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EDUCATION
Huge Florida study finds school choice improves performance of public school students
The expansion of Florida’s school choice scholarship program…
HEALTH CARE
A disease outbreak is a bad time to ban disposable plastics and paper
Forcing people to carry reusable food and beverage containers…
ENERGY
Study estimates N.H. cost of Green New Deal at more than $74,000 per household in first year
Two weeks after a supporter of the Green New Deal won the New…
STATE BUDGET
Against federal guidance, Fiscal Committee transfers relief funds to state budget
In a surprise motion, the Legislature’s Fiscal Committee voted…
TRANSPORTATION
A skeptic’s guide to commuter rail boosterism
SUMMARY: To promote taxpayer funding of a quarter-billion dollar…
TAXATION
Addicted to tax revenue: The potentially dangerous rush to raise the vaping tax
The state’s first vaping tax took effect on January 1, just…
REGULATION
The justifications for prolonged closures are unraveling
When the governors of Florida and Georgia announced that they…
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Tax incentive scams exposed in N.J., Maryland
Economic development tax incentives continue to shrivel under…
BETTER GOVERNMENT
On public policy, New Hampshire should always beat Vermont, as a matter of principle. That goes double for the handling of money. The state that sends a self-proclaimed “socialist” to the U.S. Senate should never get to say it’s more responsible with a dollar. New Hampshire has bragging rights here. The Granite State is 12th […]
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Five guidelines for reopening New Hampshire’s economy
BETTER GOVERNMENT, FEATURED, REGULATIONNew Hampshire’s economy spent March and April of 2020 rapidly contracting. Cell phone data and reported restaurant and retail store revenue show that consumers voluntarily began staying home in the early March. Then on March 27 the governor issued a stay-home order and ordered “non-essential” businesses closed to in-person interactions. That one-two punch put nearly […]