After reading the recent editorial, “Why Did Formella Abandon His Principles”; Sept. 6) it is concerning that New Hampshire might be involved in some serious child abuse. The attorney general’s clawing back of Justice Broderick’s settlements with Youth Development Center victims shows how desperate the attempt is becoming to suppress any more details about the victims from emerging.
Could this decision be yet another in a series of insults hurled at our kids? In the last month we have seen reports about public schools taking out bank loans, deciding what books students can read, what gender they identify as, ignoring history by removing DEI from curricula, repeatedly voting against raising the nation’s lowest minimum wage and cutting tuition assistance to state college students, who graduate with the nation’s highest average student loan debt. Most recently the House is threatening to ignore the state Supreme Court’s recent estimate of what constitutes a minimum per student cost of an adequate education. The House is willing to fund a little over half of what the court estimates ($4,266 vs $7,356 ).
These “austerity” measures, mostly due to the elimination of the capital gains and dividend tax, are all contributing to a large population of New Hampshire children that are not being given a level playing field. Does anyone detect a bias here?
So much for the GOP’s claim to be the party of “family values.”