Importance of attending town and school meetings

January 15, 2009 Union Leader Taxes and Spending: Who has the money? It is public budget time in New Hampshire, and the grand question for aldermen, selectmen, council members, commissioners and legislators is whether to raise taxes or cut spending. And that raises...

Open Letter to Rep. Betsey Patten (R) Moltonborough

This is an open letter to Rep. Betsey Patten. I have just learned of a bill (HB-0072) that you authored requiring an increase by 1000% the number of voters at a town meeting needed to request a private vote on any particular article, making it virtually impossible for...

Court Rules Local Government Center to Open Books

NH Public Radio Archive of article by Dan Gorenstein Wednesday, January 14, 2009 The organization that runs the state Municipal Association – the Local Government Center- hasn’t decided if it will appeal Monday’s Superior Court decision. A judge has ruled the...

Bill Would Require Carbon Monoxide Detectors In New Homes (HB 120)

Fire Marshal Calls Detectors Easy, Inexpensive Way To Save Lives CONCORD, N.H. — Carbon monoxide detectors could be standard equipment in new and renovated homes in about a year under a bill proposed this year. The New Hampshire House is debating a bill that...

High-tech Marxism comes to America

January 13, 2009 by Bev Eakman NewsWithViews.com Deep down, most Americans once thought they were immune from blatant propaganda, government-sanctioned media-bias and psychiatric hospitals-cum-prisons — hallmarks of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich and Josef Stalin’s...

ICLEI and Portsmouth: But Was There a Vote?

Portsmouth Herald – City is a leader in green innovation City is a leader in green innovation Government and citizens work together Imagine seeing everything through a green lens. Nothing is conventionally built, or renovated, or installed, or fueled, or...