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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
Fremont implements ‘Follow the Child’
January 2, 2009 Seacoast Online FREMONT — The School Board and administration have begun the task of sorting out its strategic planning goals, as recommended by NESDEC (the New England School Development Council). The board met Dec. 16 in a work session to go over the...
These plans for tax hikes are just hot air
December 30, 2008 Union Leader With a budget crisis of extraordinary proportions, there's a strong whiff of taxes in the air. If we're not careful, we'll find ourselves downwind of the latest taxing rage: flatulence. For some reason, the ill wind of gaseous emissions...
Controversial saltwater fishermen registry delayed a year
December 30, 2008 Boston Globe Saltwater fishermen will have to get a license to fish starting in 2010. When the federal government announced last spring that recreational fishing in saltwater would require a license by 2009, Northeast fishermen vehemently protested....
New Hampshire Educational System Heads for Troubled Waters
N.H. plays key role in education overhaul report: 'significant and meaningful' proposals lauded by ed commissioner. Commissioner Lyonel B. Tracy says the ‘Tough Choices or Tough Times’ report ‘could very well be a prelude to rewriting the No Child Left Behind Act in...
Two Dems accused of NH’s budget woes
December 29, 2008 Seacoast Online How fierce will the political fight be over the state budget crisis? House Speaker Terie Norelli, D-Portsmouth, barely had announced her choices last week to chair the 22 House committees for the upcoming legislative session before a...
NH fishermen and captains taking it on the chin again
December 28, 2008 NH.com There hasn't been a hotter subject for Granite State fishermen in years than the proposed saltwater fishing license. Aside from NH Fish and Game’s seeing this as a chance to fill in the growing financial deficit it is facing because of...