Quasi-Governmental Groups and Ethics

The NH Advantage is under attack. Sadly your own tax dollars are being used against you. Regional planning groups, state-created “commissions” (basically taxpayer-funded lobbyists created by Governors when they can’t get their bills passed normally)...

Taxpayer Group Letter to the Candidates

Dear Candidates for NH Senate and House: We’ll get to the bottom line right away but hope candidates and current legislators will read this in full to get yourselves up to speed. The bottom line: the issue of zoning being taken over by the Feds via AFFH (refers...

Save the NH Advantage

Will the House and Senate listen? Bad enough voters must keep an eye on their local government, they now must also keep an eye on the state, which seems to have spun out of control. It’s hard to know when these bills are coming up for full vote, HB 1629 and HB...

Is the Governor’s Plan Constitutional

Michael Kitch’s November 22, 2019 article in the NH Business Review; “Taking on NH’s housing ‘crisis’ – Task force’s recommendations ‘a long time coming’” praises the Governor’s new plan to manage housing in NH. The plan is not an...

NH’s Master Plans – Who Gets To Say What’s in Them?

“Most towns in NH have what is called a “Master Plan”. It is a sort of wish list or projection for what towns would like to see accomplished in the future. But it has become more than just a list of repair and improvement projects. Lately it is more...