The State Ledger

New Hampshire policy, followed through to the outcome.

Corrections

What we have not verified yet

A publication that only tells you what it is sure of is hiding half the picture. This page lists what is outstanding.

Reporting an error

Email aaron.gomo@gmail.com with the page and the specific claim. Corrections that change a finding are noted on the analysis itself with the date, not made silently. Every page carries a published date and, where it has been changed, an updated date.

Currently in review

Nothing is currently held for verification.

Known issues in the archive

Two figures published in different State Ledger graphics do not currently reconcile, and both are flagged here rather than quietly dropped:

  • Claremont property value per student.Your House Got Richergives $423,000 in equalized property wealth per pupil, while Why Spending Alone Doesn't Explain School Taxesgives $0.87 million in equalized value per student for 2023-24. These may be different measures or different years; until that is established, neither figure should be quoted as the other.
  • The HB 197 vote — resolved, and one graphic is wrong.The General Court's published record shows House roll call 30 of January 7, 2026 on a motion of Inexpedient to Legislate, adopted 172-159, with Representative Drye voting Yea — in favour of the motion that killed the bill.Margaret Drye, What's the Taxpayer ROI? labels this correctly as a YEA to kill. A second graphic, a Sullivan County accountability scorecard, labelled the same vote "DRYE VOTED: NO" — the right effect, the wrong vote. That scorecard has been withdrawn and is not published; it will not return without the label corrected and all eight of its votes checked against the record.

Graphics carry an old address

Several published graphics were made before this site moved to state-ledger.org and show an earlier address in their footer. They are accurate in substance; the link on the image is stale. New graphics carry the current address.

Resolved: the SB 295 votes

The Taxpayer ROI comparison described Drye as having "voted with majority as universal EFA legislation advanced". The House took six roll calls on SB 295, so that phrase has now been pinned to specific votes: on June 5, 2025 she voted Yea on Ought to Pass with Amendment, which passed the bill 190-178, and Nayon the motion to reconsider it, which failed 171-198. Both are cited onthe analysis, which is now published rather than in review.

The withdrawn scorecard rated eight votes, of which two have now been read from the record and six have not. It stays withdrawn until they are and until its HB 197 label is corrected.

Standing limits

Some claims cannot be verified from the public record at all, because the record does not exist. Where that is the case the analysis says so rather than estimating — the Education Freedom Account investigation is largely an account of exactly that gap.