Monthly Archives: June 2017

New Hampshire Electric Cooperative Breaks Ground on State’s Largest Solar Array

MOULTONBOROUGH — New Hampshire Electric Cooperative has begun construction of what will be the largest solar electric array in the state, a two-megawatt system that will provide its members a clean source of electricity located on NHEC’s own distribution system. … Continue reading

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Low carbon prices hang over RGGI as June auction approaches

RGGI is under pressure, but not only from low prices. It also faces the prospect that another state will quit the program. A proposed bill in New Hampshire calls for the state to exit RGGI. Critics of the regional cap-and-trade … Continue reading

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New Media Militia Top 5 Week Ending 6/4/17

The New Media Militia added 135 new articles last week. Here are last weeks top 5 favorites (in case you missed them). 5. Croydon “Education Tuitioning” Bill Passes the New Hampshire House 4. Steve Forster Has Friends Over – Neighbor Tattles to Town  (#2 Last … Continue reading

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Timberlane Taxes to Skyrocket

Timberlane School District residents will be asked to pay 8.9% more in taxes this November. As usual, Sandown and Danville will be slammed hardest. Also, as usual, the news was disguised. The administration reported at the June 1 school board … Continue reading

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Nashua Resident Charged with Running Brothel

Police have released few details, but the establishment’s grand opening was promoted on Backpage.com from Aug. 21. The announcement promises relief for pain that will relax your body and mind and the acceptance of cash only. More… | Patch

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NH woman’s sister in London: ‘We just feel very vulnerable here’

Katie Simon lives less than a mile from the site of the latest London terror attack. “Honestly, it’s convinced me it’s time to move out of the city,” said Simon, whose sister lives in Bedford. She added: “We just feel … Continue reading

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He hasn’t seen any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, yet

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he hasn’t seen any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, yet.   More… | UK Daily Mail

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Did Democrats Finally Ruin Connecticut?

The government can do nothing without first taking property from someone else. How much government should do cannot be separated from the problem of how much government must take. Who gets to decide what and “how much” is at the … Continue reading

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Budget Committee member won’t answer budget question

‘Wilton, NH: A cop appears outside a public government meeting when I try to film there. It seems he investigates me by speaking to the people who complained about me doing so. This occurs behind closed doors, and the finale … Continue reading

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San Diego State associate dean calls GOP an ‘extremist terrorist organization’

San Diego State University is defending an associate dean’s First Amendment rights after he called the GOP a terrorist group on Facebook. “The Republican Party has become an extremist terrorist organization,” SDSU Associate Dean Patrick McCarthy wrote in the comments … Continue reading

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