Obama, NH Democrats will hurt retired and elderly

March 21, 2009 Nashua Telegraph CONCORD – The House tax-writing committee endorsed new taxes on capital gains and estates to help support the next two-year state budget. “They were recommended because they were needed for the budget,” said state Rep. Susan...

Sunshine Week focuses on open records

This is National Sunshine Week. In the following piece, the repeal of the secrecy laws that kept government records out of the public eye for so long, is championed by the Executive Director of Pennsylvania’s new Office of Open Records. He is charged with making...

Seacoast Online defends voter guide

We were pleased to see that in today’s March 17 edition of SeacoastOnline.com the paper defended the right of everyone’s freedom of speech. In an unsigned op-ed, they assured the residents of Hampton that it is perfectly OK for CNHT or anyone else to...

CNHT voter guide determines outcome

March 13, 2009 Hampton votes The ‘yellow sheet’ predicts outcome “I don’t think there is any question that there is credibility with the yellow sheet voter guide right now,” Selectman Richard Nichols said. “If you look at the sheet...

It’s Official – SB2 No Different Than Town Meeting

Atty David Connell from the Local Government Center (former NH Municipal Association) was at the a forum recently held in Meredith, NH on 3/3/2009. The paragraph below is an excerpt of the article printed in the Laconia Daily Sun on 3/4/2009, page 8, about the...

View Tax is Subjective, Unfair

This piece is reprinted with permission from the author. It was also printed in Foster’s. Like most people, I have an aversion to injustice. Here in the “Live Free or Die” state of New Hampshire, a glaring example of injustice is the levying of an odious view...