Opinion Archives - Page 21 of 196

NH is not Florida: Book ban bill should be defeated

Jodi Picoult,

SB 523, a bill that has been introduced in the New Hampshire Legislature and is scheduled to be voted on by the state Senate on Thursday, April 4, would allow a principal or another individual to unilaterally ban a book without a review committee. If the principal does not ban the book, the parent who challenged the material could appeal the decision, and the school board would vote – not media specialists, not educators, not people who literally have been trained to decide what is and is not appropriate for kids of a certain age. At no point, if a book is banned, would the public have the opportunity to appeal the decision.

(Opinion) Granite State Patients Save with Senate Bill 555

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Bill passed Senate and makes way to House to help provide savings to patients at the pharmacy

(Opinion) NH Lottery spent the past 60 years winning

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It would be easy to say the New Hampshire Lottery’s 60-year history is all about winning. It would be accurate, of course. After all the New Hampshire Lottery has paid out more than $6.2 billion in prizes since in 1964.

(Opinion) Medicaid unwind shouldn’t undo health centers

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Unlike hospitals and other health care providers, which receive less than 20% of their revenue from Medicaid, NH's nonprofit community mental health centers receive between 80% and 90% of their funding from this source.

(Opinion) Centralizing school finance will backfire

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If it stands, Superior Court judge David Ruoff’s decision that New Hampshire’s school finance system is unconstitutional threatens to make our housing crisis worse and to undermine the quality of local public schools.

(Opinion) Whatever happened to winter?

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Like many Granite Staters, I grew up playing pond hockey in New Hampshire. On many a winter afternoon, I would grab my hand-me-down skates and stick and tramp through the snow to a nearby pond.

(Opinion) Biden administration proposal would harm New Hampshire researchers and patients

Julia Moore,

New plan could prevent university medical discoveries from making it out of the lab

(Opinion) Protecting our seniors

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As the commissioner of the New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID), my regulatory philosophy is that intervention in the free market should only occur when well-defined, solid objectives can be obtained by such intervention, or when inherent monopoly structures prevent a free market competitive system from operating.

(Opinion) NH should help our military and their family members vote

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It isn’t always easy for service members to cast a ballot. Whether at sea — as I often was over my 13 years in the U.S. Navy — or permanently stationed halfway around the world, military members and their families don’t have the luxury of a quick walk or drive to their nearest polling place.

(Opinion) New legislation erodes rights for NH youth, families

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Back in 2018, a very New Hampshire moment happened: The New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a bill affirming the rights of transgender people in the Granite State to be free from discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodation. Today, those values are being tested.