Portsmouth School Committee Vice-chair Jonathan Harris followed up his earlier e-mail with another complaint about my coverage, which he asked me to run:

From: Jonathan Harris
Date: September 26, 2012 5:14:29 PM EDT
To: John McDaid

John,

Thank you for posting my email to you.
Hopefully, you will do the same with this one.

Since you call yourself a "reporter", I note that you have not reported on the new science text books that were purchased for K-8 students for the first time in years, the happy children who showed up to thank the committee for funding a new playground for them or the significant improvement in science test scores. All of the above occurred while you were attending the meeting last night and all are significant issues.

Have you turned a bit yellow in your journalistic endeavor or did you just forget to report the good stuff?

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As a matter of principle, I am obliged to note that journalists always make decisions about the most important events or actions at a meeting.

However, I hasten to add, I was at the meeting for a specific purpose: I was there as a parent, a citizen, and a volunteer appointed by the school committee to the tech subcommittee.

A subcommittee whose input was, in my opinion, being seriously misrepresented on an agenda item that could cost the residents of Portsmouth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In short, I was speaking to the school committee last night as a constituent.

And now we see how Mr. Harris deals with constituents who disagree. "Unacceptable." "Yellow."

Thank you for clarifying your feelings about any taxpayers of Portsmouth who dare to question you, Mr. Harris.