Elizabeth Dinan reports on the Portsmouth Herald on the New Hampshire Supreme Court tackling one of the toughest questions facing the state; how high can you hang a lighted hotel sign.

The Court is hearing a dispute between neighboring Portsmouth hotels over whether the local Zoning Board improperly granted a variance for the Residence Inn to put an illuminated sign on the side of its building 50 feet off the ground. The Sheraton across the street says the code bans illuminated signs more than 20 feet up, and that the Residence Inn hasn’t earned a variance. Dinan reports on the minutia that the Court will have to parse.

It’s Little Village Elementary School Principal Elsa Carbona, who has banned kids from bringing in their own lunches, because she doesn’t think they’ll eat healthily enough.

Host Grant Bosse looks at a bill to allow the sale of flags and flowers by street vendors, reforms to New Hampshire’s automatic parole law, and the fight over amnesty for illegal…parrots with Rep. Jenna Roberts.

The Union Leader hopes that the Nanny State doesn’t make it to New Hampshire ski slopes.

A hattip to Charlie Arlinghaus, who pointed out on of the most short-sighted examples of bureaucratic meddling, this time in Maine. It seems that Shaw’s wanted to entice repeat customers with free milk, but the nanny-state busy bodies in Augusta decided that Maine consumers aren’t paying enough.

Grant Bosse talks about an embarrassing stimulus project in his hometown of Hillsboro; a bridge that doesn’t go anywhere. Also, should the state require permits for putting a floating raft in a lake?

Listen to the NH Watchdog on WGIR podcast.

The Union Leader examines bicycle helmet mandates, and finds that they aren’t nearly as effective as supporters claim.

The Concord Monitor backs new state regulations to combat the creeping scourge of a new invasive species on New Hampshire lakes; inflatable rafts.

Foster’s Daily Democrat uses an editorial to link Senator Rick Santorum’s recent visit to New Hampshire and yesterday’s story on a possible lawsuit against Happy Meals.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, which is interested in neither science nor the public interest, is once again stepping in to protect children from the choices their parents make. The group says that the cheap plastic toys that come with a Happy Meal are tempting other-wise healthy children to gorge themselves on cheeseburgers and chicken nuggets.

Jason Claffey reports on this latest abuse of the court system to tell you how to raise your children for Foster’s Daily Democrat.