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This is the register kept under the corrections policy. Each entry names the piece, the date it published, what was wrong, what is right, how the error was found, and the date the fix went up. The same note also sits at the top of the corrected article itself. This page exists so all of them can be read in one place.
What is listed here
Every correction that changes a fact a story stands on, under the test in the corrections policy: an error in the headline, dek, lede, or fact-check table; in a citation to a statute, rule, court decision, or bill; in a vote, figure, date, or quotation the story’s argument uses; or in a statement about what a named person, a public body, or Granite State Report itself did, said, or decided. A close call is listed.
Not listed here: clarifications, which sharpen accurate language that could be misread; updates, which add a development to a story that was correct when published; and corrections to a detail the story does not rest on. Each of those still carries a note at the top of the article. Typos, grammar, formatting, broken links, and layout fixes get no note, because fixing them changes nothing a reader relied on. Entries listed before October 16, 2026, when this test was set, stay on the register.
How entries are written
Newest entries go at the top. A row is never deleted and never edited after it publishes. If a correction turns out to be wrong itself, a new row corrects it and the original row stays where it is. Each row carries the date of the fix, never an earlier one. The original publication date of the article does not change.
2026
| Corrected | Piece | Type | What was wrong / what is right | How it was found |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 15, 2026 | Live Free and Pay Nothing? The Paradox at the Heart of New Hampshire’s Tax System Published February 10, 2026 |
Correction | An earlier version said that in 2025 property tax rates “ranged from $5.39 per $1,000 of assessed value in New Castle to $25.17 in Brentwood.” The $5.39 figure is New Castle’s 2024 rate; the town’s 2025 annual report gives the Department of Revenue Administration’s director-approved final rate as $5.73 for 2025 and $5.39 for 2024. The sentence also presented those two towns as the statewide low and high. It no longer makes a statewide claim, the Brentwood figure is removed, and the passage now notes that Lebanon’s correct 2025 rate of $21.53 was set after a citywide revaluation that raised total assessed value about 28 percent. The Manchester figure in the same sentence was corrected on October 14. | Editor review of the archive (fact check against New Castle’s 2025 annual town report and the Valley News account of Lebanon’s 2025 rate) |
| October 14, 2026 | Follow the Money: Power, Influence, and Accountability in New Hampshire Published January 12, 2026 |
Correction | An earlier version said the House “voted 195-183 to send the bill back to the Judiciary Committee,” and the September 22, 2026 note on the article repeated it. The 195-183 vote on February 8, 2024 was the motion to reconsider House Bill 1002. The New Hampshire Bulletin reported that the reconsideration vote “passed, 195-183,” that Rep. J.R. Hoell’s motion to table “failed, 126-254,” and that “on a voice vote, the House agreed instead to return the bill to the House Judiciary Committee.” The bill’s docket records the recommit as a voice vote. The passage now gives all three motions. The September 22 note stands as published; this entry corrects it. | Editor review of the archive (fact check against the New Hampshire Bulletin’s February 8, 2024 account and the HB 1002 docket) |
| October 14, 2026 | The New Hampshire Squeeze: Why Working Families Are Falling Behind in a “Low-Tax” State Published November 23, 2025 |
Correction | An earlier version said a renter needed “156% of the statewide median renter income” to afford the typical two-bedroom apartment with utilities. That figure is printed on the statewide line of New Hampshire Housing’s 2024 Residential Rental Cost Survey Report, but it does not match the report’s own dollars: $73,300 in income needed, divided by the $56,814 median renter income, is about 129%. The 156% matches Sullivan County’s row of the same report, not the state’s. The sentence now gives about 129% and names the figure the report prints. No other figure in the column changed. | Editor review of the archive after the same figure was corrected in a separate article on October 11, 2026 (fact check against New Hampshire Housing’s 2024 Residential Rental Cost Survey Report) |
| October 14, 2026 | Explainer: What Is New Hampshire’s “Adequacy Formula”? Published November 20, 2025 |
Correction | An earlier version said the department of education raises the $4,100 base per-pupil cost in RSA 198:40-a by 2 percent a year “beginning July 1, 2026,” and the September 22, 2026 note on the article carried the same date. RSA 198:40-d as effective until July 1, 2026 reads “Beginning July 1, 2024 and every year thereafter” and applies “an increase of 2 percent annually.” The version effective July 1, 2026 keeps the 2 percent adjustment and adds that it is “rounded up to the nearest whole dollar.” The passage now dates the adjustment to July 1, 2024 and says what changed in 2026. The September 22 note stands as published; this entry corrects it. | Editor review of the archive (fact check against both versions of RSA 198:40-d at gc.nh.gov) |
