Lunch Lady Land

September 25, 2009 by Steve MacDonald Edith Kelley embezzled $400,000 dollars from the school lunch program in Concord. According to an article in the Concord Monitor, Kelley had to have stolen an average of $300.00 to $400.00 dollars a day for seven years to...

Souter’s Blight

September 25, 2009 Associate Press Eminent domain land sits undeveloped Four years after the Kelo vs New London decision, Justice Souter’s vote to allow the city to take private property for development has been deemed a ‘hollow victory’. The area is...

How Cap and Tax Will Hurt NH

September 24, 2009 Americans for Tax Reform Both Congressman Paul Hodes and Congressman Carol Shea-Porter voted YES on the “Cap and Trade” legislation that is currently before the US Senate. This bill, better known as the Waxman-Markey bill, is also...

Party of the ‘rich’ scheming for broadbased tax

According to this article in the Union Leader, “A legislative committee studying an income tax bill was told yesterday it should consider a sales tax instead.” The hearing was intended to be a formal briefing by UNH Economics Professor Ross Gittell on HB...

John Stephen: Obamacare will blow a giant hole in NH’s budget

September 11, 2009 Union Leader “In the national discussion of health care reform, one critical area has been left out: the devastating repercussions the legislation being considered in Washington would have on state budgets across the country. For New...

Republicans call for state special session

September 3, 2009 Nashua Telegraph CONCORD – Republican legislative leaders called upon Gov. John Lynch to convene a special session to cut spending in a state budget embroiled in a $110 million court dispute and faced with lagging revenues over the past two months....