How Progressives Sell New Taxes

This website is very interesting. It is a must read because it shows how to compromise the language to get taxpayers to accept more and more taxation as something positive. Rock Ridge Institute Words such as ‘fair’, ‘patriotic’,...

NH Board of Tax and Land Appeals Makes Unprecedented Decision

by Eugene T. Reed Public Member – Assessing Standards Board Many Selectmen refuse to take an active role in determining the merits of a taxpayer’s abatement application. Some rely exclusively upon the “recommendations” of contract assessors. Many municipalities are...

Keene’s 34 West: When Government Doesn’t Listen

Voters in Keene have clearly instructed the city to sell property at 34 West Street. However, this property is still in the hands of the school district AND they are “giving away” the rent for $1 a year because they think they “hurt the...

Below the Radar: Brain Drain at DRA

by Eugene Reed The Property Appraisal division of the State of New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration will have lost the top 3 members of their management staff by the end of this month. First the departure of the Assistant Director, then the Director, and...

A Sing Along

They Do Bond Bond (Spector-Greenwich-Barry-Naile – Copyright 2008) There was a special session and they locked them in They do bond bond bond, they do bond bond The red ink’s a come’n and now we have to spin They do bond bond bond, they do bond bond Yeah,...

Court invalidates NH sheriff election

June 14, 2008 WBZ TV CONCORD, N.H. (AP) New Hampshire’s Supreme Court says Belknap County selected its sheriff illegally last year. The court overturned the Belknap County Convention’s choice of Craig Wiggin, who was selected to fill out the term of the...