By Dana Wormald | Editor
Good morning, New Hampshire, and welcome to Tuesday. Today, William Skipworth reports on newly released recommendations for reforming the state’s disability care system. In the Tuesday commentary, youth advocates Sonjia Tainter, Tricia Brannen, Stacy Neville, Leigh Ann Reynolds, and Alisha Langill make the case for giving young people in New Hampshire more reasons to look away from their screens. And, from Stateline’s Kevin Hardy, why housing wholesalers are spurring states to take a closer look at oversight of the industry. Thank you for reading, and enjoy the day. — Dana
Gina Cannon (left), a member of the System Review Committee, expounds on her thoughts about the committee’s recommendations as the panel works to finalize them. Cannon also serves on the New Hampshire Autism Council and has autism spectrum disorder herself. At right is Karen Hatch, another committee member and the mother of someone with disabilities. (Photo by William Skipworth/New Hampshire Bulletin)
By William Skipworth
A group of New Hampshire disability rights advocates, families and care agency professionals want to see reform in the state’s disability care system. New Hampshire’s System Review Committee, which has been holding regular meetings since January, finalized its recommendations for systemic reform Thursday. Stephanie Patrick, co-chair of the committee and executive director of the Disability Rights Center-New Hampshire, said they “want a system that involves all the different pieces of DHHS, all the different people who have a stake in the system, which includes providers, service coordinators, families, to understand where we are now and where we need to be, and commit to making those changes, even if they’re difficult.”
"According to the 2025 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 82.6% of New Hampshire high school students reported using social media several times a day, while 75.1% reported spending three or more hours a day on recreational screen time outside of schoolwork." (Getty Images)
COMMENTARY
By Sonjia Tainter, Tricia Brannen, Stacy Neville, Leigh Ann Reynolds, and Alisha Langill
“For years, conversations about young people and social media have focused largely on what we want kids to do less of: less scrolling, less screen time, fewer harmful online experiences. Those conversations matter, but they leave out another question that is just as important: What are we giving young people to connect to when they put the phone down?”
By Kevin Hardy
A growing number of state lawmakers worry that buyers don’t fully understand the wholesaling process or even who will end up owning their home at the end of the sale. Lawmakers and regulators, backed by organized real estate trade groups and consumer advocacy organizations, are pushing for more limits on the practice. At least 15 states have recently approved new regulations of wholesalers.
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