| October 14, 2026 | UNDER THE DOME: Follow the Bills — What Passed in 2025, What Stalled, and What’s Next Published October 24, 2025 |
Correction | An earlier version twice identified the 2026 bill that answered the ConVal ruling as HB 1534. The bill was HB 1815, “AN ACT relative to education financing,” which Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed March 27, 2026 as Chapter 19, effective May 26, 2026. HB 1534 of the 2026 session was a different bill, “AN ACT relative to utility default service,” which the House voted inexpedient to legislate on March 5, 2026. Both references now give HB 1815 with its signing date and chapter number. | Editor review of the archive (fact check against the 2026 session records for HB 1815 and HB 1534) |
| October 10, 2026 | Make Other People Come to You Published September 13, 2026 |
Correction | An earlier version said committees “no longer have to give public notice before voting on bills in executive session” and that a chair could schedule the vote “without telling anyone in advance.” Notice is still required: House Rule 44(b) requires executive sessions to be advertised in the House Calendar no less than two days prior to committee action, or announced on the floor by the committee chairman, and Rule 103 requires the same two days’ notice for any executive session taking a recorded vote. What the House changed on January 8, 2025 was the precision of the notice, not its existence: a floor amendment dropped the requirement that an executive session be set for a fixed date and time, so a committee may notice that one may be held at any point on a day it is meeting. The passage, the statute box, fact-check row 7, the closing advice and the source list were corrected. | Editor review of the archive while reporting Part Nine of the same series (fact check against the House Rules as of December 17, 2025 at gc.nh.gov, and InDepthNH’s January 8, 2025 account of Convening Day) |
| October 5, 2026 | Your November Ballot Says the School Tax Cap Won’t Touch Classrooms. The Law Says Otherwise. Published July 20, 2026 |
Correction | An earlier version, in its September 22 update and its closing paragraph, said a Merrimack County Superior Court judge dismissed the lawsuit challenging the school tax cap ballot question on September 16, 2026. The judge denied the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction; the order did not dismiss the case. The update and the closing paragraph were corrected. | Automated post-publication check during follow-up reporting, October 5, 2026 (fact check against the Merrimack County Superior Court order of September 16, 2026) |
| October 5, 2026 | What WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden Exposed, and What It Changed Published October 5, 2026 |
Correction | An earlier version said Judge Richard Leon’s December 2013 order on the NSA phone-records program was reversed in 2015. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated the order on August 28, 2015 and sent the case back to the district court. The program table and fact-check row 8 were corrected. | Automated post-publication check, October 5, 2026 (fact check against the D.C. Circuit’s opinion in Obama v. Klayman, 800 F.3d 559) |
| October 5, 2026 | GSR Tools Published September 29, 2026 |
Correction | An earlier version said the request builder skips the legal holidays listed in RSA 288:1, “computed from that section’s own rules.” RSA 288:1 gives no date for two of its eleven holidays, the biennial election day and Thanksgiving; the builder takes those dates from RSA 653:7 and 5 U.S.C. § 6103. The builder also did not apply RSA 288:2, under which a listed holiday that falls on a Sunday is observed the following day, so a deadline counted across such a Monday came out one business day early. The deadline section and the builder were corrected. | Automated site audit, October 4, 2026 (fact check against the statute text at gc.nh.gov) |
| October 5, 2026 | How to Participate in Democracy A Practical Guide Published September 22, 2025 |
Correction | An earlier version said the New Hampshire General Court website lets readers look up state and federal contacts. That site covers the state Legislature only. The same version, and its September 19 correction note, gave the CDU/CSU share of Germany’s 2025 vote as 28.6 percent; the Federal Returning Officer’s final vote counts work out to 28.5 percent. Both passages were corrected. | Automated site audit, October 4, 2026 (fact check against gc.nh.gov and the Federal Returning Officer’s final result) |
| October 5, 2026 | How to Research Political Candidates Like a Pro Published September 18, 2025 |
