City budget directive to shake up process

January 22, 2009 Nashua Telegraph Nashua Mayor Donnalee Lozeau wants department heads to keep increases in spending to no more than 1 percent in the next city budget. What can she do for an encore? That’s one of the major questions facing Nashua Mayor Donnalee...

Taxpayer Revolt: Petition Seeks Massive Budget Cuts

Proposal draws fire from Claremont city officials CLAREMONT — Cynthia Coolidge Howard, along with 300 other Claremont residents, have petitioned city council and the mayor asking for deep cuts in the city budget and more citizen involvement in the process. At...

More on new fee for saltwater fishing

January 18, 2009 New Hampshire (partial text) We hate to keep banging on the subject of the proposal to license saltwater anglers, but some new and interesting ideas came from New Jersey’s Regional Fishing Alliance that have not been raised here in the Granite State....

NH considers discrimination of non-EZ Pass drivers

January 17, 2009 Newburyport News N.H. proposes ‘open tolling’ in Hampton HAMPTON, N.H. — A Sunday evening traffic jam at the Hampton tolls is as much a part of local summers as baseball and beach pizza. But as soon as next year, sitting in five miles of...

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...

You Spend, We Cap – Jackie Cilley (D) Barrington

by Ed Naile Senator Jackie Cilley, D-Barrington had this to say about taxes in NH: Senator Jackie Cilley says “the system raises moral questions since, of the 60 percent of state revenue derived from property taxes, low-income residents pay more than those on the high...