Author Archives: Steve Mac Donald
Hey, NH! Want A State Income Tax?
A great many residents of New Hampshire would tell you that their absolute favorite thing about living in the ‘Live Free or Die’ state is the absence of a state income tax. New Hampshire is one of only seven States … Continue reading
NH House votes to boost RGGI fund for residential programs
The NH House not only rejected an attempt to gut New Hampshire’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, lawmakers actually voted to more than triple the amount of RGGI money going to residential energy-efficiency programs, with a special emphasis … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Environment, Legislation
Tagged Benefits Charge, HB317, HB559, NH House, RGGI
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2018 Bills Re: Homeschoolers
There are a handful of bills that impact homeschoolers this year. We are tracking some of them, but want the community to be aware of the others. Front and center is House Bill 1263, a bill that would reinstate the annual … Continue reading
Posted in Legislation, NH School Choice, School Choice for NH
Tagged HB1263, Michelle Levell
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Mandatory diversity course not effective, prof discovers
After assessing the bias of students before and after the course—using prompts such as “a woman should worry less about their rights and more about becoming good wives and mothers” and “if blacks would only try harder they could be … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Snowflake U, Snowflakes
Tagged Bias, Diversity, Training
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Gericke to take on D’Allesandro again for state senate seat
MANCHESTER — Republican Carla Gericke has announced that she will again challenge Democratic State Sen. Lou D’Allesandro for the District 20 Senate seat he’s held for 10 terms. Gericke lost with 40 percent of the vote to D’Allesdandro’s 60 percent … Continue reading
Posted in Elections
Tagged Carla Gericke, Elections, Lou D'Allesandro, Manchester, NH Senate
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School Choice for NH: Schedule for Week of January 8, 2018
Welcome to the start of the 2018 legislative session! The Senate and House Education Committees kick off with full schedules of public hearings. We are monitoring several bills and those will include our analysis and recommendations. | Keep Reading at … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Legislation, NH School Choice, School Choice for NH
Tagged Education, Michelle Levell, State House
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House Declines to Refer Rep. Rogers to Legislative Admin Committee
The New Hampshire House on Tuesday rejected (on a 99-222 vote) a motion to refer Rep. Katherine Rogers (D-Concord) to the Legislative Administration Committee on the grounds of her recent guilty plea to an assault charge. Rogers admitted to assaulting … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Democrats, GraniteGrok, New Hampshire News
Tagged Assault, Ellen Kolb, Katherine Rodgers, NH House, Susan Olsen
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For Liberals Every Damn Thing in the World is About Trump
Liberals have been seized by a sort of dementia in which their obsessive hatred for President Trump blinds them to reality and causes them to say things, every day, that are inexplicably stupid. |Read more at Powerline
Posted in Culture, National News, Progressives
Tagged Liberals, Media, Powerline, Trump
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N.H. State House Leaders To Lobbyists: You’re Covered By Anti-Harassment Policies, Too
All State House lobbyists got a first-of-its-kind letter from leaders of the New Hampshire House and Senate last week, detailing the Legislature’s sexual harassment policies and reporting procedures. Its message was simple: Lobbyists should know they’re covered by those policies, too, and … Continue reading
Shaheen, Hassan Won’t Hold Up Budget for DACA
Both New Hampshire’s U.S. senators said Monday they will not hold up a budget deal as leverage for immigration reform. President Donald Trump ended the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program – or DACA – last year. The program protected … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Democrats, Immigration/Illegal Immigration
Tagged Budget, DACA, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan, US Senate
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The New Media Militia 