Council reaches tentative agreement with Lombardo for city manager

April 27, 2008 Hawk Central Press-Citizen (Paul Beecher went from City Manager in Kansas, to Dover NH, to Kingman AZ, where he was fired in 2007. Iowa City did not ask him back for a second interview.) The Iowa City City Council announced today that it has reached a...

Obama’s Real Bill Ayers Problem

City Journal Barack Obama complains that he’s been unfairly attacked for a casual political and social relationship with his neighbor, former Weatherman Bill Ayers. Obama has a point. In the ultraliberal Hyde Park community where the presidential candidate first...

City names candidates

April 19, 2008 Iowa City Press-Citizen (Paul Beecher, former City Manager of Dover NH, gives his excuses for the controversy surrounding his tenure here in NH as well as his firing from Arizona.) Two Iowans, a Michigan resident and an Arizona resident make up a fresh...

The Saga of Keith Hickey

Merrimack Stuck Their Neck Out And Now They Have A Hickey On It by Ed Naile, Chair A few years back the Town of Merrimack fell victim to the glittering dream that a Town Charter form of government under RSA 49 was the answer to their overspending woes. With one simple...

State Orders Audit of Windsor’s Town Books

WINDSOR – The New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration has ordered the town of Windsor to hire an accountant to perform a full audit of the town’s books. For the past year, members of the Windsor Coalition of Taxpayers has been pushing for a review of...