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Can Information Technology Save Democracy in a Small Town?
How open data and simple digital tools could revive citizen power in Claremont and other small towns?
Nov 18
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Kevin Tyson
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The Public School Religion
Fairness as theology, funding as sacrament, and why New Hampshire’s students are still losing
Nov 16
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Kevin Tyson
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What’s the Difference Between the Mafia and the Claremont School Board?
How Claremont’s school board lost power - and what it reveals about who really rules.
Nov 13
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Kevin Tyson
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Field Guide to the Elites of Claremont
How elite turnover, not elections, shapes Claremont’s school and city power, and what to change before 2026
Nov 12
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Kevin Tyson
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Goodhart’s Law and Education Freedom Accounts in New Hampshire
Goodhart’s Law in the Granite State: How Metrics, Myths, and Money Distort the Fight over Education Freedom Accounts in New Hampshire
Nov 11
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Kevin Tyson
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Hayek, Forbidden Planet, and how AI could eat civilization
Central planning meets the Krell machine, and AI lights the fuse.
Nov 9
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Kevin Tyson
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Locke, Lenin, and Local Power: Claremont’s Test of Consent
Locke versus Lenin, tested in Claremont. When consent is only a ballot every two years, open meetings can still feel closed. Here are concrete fixes…
Nov 9
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Kevin Tyson
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Break the Cycle or Change the System
Accountability is done; either rebuild the governance engine to express the community’s will or route the funding to families.
Nov 7
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Kevin Tyson
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October 2025
Three Conservatives Walk Into A Bar
Three old ghosts—Herbert Spencer, Albert Jay Nock, and Barry Goldwater—materialize at the Crow Bar in Claremont and start asking the waitress questions…
Oct 30
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Kevin Tyson
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Procedures With Gravity: Michels’s Iron Law Meets Claremont
How agendas, expertise, and crisis routines concentrate power in SAU 6; and practical guardrails to pull it back.
Oct 5
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Kevin Tyson
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September 2025
The Sales-Tax Trap
How “broad base, low rate” becomes the on-ramp to an income tax in New Hampshire
Sep 19
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Kevin Tyson
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Transparency First, Then Reform
Claremont’s fix starts with sunlight, not another check.
Sep 14
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Kevin Tyson
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