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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
Becoming A ‘No’ Voter
by Ed Naile You hear whispers of them at budget meetings, find references about them in testimony about Senate Bill 2, town managers talk about them in hushed tones, this time of year all the tax and spenders are worrying about... the “NO” voters. How can we get this...
It Takes a Village…
This post was originally written in 2003 but is every bit as applicable today, especially in light of the fact that at least three new Taj Mahal schools have been built despite proof of declining student enrollment in the State of NH. Our extremely popular, "It Takes...
Population up, school Enrollment down in N.H.
July 26, 2008 Seacoast Online Demographer says it's a good reason to worry PORTSMOUTH — A pair of local demographic experts weighed in on the causes behind numbers that suggest that even though New Hampshire's population is trending upwards, there are fewer school-age...
District Again Rebuffs Parents’ Calls for Info
From the Concord Monitor The parents of a severely disabled Deering boy say they will file a lawsuit against the Hillsboro-Deering School Board after it again refused to discuss a decision to put their son into the public school district. Ed Naile, chairman of the New...
School Board Urged to Find Some Balance
From the Concord Monitor Unity was the message residents delivered to the Hillsboro-Deering School Board at last night's meeting as board members began work to select a new member. Six candidates applied for the fifth spot on the board, which opened last month after...
Where did the state suddenly get money to study trains?
July 23, 2008 By Charles M. Arlinghaus FINDING A LITTLE extra money from the taxpayers to help out your friends is always more popular than cutting spending to balance the budget. It shouldn't surprise us that just weeks after the latest round of spending cuts, some...