The Village Skeptic Blog
Manchester Tax Revaluation Calculator
The 2021 property revaluation in Manchester has dramatically altered the tax burden. This calculator will help Manchester residents estimate the impact on their tax bills. Instructions Go to the Vision Government Solutions website...
The Social Media Exodus Is a Bad Strategy
Big Tech censorship is real, it’s over the top, it’s unfair, and it’s unhealthy for the country. Conservatives, frustrated over censorship of their viewpoints, are attempting to organize a mass “exodus” from Facebook and Twitter to MeWe and Parler. While I’m sympathetic to this reaction, I have a problem with the strategy. It’s going to backfire.
MAKE SKEPTICISM GREAT AGAIN™
Faith is killing us. I don’t mean faith in God. I mean faith in demigods. For the purposes of this article, it doesn’t matter whether you believe in God or not. If you are a person of faith, then it’s sinful to worship false gods. If you’re an atheist, it’s...
What If This Distance Learning Experiment Works?
This article was featured 3/16/2020 in the Union Leader's opinion editorial section. In response to the recent COVID-19 threat, the NH Department of Education and Manchester School District are implementing distance learning contingencies. They will allow instruction...
Education Through the Golden Age Filter
I’m working on an article and accompanying video that asks the question, “Why isn’t public education getting cheaper?” The origin of the question comes from the observation that the digital age is causing the cost of acquiring information to go to zero. Yet, the costs...
How to Fix Public Education In Three Steps
This week, I had the pleasure of guest-hosting the Girard at Large television show with Ian Underwood. Ian is an education advocate who has a unique and persuasive take on education reform. Read This First...
Is Patreon the Beginning of the End of the Social Media Thought Police?
If you care about free speech and intellectual diversity but have not been following the Patreon controversy, you may want to start paying attention to it. This could be a turning point in the war for free speech against the social media cabal. And the strange thing...
Money Is Not the Problem for NH GOP
Nobody asked me what the NH GOP’s biggest problem is. And few, if any, will care what I have to say. But that’s OK because I’ve been through this before in another volunteer organization and I know how change works. More on that later. In this article, I’m going to...
Read moreIn Ward 6, Jon DiPietro wants to open up the school district to reform. He says lots of people have new ideas, but the challenge is “to find the second person to join in to give permission to the crowd to embrace change.” He points to success at Parker-Varney Elementary School as a model to replicate across the Queen City.
– New Hampshire Union Leader, October 25. 2017
How to Change the World In Your Spare Time
I'm speaking with a lot of people who are expressing apathy and helplessness. They're not voting in local elections because they feel like nothing ever changes. I totally understand that perspective but, at the same time, I don't accept it. So someone on Facebook...