NH Food Truck and Craft Beer Festival coming to Seacoast
PORTSMOUTH — The fourth New Hampshire Food Truck and Craft Beer Festival will run from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Redhook Brewery.
While some of New England’s most popular food trucks dish out fan favorites ranging from grilled cheese to ribs, Redhook will be selling its ales and beers. There also will live music from The Budds and some lawn games. | More…
Sununu’s Visit With EversourceNH’s Bill Quinlan, IBEW Not On His Public Agenda
EversourceNH president Bill Quinlan, Manchester Community College and IBEW electrical union representatives welcomed Gov. Chris Sununu to a regular lineworker training session Wednesday, according to an Eversource news release. The event was not posted on Sununu’s public schedule. | More…
Posted in Energy, New Hampshire News
Tagged Bill Quinlan, Chris Sununu, Eversource, IBEW
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Send Me A Link To Your NH Taxpayer Association Web Site or Facebook Page
New Hampshire has a lot of taxpayer groups where folks share the sort of local content New Media Militia wants to share.
I will be checking out CNHT for their list as time permits but to help facilitate the process, I’m asking anyone with an active taxpayer group website or public Facebook page to send me a link at nh.steve@yahoo.com. Once I have that I will check your pages from time to time for local content to share here.
I get a lot of emails so please please put “add my taxpayer group” in the subject line.
Thanks!
Manchester taxpayers group relaunching with new board
MANCHESTER — A group that led the petition drive to cap city spending more than a decade ago is being resurrected by a new collection of concerned citizens and local business leaders. …
Organizers said they decided to join together at what they believe is a “critical crossroads in the city’s history and development” and relaunch the citizens group, which collected over 5,100 signatures during a petition drive proposing a city spending cap in Manchester back in 2005. *| More…
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Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, taxes
Tagged Concerned Taxpayers of Manchester, Manchester, Taxpayers
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New Hampshire lawmakers grill proponents of tax credit proposal
The Small Business Jobs Fund Act, a $60 million tax credit to encourage investment in New Hampshire, would more than pay for itself, according to the two companies that back the program and stand to make millions of dollars of fees from it.
New Hampshire taxpayers would get back extra 55 cents for every $1 in credits, municipalities would get $15 million and some 1,200 new high-wage jobs would be created as a result, said an analysis conducted by Economic Impact Group and paid for by Advantage Capital Partners. | More…
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Jon DiPietro seeks release of Tessier Report
Manchester, NH– Jon DiPietro, candidate for school board in Ward 6, submitted a Right to Know request to Manchester Board of School Committee Clerk Maura Leahy today. He is seeking access to documents related to the breach of confidentiality by at-large Board of School Committee (BOSC) member Nancy Tessier on September 14th, 2017. | More…
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Posted in Education, Local NH Politics
Tagged Board of School Committee, Jon DiPietro, Manchester, Nancy Tessier
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N.H. Medicaid to See Premium Increases
Concord — About 25,000 New Hampshire residents will pay an average of 52 percent more for their health insurance next year, an analyst hired by the state insurance department told lawmakers on Wednesday.
Bela Gorman of Gorman Actuarial, a health insurance consulting firm, presented her findings to a legislative committee studying the future of New Hampshire’s expanded Medicaid program, which uses federal money to put about 43,000 low-income residents on private insurance under former President Barack Obama’s health care law. * | More…
Volinsky decides against gubernatorial run
The Democratic field for governor in 2018 is wide open, now that Executive Councilor Andru Volinsky has decided he won’t be running for anything other than re-election to the five-member council.
Volinsky was being encouraged to run by many party officials and supporters, but decided now is not the time, leaving former Portsmouth Mayor Steve Marchand as the only declared Democrat.
In a letter to supporters released on Wednesday, Volinsky said he was humbled by those who encouraged him to run, but after careful consideration has decided “the time is not right for me or my family. I will, however, proudly seek another term as a New Hampshire executive councilor representing District Two.” | More…
Ellen Kolb: Banned Books Week? Bah, Humbug!
It’s “Banned Books Week.” Pardon my groan. I rant about this every year. No end in sight, alas.
The folks behind Banned Books Week – a coalition of the American Library Association and allied groups – lost all credibility with me years ago when they conflated “banned” and “challenged,” especially when the challenge is to the use of a book in a curriculum. Get a clue: the challengers aren’t “banning” a book any more than the people who chose the book for the curriculum in the first place were “banning” alternatives. | More…
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