Did Vermonters help swing New Hampshire’s election?

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

According to state records on same-day voter registration, 212 Vermonters were among the 6,540 people who registered to vote in New Hampshire on Election Day using an out-of-state license.

President Donald Trump’s election integrity commission has been investigating the possibility that thousands of out-of-state voters may have influenced the 2016 New Hampshire election.

“Facts have come to light that indicate that a pivotal, close election was likely changed through voter fraud on November 8, 2016: New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate Seat, | Keep Reading at True North Reports

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New Hampshire House Freedom Caucus Announces Committed Speaker Candidates, Panelists for November 2nd Forum

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

Concord – The New Hampshire House Freedom Caucus (NHHFC) will host a forum for candidates for Speaker of the House on next Thursday, November 2nd, after the House veto session. Currently, seven candidates for Speaker have confirmed for the event, which will be moderated by Rep. Len Turcotte (R-Barrington), with a panel of policy experts.

The confirmed speaker candidates are (in alphabetical order):|Keep Reading at NHHFC.org

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Timberlane Taxes Skyrocket… Again

Posted on October 27, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

When you Google “management,” this definition pops up:  “the process of dealing with or controlling things or people.”

I’ll let you judge if Timberlane’s budget and our associated taxes are being “controlled.”

New Hampshire’s Department of Revenue has released Timberlane’s cooperative town apportionment for 2017.  This document sets out the amount of money each town in our cooperative school district must pay to Timberlane. | Keep Reading at timberlaneandsandown

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Who is Running the Store? It’s NOT the Taxpayers

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

Did you ever wonder why, even after the taxpayers have had their say against building a commuter rail system for NH, for example, the agenda for a ‘study committee’ marches on? Did you ever wonder how these projects get approved even after the public has said a resounding NO? | Keep Reading at Granite State Futures.org

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NH Student Proficiency Continues to Slip in English and Math

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

The New Hampshire Department of Education released the 2017 Smarter Balanced Assessment results earlier this week. Like many other Common Core (aka College and Career Readiness Standards) states, proficiency scores slipped in English and Math across grades three through eight.

Elementary students show only 58% are proficient or above (level 3 and 4) in English, down 1.7% from 2016. In math, only 49% are proficient or above, with a similar decline of 1.7% from last year. |Keep Reading at School Choice for NH

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Free Keene: What Happened to CopBlock.org?

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

I was alarmed this Summer when Ademo [Freeman] announced that he was putting CopBlock.org up for sale. I wasn’t surprised that he wanted out. Ademo has seen his share of burnout and has suffered greatly in his quest to hold police accountable. Ademo was a trailblazer in police accountability activism and deserves as much of a break as he wants. He’s currently describing himself as a “happily retired activist” and he should be. Our world is better off because Cop Block is in it. |Read More at Free Keene

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Four Challenges Ahead of Helen Hanks, Sununu’s Pick to Lead Corrections Department

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

Gov. Chris Sununu announced the nomination of Helen E. Hanks as Commissioner of Department of Corrections at an Executive Council meeting on Wednesday.

Hanks served as Assistant Corrections Commissioner since 2014. She has worked for the Department of Corrections since 2003, rising to the position of Director of Medical and Forensic Services in 2011. |Keep Reading at NH Journal

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Nashua Telegraph Cited with $9,000 in Wage Violations

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

The Telegraph in Nashua has been cited for wage violations by the state’s Labor Department. The newspaper was cited for failing to pay employees the full wages for the hours they worked, based on a rounding system in the company’s payroll.

Around 30 past and current employees were affected by the violations, totaling upward of $9,000. The investigation was spurred by an employee complaint issued last year. |Read More at NHPR

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Rick Olson: Misguided Prosecution

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

In the last couple of days, I have seen some pretty harsh emotional critique about 31-year-old Alycia Neely’s arrest. (…)

[But] Reasonable people are hard-pressed to find a specific statute to best apply here. And the reason is, “Its not a crime.” Instead, it is a personal value judgment exerted under color of authority. That is merely an opinion. Mine. Looking all around it, however, I find no other place to intellectually land on this issue. It certainly happens. And we roll this same old boring tape of having it go to the Supreme Court. |Read More at GraniteGrok.com

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NH House panel OKs corporate jet fee cuts

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

A key NH House committee has recommended cutting registration fees in order to attract corporate jets and large fleets of trucks to the state.

The Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday easily passed House Bill 124, which would eliminate the portion of the state’s aircraft registration fee that is based on value. That fee was causing jet owners to base their private planes out of state, proponents of the bill said. The bill replaces lost revenue by reducing the value fee by increasing fees on small aircraft and more than doubling the aviation fuel tax. |Keep Reading at NHBR

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