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“Our taxes don’t go to public schools, our money doesn’t pay for the roads here; we do not truly consider ourselves Grafton County-ites. When people ask where you go to school, you say Dartmouth. You never say you’re from Hanover, but some far-off place you call “home.” And by voting for one of our carpet-bagging compatriots, we’ve done Grafton a great disservice.” ~ Zachary Gottlieb, Dartmouth College Newspaper on the election of a non-resident to the office of Grafton County Treasurer
NH Climate Task Force Would Trample Individual Rights
Residents of New Hampshire could soon have their ability to choose how they live, how they travel and what they buy taken away from them. The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES) is currently considering a large basket of costly new taxes,...
Somersworth considers new school, bonding explained
August 20, 2008 Fosters SOMERSWORTH — City officials have three options in bonding for the new elementary school, if they choose to move forward with that plan. Recently, Sheila St. Germain, executive director of the New Hampshire Municipal Bond Bank, spoke to the...
City Council: Eminent domain OK, but shrink middle school plan
August 18, 2008 Fosters PORTSMOUTH — The City Council voted to move forward with the eminent domain process Monday night, but very clearly stated the size and cost of a new middle school must come down. The issue of whether to use eminent domain to expand Portsmouth...
Homeschoolers Threaten Our Cultural Comfort
August 18, 2008 Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal You see them at the grocery, or in a discount store. It's a big family by today's standards - "just like stair steps," as the old folks say. Freshly scrubbed boys with neatly trimmed hair and girls with braids, in...
Drill Here, Drill Now, Vote Smart
August 13, 2008 by Ed Naile I received an email recently from the American Petroleum Institute (apparently they read this blog) regarding New Hampshire voters opinions regarding access to domestic oil and gas reserves – as in, are ya fer or agin drill’n fer the oil we...
No summer break for many lawmakers
August 11, 2008 Eagle Tribune CONCORD — The legislative session ended a month and a half ago, but some lawmakers are still putting in hours at the State House. While in theory, lawmakers, who receive an annual salary of $100, are supposed to get the month of July off,...