Entries by Andrew Cline

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State figures undercount COVID-19 hospitalizations

The COVID-19 hospitalization totals posted on the state’s website and given in its daily briefings are incomplete and do not include all hospitalizations, the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy has determined. The figure for total hospitalizations includes only people who were hospitalized when their positive test result was first reported, the Department of Safety’s […]

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Sununu: focus education funding on kids, not systems

An education funding system in which education dollars go to families rather than directly to school districts is “the ideal,” Gov. Chris Sununu said at the Josiah Bartlett Center’s first Libertas Virtual Event on Thursday. New Hampshire should focus on student outcomes, not how much funding the system gets, the governor said.  “You can sum […]

House Speaker Dick Hinch, R.I.P.

House Speaker Dick Hinch, R-Merrimack, was a gentleman of cheer and goodwill. Though he held strong convictions and would fight aggressively for policies he thought were right for New Hampshire, he believed that politics should be conducted with civility and understanding. Humble and unassuming, he was an unlikely political leader in our social media age. […]

How private property saved the Pilgrims from socialist misery

The 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ landing in the New World is a time to reflect on important lessons we want our children to remember about America’s founding. One of the most critical is that hippie communes don’t work. Yes, the Pilgrims who arrived in Massachusetts in 1620 promptly tried to create a socialist workers […]