Category Archives: New Hampshire News

Is NH distracted by Cell phones?

The NH legislature, and Rep Richard Drisko, will be revisiting their efforts to write a new distracted driving law with features that prohibit driving with a pet on your lap, would require headlight use when its raining, and bans texting … Continue reading

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Excuse me, but your Bias is (still) showing.

Wouldn’t it seem odd if a town that tends to vote Republican had a local paper whose letters page overwhelmingly printed endorsements from and for democrat candidates?  Would it seem stranger if it printed letters from “citizens” questioning republican candidates and … Continue reading

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You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!

  Shaheen has launched a four person committee whose sole purpose is to combat what PR gal Kate Bedingfield calls “distortions of Sununu’s record coming from the Republican side.”    But her Truth team for justice and the Non-Republican Way™ is … Continue reading

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Carol-Shea gets some Flood insurance

This weeks Merrimack Journal again has a “Letter to the editor” from another relatively well connected democrat who is endorsing another democrat—Carol Shea-Porter—without any specific mention of his party particulars.  Peter Flood has a distinguished list of credits including service … Continue reading

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Trapped in a ‘Webb’ of deception

Merrimack, August 7th: In a letter by Fred Morse, posted at the Merrimack Journal on-line (I don’t know if it made the print edition) Mr. Morse quotes the BBC’s Justin Webb to justify his interpretation of some things McCain has said … Continue reading

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All the opinion that’s fit to print

Letters to the editor are probably the simplest way for a publication to openly express its actual opinions on matters of policy.  Opinion pages are popular.  Using its editorial prerogative the paper can publish letters by “concerned residents” that might … Continue reading

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Kathy Sullivan get’s dizzy from the spin.

Front page, Sunday Union Leader, in an article assessing Sununu’s ability to shake “The Bush effect,” NH State DHC (Democrat High Council) senior adviser Kathy Sullivan sees Sununu as “a big part of the problem.”  So what problem is she … Continue reading

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Local Newss?

This form the UK on New Hampshire. I have not honestly looked arond yet to see what local coverage there is on this, I may be way behind as usual, but the fact that his is news in the UK … Continue reading

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Sununu Rising

I’m on a tight schedule this week so free time is at a premium, but this from the Concord Monitor was promising news for John Sununu.  He is a statistical dead-heat with challenger Shaheen.   This is great because it really brings … Continue reading

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If you think we need change, how about a new Governor?

[UPDATED] There’s the New Hampshire way, and then there is John Lynch’s way.  John Lynch is leading New Hampshire in the wrong direction.  Our State government has a spending addiction that he can’t or wont stop.  Our Democrat legislature is growing … Continue reading

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