades. | Keep Reading at Free Keene
Tales from the BudComm: we don’t need no stinkin’ private sector
Cemeteries. Usually a very small part of any town or city’s budget but it is there. It seems that every town has at least one within its boundaries; mine, due to historical reasons, has a bunch of them. Many of them were old family plots started well over a hundred years ago and over time, the town took “ownership” of the land and care of the plots | Keep Reading at GraniteGrok.com
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, GraniteGrok
Tagged Budget Committees, Gilford, Skip Murphy
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New Hampshire substitute teacher arrested after allegedly encouraging middle schoolers to smoke pot
A former substitute teacher in New Hampshire encouraged a group of middle school students to smoke marijuana and even gave one of them a vaping device, authorities said.
Elisha Mahar, 20, of Rochester, was charged with four counts of endangering the welfare of a child in Somersworth Thursday. | Keep Reading at Daily News
The New Media Militia 