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The Granite State News Collaborative and its partners have launched the Know Your Vote Youth Voter Guide Initiative. The project is being designed, reported and produced by student and young professional journalists from The Clock at Plymouth State University, the Concord Monitor, The Equinox at Keene State College, GSNC, The Laconia Daily Sun, the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, The New Hampshire at the University of New Hampshire and The Presidency and the Press program at Franklin Pierce University.
The goal of the guide is to help clarify the voting process as well as provide trusted, vetted, nonpartisan information on candidate positions. and issues most salient to young voters as they make their decisions this fall.
The articles are released on GSNC’s website, its local news partners, and social media.
We want this to be a reference for you during this election season.
Do you have any questions for candidates? Let us know by filling out our survey so that we can help get answers before Election Day!
NEW The State We’re In
Improving small-town life
How Radically Rural brings communities together to share ideas: The popular Radically Rural summit grew out of a desire to connect people who are passionate about small-town life with those who are pioneering interesting solutions to common problems. The summit — held every year in Keene — returns Sept. 24, with a new slate of sessions and solutions. Here to discuss what’s in store for this year's conference is Radically Rural Director Julianna Dodson.
Post-primary push
Anna Brown discusses the road to the November general election: The 2024 primary election in the Granite State is over, and candidates are now stumping for the November general election. On this episode of “The State We’re In,” Melanie Plenda discusses vetting candidates and the New Hampshire political scene with Anna Brown, director of Citizens Count, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization dedicated to educating voters about the political process.
New GSNC Stories
Youth Council
The legacy and impact of Nashua's The Youth Council: This is another installment in Nashua Nonprofit Spotlight Series! On June 30, The Youth Council of Nashua permanently closed its doors after 50 years of serving as a resource for school-aged minors, but other local organizations have stepped in to fill the gap.
EFA Audit
Audit of N.H. school voucher program to begin, but key information will be off limits: Sometime next spring, the public will get to see a performance audit of the N.H. Department of Education’s oversight of the Education Freedom Account program, which gives millions of tax dollars to eligible families to spend on private, parochial and home school expenses. But “most documents pertaining” to the program won’t be available to the auditors.