Monthly Archives: June 2017
Keene City Council approves $61.4 million budget
Keene’s 2017-18 budget has been set, and with it a projected increase of 27 cents per $1,000 property valuation to the city’s portion of the tax rate. The City Council voted unanimously Thursday night to approve the $61,379,413 budget, which … Continue reading
Posted in Debt/Spending, Local NH Politics, taxes
Tagged Budget, Keene, Property Taxes
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NASCAR will actually be in NH this week, and you can see it for free
You might not know it, but NASCAR will actually be in the Granite State this week. New Hampshire Motor Speedway is hosting some NASCAR favorites to test before the New Hampshire 301 in July for a two-day test session on … Continue reading
Is Your Town among the 100 best places to live in NH?
After exploring 228 cities and over 15,000 towns and neighborhoods, the analysis site Niche released their 2017 Best Places to Live rankings, including the best places to live in New Hampshire. Niche used data based on crime, public schools, cost … Continue reading
Posted in Around New England, New Hampshire News
Tagged Best Towns, New Hampshire, NH1
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Some of Accused Tax Cheat Thomas Katsiantonis’ Donations to NH Democrats
While he was giving his business an unofficial and unapproved tax break, he was also donating cash to local Democrat candidate campaigns. Most if not all of them oppose cutting any New Hampshire taxes including those for small business owners … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Democrats, GraniteGrok, Hypocrats, Local NH Politics, New Hampshire News, taxes
Tagged Donations, taxes, Thomas Katsiantonis
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Residents in favor of keeping transgender, gender-nonconforming policy at Candia school
CANDIA — The School Board heard from concerned residents and others on Thursday during a hearing to gather input from the public about the district’s new policy designed to provide protection against discrimination for transgender students. The meeting was held … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Local NH Politics
Tagged Bathrooms, Candia, Transgender
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To defend a higher minimum wage, San Fran looks at… banning robots
With the minimum wage in San Francisco currently at $13 dollars per hour, heading to $14 on July 1st and $15 one year after that, companies in the delivery business are already exploring the use of ground-based robots to bring … Continue reading
Posted in Economy/Economics, Jobs/Unemployment, National News
Tagged Automation, Minimum Wage, San Francisco
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James O’Keefe sued for $1 million over video sting
O’Keefe and his organization posted some of the videos online last October, purporting to show efforts by Democrats to provoke violence at Donald Trump’s campaign rallies and events. The recordings led two Democratic operatives, Robert Creamer and Scott Foval, to … Continue reading
Posted in National News
Tagged Democracy Partners, James O'Keefe, Project Veritas, Robert Creamer, Scott Foval
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Scott Adams: The Kathy Griffin Controversy
The takeaway here should not be so much about Griffin. The takeaway is that a room full of people involved in the photoshoot did not see this as a huge problem from the start. They were living a different movie. … Continue reading
The U.S. can’t quit the Paris climate agreement, because it never actually joined
Some scholars have gone so far as to argue that the Paris agreement represents an exotic and previously unidentified species of international deal that does not have to be treated as a treaty. But even in this view, if Obama was … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Environment, International News, National Politics & Policy
Tagged Eugene Kontorovich, Obama, Paris, Treaty, Trump, US Senate, Washington Post
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Govt. worker doesn’t want to be filmed (Wilton, NH)
‘A Wilton, NH cop investigates reports of suspected-Ridley-filming-near-government-meeting. While he’s hidden in a nearby room interviewing witnesses, the first person he approached and questioned…decides to question me herself. ‘ | Ridley Report
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