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Flotsam & Jetsam

Isn't liquor the state beverage?

Here's a thought: In the next legislative session, a rep or senator with even a semblance of guts should sponsor a bill banning the use of the legislative process as a laboratory for elementary school students to study how a bill becomes law.

While it's obviously essential for students to understand how their government works, in the last four years we've seen lawmakers forced to posture on the life-or-death matter of whether to make the pumpkin New Hampshire's official fruit (of course, after a crucial hearing during which it had to be proved that pumpkins are indeed a fruit) and then earlier this year our underworked lawmakers were compelled to name the Chinook the official state dog.

Now along comes a group of Jaffrey grade school students who want legislators to vote on making apple cider the official state beverage. Why?

";Our class was wondering if N.H. could have a state drink   Read Full Article...