Where is Jesse Burchfield?

by Ed Naile That was the very popular 4 foot banner we had printed up for our Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers Cookout last Saturday. There it was up on the wall with all our “poster trophies” from political battles past. We had the Dartmouth Review...

We Hope Mr. Souter Has The Constitution For This

by Ed Naile Good old RSA 39:3 – 25 signatures and your citizens petitioned warrant article trots off to the selectmen for inclusion in the annual warrant. Don’t you love Town Meetings! I would say we have met that hurdle in the case of creating a “Constitution...

Compelled Speech Crops Up Again

by Ed Naile In Epping, Tom Sutliffe, a taxpayer, brought a case against both the Board of Selectmen and School Board for asking voters to vote for their budgets in materials paid for by the taxpayers. This is known as “compelled speech” and is unconstitutional. Tom...

Wait! That’s Mommy’s House!

by Ed Naile Thought you would like to know about a little project CNHT has been working on since last week. We are all smart people here so I will cut to the chase. It is a warrant article and goes like this: We the undersigned voters of the Town of Weare petition the...

Dominium Eminens

by Ed Naile Dominium Eminens is Latin for “supreme lordship” and was adopted as a legal term back the 1600’s when most people still had kings for rulers. Evidently we have some judges on our US Supreme Court who think they have been born with, or have...

Buddy Can You Spare A Beach House?

by Ed Naile Let’s say I have a “friend” who is a vinyl siding contractor. My friend gets a great job siding a house on the beach owned by an elderly lady whom he befriends. My buddy finishes the vinyl siding job which got pretty complicated during the process and he...