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Worst Legislature ever? Not by a mile!

By Monitor staff

A recent letter to the editor referred to the 2011-12 New Hampshire Legislature as the worst in history. There's no scientific method for fact-checking such a statement. And, admittedly, if you're expecting state lawmakers to look out for college students or women or gun safety, the current Legislature probably isn't your cup of tea. Nonetheless, the statement did make us wonder: Had the letter-writer never heard about the Assembly of 1680? That was the very first New Hampshire Legislature. Among its preoccupations: coming up with a good definition of drunkard.… 0

February 7, 2012

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Monitor editorials represent the views of the newspaper's editorial board: Publisher John Winn Miller, Editor Felice Belman, Editorial Page Editor Ralph Jimenez and Managing Editor Ric Tracewski.

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Allow Indonesians to apply for asylum

It's not a story one would expect to see come out of New Hampshire: Nearly 100 Indonesians, longtime residents of Dover, including some with children who are American citizens, face imminent deportation. Their plight is a test of America's… 4

February 6, 2012

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Table contracts to manage Medicaid

The state's Medicaid program is poised to become a managed-care system. That has many of the state's 130,000 Medicaid recipients rightfully worried - particularly those with a developmental disability. They want to know what's… 5

February 5, 2012

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Football players pay a big price to play

It is, as poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge said, the willing suspension of disbelief that allows readers to see the stately pleasure domes of Xanadu, be caught up in a play or an opera, and weep at the death of a woman portraying a swan. Something… 4

February 3, 2012

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No special favors for cancer hospital

A bill co-sponsored by House Speaker William O'Brien and House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt would exempt the for-profit Cancer Treatment Centers of America from approval by the state's certificate-of-need board before building… 8

February 2, 2012

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State of state good, at least for now

Gov. John Lynch gave his final State of the State address yesterday. The only governor to serve four consecutive two-year terms had a long list of accomplishments to cite. But the speech was less notable for those accomplishments than for… 2

February 1, 2012

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Lawmakers would legalize discrimination

Feel free to discriminate - New Hampshire doesn't mind. That's the appalling message contained in legislation under consideration in the New Hampshire House this session. House Bill 1264 doesn't literally say that, of course,… 62

January 31, 2012

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A clever plan to save Webster's birthplace

New Hampshire has the only self-funded state park system in the nation. While the Legislature has been in turn parsimonious and generous in agreeing to fund capital improvements to the system, it insists that fees cover the parks' operating… 1

January 30, 2012

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A revolting batch of bills doomed to fail

A revolution of sorts is under way in the Legislature. Some members have sponsored bills countermanding or declaring invalid a variety of federal regulations. While amusing, their kicking of federal shins is a waste of the Legislature's… 9

January 29, 2012

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Warm and rainy winter is not a fluke

Something that's become a common sight around New Hampshire: a snowmobile with a "For Sale" sign on it. A sight that's probably never been seen before in the Granite State: golfers using a cordless drill to insert their… 67

January 27, 2012

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President has the better tax proposal

If Mitt Romney hoped that his 2010 tax return would draw less attention if he released it on the same day as President Obama's speech, he badly miscalculated. Obama didn't mention Romney in his speech, but he didn't have to.… 48

January 26, 2012

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Leave domestic violence laws alone

A lot has changed since 1993 when a New Hampshire judge, in sentencing a man to a 29-day jail sentence for savagely beating his wife, said that though the man might have been provoked, he "should have merely slapped her." New… 10

January 25, 2012

Redistricting plan destined for court

The Republican-dominated House remained true to its hyper-partisan nature last week and passed a redistricting plan that deserves a veto and is destined for court. Federal law requires that election district boundaries be redrawn every… 2

January 24, 2012