Category Archives: Budgets
Girard At Large: On Air News Read for August 2, 2017
The federal government published information on proposed rate increases for New Hampshire’s Obamacare Health Insurance Exchange for 2018, yesterday. As expected it showed that consumers in the individual market will likely face increases of more than forty percent, which New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Roger … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Economy/Economics, Health Care
Tagged Health Care, News Read, Rich Girard
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Donna Green: Seattle’s Pointless Legal Battle with Public Money
The very first right of the public to be infringed in floundering administrations is the public’s right to know what their government is doing. Unlike rational individuals spending their own money, public entities will take up hopeless legal battles in … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Donna Green, taxes
Tagged Earl Metzler, SAU 55, Seattle, Spending, taxes
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Medicaid Assists More Than 185,000 New Hampshire Residents (as if That’s a Good Thing)
This is an interesting take on the Medicaid situation in NH. Follow the link to look at the graph (so you can feel the expansion of Medicaid with your eyes) and the breakdown of whom it supposedly serves. One of … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Health Care
Tagged Medicaid, Medicaid Expansion, New Hampshire
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State sends $30 million back to N.H. cities and towns for infrastructure
In his budget address in February, Sununu had proposed establishing an Infrastructure Revitalization Fund with surplus dollars to help pay for local projects, including school renovations. A 10-member commission would have chosen which projects to fund, and Sununu estimated as … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, New Hampshire News
Tagged Infrastructure, State Budget, Surplus
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How Screwed Are Massachusetts Retailers, Let us Count the Ways
Bricks and mortar retailers in the Bay state getting crushed by e-tailing, and without the annual tax holiday, are looking for a way to keep their heads above water. | NH1
Posted in Around New England, Budgets, Debt/Spending, Economy/Economics, Jobs/Unemployment, taxes
Tagged Massachusetts, Tax holiday, taxes
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Keno-Garten is officially on the books now in New Hampshire
Keno-Garten is officially on the books now in New Hampshire. Governor Christopher Sununu signed the bill into law yesterday. For those who’ve forgotten or are otherwise unaware, the funding mechanism for Full Day K, as it’s called, is the gambling … Continue reading
Is Jeanne Shaheen doing the usual Dem two-step on Medicaid?
SHOT: Shaheen: Proposed Medicaid cuts would have ‘disproportionate impact’ on elderly CHASER: Fact Check: No, the GOP Healthcare Bill Does Not ‘Slash’ or ‘Cut’ Medicaid. | More… | GraniteGrok
Turkey Will Only Agree to Paris Climate Deal if There’s Free Money
It’s always been about global socialist redistribution. The U.S. decision to pull out of the Paris climate agreement means Turkey is less inclined to ratify the deal because the U.S. move jeopardizes compensation promised to developing countries, President Tayyip Erdogan said … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Climate, Debt/Spending, Energy
Tagged Free Money, Paris Climate Accord, Turkey
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The New State Budget’s in Effect, But Contract for State Workers Remains Unresolved
The new state budget may be in effect, but one issue still unresolved is a contract for state employees. Governor Sununu says he’d welcome a deal but it may not happen. Negotiations between the Sununu administration and the five unions … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Local NH Politics, Unions
Tagged Chris Sununu, Contract, State Employees
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Sandown Selectmen will discuss town employees’ salaries
SANDOWN — After a third-party study concluded that Sandown lags behind other communities in town employee salaries, selectmen disagree on whether to increase workers’ pay to match the market. The board will debate at Monday’s 6 p.m. meeting whether Sandown … Continue reading
Posted in Around New England, Budgets, Local NH Politics
Tagged Salaries, Sandown, Town Employees
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The New Media Militia 