Category Archives: Budgets
Oversight Agency Faults How N.H. Accounts for Federal Election Money
A federal oversight agency’s review of how New Hampshire is spending $18 million in federal election money finds that the state, for the most part, follows the rules. But the back-and-forth within the audit illuminates a larger and long-running tension between the … Continue reading
N.H. lottery looks to grab piece of Mass. Keno pot
New Hampshire, which already cleans this state’s clock by siphoning away retail sales thanks to its lack of a sales tax, just delivered a one-two punch that landed squarely in Massachusetts’ solar plexus. Designed to take the air out of … Continue reading
Posted in Around New England, Budgets, Debt/Spending
Tagged Keno, Lottery, Massachusetts, Online Gambling
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Evergreen State College faces $2.1M budget shortfall, cites enrollment drop, issues layoff notices
Administrators at The Evergreen State College have announced that the embattled school faces a massive $2.1 million budget shortfall due in part to a drop in enrollment, and the institution has already handed out some temporary layoff notices as officials … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Culture, Debt/Spending, Education, Snowflake U, Snowflakes
Tagged Evergreen State College, Layoffs
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Learning, Teaching, Funding, and Education
In New Hampshire, most public school funding originates in the pocketbook of local taxpayers and most of us hope we elect a local school board that watches out not only for the students but also the taxpayer. It doesn’t always … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Education, Jobs/Unemployment
Tagged Dave Testerman, Education, Spending
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Conservative NH House members blast budget ‘shell game’
State lawmakers have been out of session for about two months, but hard feelings over the fiscal 2018-2019 state budget continue. The conservative New Hampshire House Freedom Caucus is livid this week over what one of its leaders calls “an … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending
Tagged Budget, Caucus, Conservative, NH House, WMUR
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Dover Puts Kenokarten Funding on Ballot
DOVER, N.H. (AP) — Council members in a New Hampshire city will allow residents to determine if they will permit the gambling game Keno in restaurants and bars. Foster’s Daily Democrat reports the Dover City Council unanimously approved the decision … Continue reading
Default Budgets: Anybody with the Guts to Fix Them?
You may remember that I challenged SAU 55 and the Timberlane Regional School District in New Hampshire’s Superior court in order to obtain a line-item default budget. Unfortunately, I was not successful and Timberlane taxpayers had to suffer once again … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Donna Green, Education
Tagged Default Budgets, Donna Green, SAU 55
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Portsmouth Could Consider Keno
City Councilor Brad Lown said he might make a motion to put a referendum on the ballot to allow Keno gambling in Portsmouth if the city could receive some of the proceeds. “If there is going to be revenue coming … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Education
Tagged Brad Lown, Kenogarten, Portsmouth
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NHFPI Hides the Good Fiscal News Behind What May Not Even be Bad News
In a recent report the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute (NHFPI) hems and haws its way through potential fiscal decline couched in “mights and maybes” and then (Surprise!) we get “substantially more” in paragraph four. While the preliminary accrual revenues for SFY … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Economy/Economics, GraniteGrok, Local NH Politics, taxes
Tagged Budget, New Hampshire, NHFPI, Revenue, taxes
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Medicaid expansion’s uncertain future
WITH A TWO-YEAR budget in place, the fate of Medicaid expansion in New Hampshire is likely to be the biggest policy issue facing the Legislature in 2018, and like everything else surrounding health care, it’s shrouded in uncertainty and confusion. … Continue reading
The New Media Militia 