By Dana Wormald | Editor
Good morning, New Hampshire, and welcome to Friday. Today, Molly Rains looks at New Hampshire’s long-running political tug of war between daylight saving time and standard time. In the Friday commentary, immigration law expert Richard T. Herman explains why the birthright citizenship battle playing out in New Hampshire is so pivotal. And, from States Newsroom’s Shauneen Miranda, the Trump administration targets a trio of states over in-state tuition for immigrants. Thank you for reading, and have a great weekend. — Dana
The sun sets behind Mount Cardigan on a late fall afternoon. The question of how to distribute the limited sunlight that falls on New Hampshire in the winter months is the subject of a long-running debate that has recently reemerged nationally. (Photo by Molly Rains/New Hampshire Bulletin)
By Molly Rains
In his attempts to rally his fellow legislators around the idea of abolishing daylight time, Rep. Timothy Horrigan of Durham has emphasized a range of benefits he said New Hampshire would experience from such a change. Periodically shifting the schedule of our days by an hour, he says, is disruptive to people’s internal clocks and their overall health; ending the practice would alleviate that. New Hampshire has also seen pushes in the other direction. Former Rep. Josh Yokela proposed a permanent shift to Atlantic Standard Time, which would in effect make daylight time permanent, in 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2024. Each measure was ultimately defeated or sent for interim study. Now, with Congress taking up the issue, the great time debate has begun again in earnest.
The U.S. District Court, District of New Hampshire, Aug. 27, 2025. (Photo by Ethan DeWitt/New Hampshire Bulletin)
COMMENTARY
By Richard T. Herman
“Presidents frequently respond to court decisions by changing policies. Sometimes a court identifies a defect and the executive branch legitimately repairs it. Sometimes a narrower rule truly does comply with the court’s reasoning. But there is also a point at which repeated executive efforts to approach the same constitutional boundary raise a larger question: Who gets the final word about what the Constitution means?”
By Shauneen Miranda
The U.S. Department of Justice has sued New York, Connecticut, and Vermont over laws that allow immigrants in the country without permanent legal status to pay in-state college tuition in the states where they live.
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