Company Saves Smokers From Tax Increase

From the Union Leader (partial article) SMOKEY SNAFU: The tobacco tax wasn’t supposed to be this messy. It was supposed to go up a quarter this year and raise between $18 million and $23 million. But then lawmakers tried a clever way of keeping grocers happy....

Planned Parenthood in NH Funded by Your Tax Dollars

From the Nashua Telegraph Democrats get push from Planned Parenthood Democratic candidates at the local and national level were getting a boost in Nashua on Saturday thanks to a team of pink-clad volunteers committed to women’s health. Cecile Richards, president...

Shaheen’s Leadership Nowhere to be Found

From the Union Leader Note: CNHT does not endorse candidates but will point out which candidates are friends or foes of the taxpayer. It is amusing that many of the same people who angrily shout insults in the direction of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, dismissing her as...

Push Polling is Illegal

Fosters ROCHESTER — Members of the Rochester Concerned Taxpayers Association claim an out-of-state company engaged in a smear campaign against the tax cap proposal on the Nov. 4 ballot. Push polling — the tactic in question, which entails pollsters using the guise of...

Meredith Town Manager Resigns

Meredith’s town manager will resign effective this week in a split that both she and the Board of Selectmen say is mutual. On Tuesday, Town Manager Carol Granfield and the Meredith Board of Selectmen jointly announced Granfield’s resignation effective Oct....

The Windsor Circus Continues

by Ed Naile I have to admit I almost feel a tiny bit of empathy for the hapless Windsor Selectmen who have asked the Hillsboro Superior Court to give them an opportunity for a Special Meeting to immediately raise enough money to pay the NH State Police for patrolling...