Mar 21, 2009
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...
Mar 9, 2009
Updated for 2009 It’s that time again. People all over NH will be getting ready for town meetings. The town meeting is the esteemed NH institution where residents can exercise control of how their property tax dollars are spent for both town and school, by means...
Feb 22, 2009
Update: HB 1611 was heard by the House Ways and Means Committee who determined that this bill was ITL 17-2. by Steve MacDonald Coming to a committee hearing near you, HB 1611 (click for full text) would create a new chapter in New Hampshire called 77-F:1 which would...
Jan 30, 2009
January 30, 2009 by Pam Ean In the Jan. 18 Sunday Monitor, Jessie Osborne laid out a proposal for financing public schools and state government (“In taxing times, two proposals to raise some revenue”). That yet another Concord state representative has...
Jan 29, 2009
January 2009 HB 628 is one of the most sweeping, intrusive, and DANGEROUS bills to hit the legislature this session. Please read the bill text here: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/HB0628.html From the bill’s own summary: “This bill...
Dec 17, 2008
December 17, 2008 Nashua Telegraph If it’s true that the country tends to follow New Hampshire’s lead – which is the whole idea of our presidential primary, after all – then today’s auction of the right to send 1.2 million tons of carbon into the air...