Lawsuit Seeks to Halt Raises for Grafton Officials

Valley News North Haverhill — Two Grafton residents challenging the legality of a key meeting that led to approval of a new $38 million Grafton County jail are now contesting a May vote held in Concord where county delegates approved pay raises for four elected...

FBI Arrests Former Selectman

“WINDHAM, N.H. — A former state representative was arrested Wednesday after he failed to appear for a court date tied to his indictment in the assault of an election worker on Election Day 2005. Read more… Lowell Sun Christopher Doyle, 30, was...

Let us hope we never become like Maine

October 9, 2008 Waldo County Opinions Maine’s income tax rate killing the economy AUGUSTA (Oct 9): In August, Gov. John Baldacci pleasantly surprised us when he announced that reducing Maine’s income tax rates would be a top priority of his last two years in office....

Judge: State violated Right-to-Know Law in ATV park case

October 7, 2008 Nashua Telegraph A citizen’s dogged pursuit of information being withheld by a state agency was recently justified when a judge ruled that state officials knowingly violated the Right-to-Know Law. Records related to the state purchase of land for...

Shaheen supports loss of voting rights

October 7, 2008 Union Leader In New Hampshire politics, there are artful dodgers, and then there is Jeanne Shaheen, who is in a class by herself. For months, Shaheen has been going to extraordinary lengths to avoid answering questions about nuclear power, drilling for...

Company Saves Smokers From Tax Increase

From the Union Leader (partial article) SMOKEY SNAFU: The tobacco tax wasn’t supposed to be this messy. It was supposed to go up a quarter this year and raise between $18 million and $23 million. But then lawmakers tried a clever way of keeping grocers happy....