Here are the top stories at 7:30 a.m.:
A special legislative commission has begun putting a rough price to New Hampshire’s share of public school costs; Campaign finance reform will be one of the Vermont Legislature’s first tasks in the session that opens today; with Vermont’s primary still a distant two months off, many Vermonters have been exercising their electoral enthusiasm in New Hampshire; and the Vermont State Police say they have identified many of the people believed to be responsible for trashing the historic farmhouse where poet Robert Frost once lived.