Category Archives: Debt/Spending
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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North Country Gets $2.2 Million for Border Projects
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The Northern Border Regional Commission has awarded more than $2.2 million in federal funds to 13 development projects across New Hampshire. The projects range from a septic wastewater treatment station in Whitefield to parking in Lancaster to … Continue reading
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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NH Primary Source: AFP-NH launches series of forums on ‘Tax Fairness’
Several dozen Granite State Republicans and business owners gathered at the Derryfield Restaurant in Manchester on Wednesday for the first of three “Tax Fairness Forums” organized by the conservative issues group Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire. Greg Moore, AFP state director, … Continue reading
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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New Hampshire Shuts Down Renewables Rebate Programs ‘Until Further Notice’
Citing budget constraints and an influx of waitlisted applications, New Hampshire’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) recently announced the temporary closure of the state’s Residential Solar and Wind Rebate Program and Commercial and Industrial Solar Rebate Program. | More… |NA Windpower.com
Feds dole out $3 Million (plus!) to fight ‘microaggressions’ in STEM fields
The National Science Foundation (NSF) gave out more than three million dollars to fight “implicit bias,” “microaggressions,” and “lack of diversity” in STEM fields this July. Founded by Congress in 1950, the NSF is a federal agency that seeks to … Continue reading
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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The New Media Militia 