Correction | An earlier version said Congress.gov gives the complete voting history for every member of the House and Senate. It carries recorded floor votes going back to the 101st Congress (1989-90) for the Senate and to 1990 for the House. The same version described small individual contributions as donations under $200; under Federal Election Commission rules the line is $200 or less in total from one donor in an election cycle. Both passages were corrected. | Automated site audit, October 4, 2026 (fact check against senate.gov and fec.gov) |
| October 5, 2026 | Why Nursing Schools Create The Shortage They’re Meant To Solve Published September 29, 2025 |
Correction | An earlier version, and its September 19 correction note, said the program’s federal grant runs through June 2028. The grant’s period of performance ends May 31, 2028. The sentence was corrected. | Automated site audit, October 4, 2026 (fact check against the U.S. Department of Labor’s grant descriptions and the award record on USAspending.gov) |
| October 5, 2026 | ER Mental-Health Boarding Crisis: Why New Hampshire Patients Wait Days for Beds Published November 15, 2025 |
Correction | An earlier version said a federal judge ruled in February 2023 that emergency-room boarding violated patients’ rights as well as hospitals’ property rights, and quoted the ruling as calling the practice an illegal “commandeering.” The order of February 23, 2023 decided the hospitals’ claim: it declared a violation of the hospitals’ Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizures of their emergency departments, and its wording is that the practice “commandeers space, staff, and resources.” It did not rule on the patients’ own claims. Two passages were corrected. | Automated site audit, October 4, 2026 (fact check against the court’s order at govinfo.gov) |
| October 5, 2026 | Insanity and the Law: A Dark Reality in New Hampshire Published May 28, 2026 |
Correction | An earlier version said civilly committed patients receive less constitutional protection than convicted prisoners. Youngberg v. Romeo says people who have been involuntarily committed “are entitled to more considerate treatment and conditions of confinement than criminals.” The same version said four states “simply abolished the defense outright”; those states ended insanity as a separate defense but let a defendant use mental illness to contest intent. Both passages were corrected. | Automated site audit, October 4, 2026 (fact check against the opinions in Youngberg v. Romeo and Kahler v. Kansas) |
| September 22, 2026 | Liable Is Not Guilty: The Difference Between a Civil and a Criminal Case in New Hampshire Published September 16, 2026 |
Correction | An earlier version said the mistrial in the Buskey case was declared on September 16, 2026. Judge William Delker declared it on Tuesday, September 15, 2026; September 16 is the date of the InDepthNH report the article cited. The lede and fact-check row 4 were corrected. | Editor review of the archive (automated fact check against the Associated Press report of September 15, 2026) |
| September 22, 2026 | New Hampshire Will Sell You a Record. It Will Never Build You an Index. Published September 17, 2026 |
Correction | An earlier version of fact-check row 15 said the word “accredited” appears twice in RSA 106-F:5, VII(a)(2). It appears once in RSA 106-F:5, at VII(d)(2), and once in RSA 106-F:8, II, in addition to RSA 106-F:4, VIII. The same version said the state had left the word undefined for as long as the chapter has existed; the word entered the chapter on January 1, 2011 under 2010 Laws chapter 292. | Editor review of the archive (automated fact check against the statute text at gc.nh.gov) |
| September 22, 2026 | The Attorney General’s Right-to-Know Manual Leaves Out the Part Where You Get the Records Published September 16, 2026 |
Correction | An earlier version said the memorandum states the sealed-minutes review requirement correctly on page 33. The passage is on printed page 35, Section V.E, subsection (c)(3) and (4). The sentence, fact-check row 25, and its source line were corrected. | Editor review of the archive (automated fact check against the memorandum PDF) |
| September 22, 2026 | One Word in New Hampshire’s Private Investigator Law Decides Who Counts as Press. Nobody Has Defined It. Published September 16, 2026 |
Correction | An earlier version said the 2019 rewrite of RSA 106-F introduced the “accredited news publication” carve-out, that the chapter it replaced did not mention the press, and that the word had gone undefined for seven years. Chapter 292 of the Laws of 2010 (HB 651-FN, approved July 13, 2010, effective January 1, 2011) added the carve-out to RSA 106-F:2 as paragraph VIII in the words the chapter carries today; the 2019 act moved it to RSA 106-F:4, VIII without changing it. The section “Where the word came from,” three later passages, and fact-check row 6 were corrected. | Editor review of the archive (automated fact check against the chaptered 2010 law at gc.nh.gov) |
| September 17, 2026 | Commission an Investigation Published August 3, 2026 |
Correction | An earlier version gave the newsroom phone number as 603-931-6294, a transposition. The Granite State Report number is (603) 931-9264. The wrong number appeared on the page from September 4, 2026 until the fix. | Editor review of the archive |
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