Tag Archives: law

Putting NH's new alternative curricula law in context

Recently, my good buddy Jason Becker shared this arti­cle with me over here. An excerpt: New Hampshire’s Republican-dominated Leg­is­la­ture over­rode Demo­c­ra­tic Gov. John Lynch’s veto Wednes­day to enact a law let­ting par­ents request an alter­na­tive cur­ricu­lum for any sub­ject they object to, leg­is­la­tion that crit­ics say could limit children’s access to a com­pre­hen­sive and qual­ity edu­ca­tion. H.B. 542

retroactive legitimization of regulation

This NYT arti­cle caught my eye: New York’s Cab­bies Like Credit Cards? Go Fig­ure New York’s cab­bies howled when the city began forc­ing them to take credit cards. Some even went on strike, call­ing the require­ments a kow­tow to tourists and a bur­den on dri­vers. But two years later, the back-of-the-cab swipe has emerged as