If anyone doubts that fact is stranger than fiction, let’s take a look at last night’s meetings of the Manchester Board of School Committee.
It’s first meeting at five o’clock got off to a contentious start. At-Large Committee Member Rich Girard challenged the assertion that the board needed to go into non-public session to discuss, quote:
“the dismissal, promotion or compensation of any public employee; or for matters which if discussed in public, would likely affect adversely the reputation of any person.”
The matter to be discussed was a grievance filed by the Manchester Education Association. Girard said the matter didn’t involve any specific employee. |More…
CONCORD, NH — At October’s Concord City Council meeting, the mayor and councilors will consider a proposal to sell the former Department of Employment Security building on South Main Street to a Massachusetts developer for what appears to be a $1.3 million loss, according to documents. | More…
| Patch
CONCORD (AP) — A potted tree is no longer blocking a portrait of former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen at the New Hampshire Statehouse.
WMUR-TV reported Monday the tree, which was in front of the portrait in the reception area outside the governor’s office, was no longer there. It wasn’t immediately known where it had been relocated; a message was left with a spokesman for Republican Gov. Chris Sununu. | More…
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Amid growing uncertainty around New Hampshire’s Medicaid expansion program and a looming 2018 deadline, Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Jeffrey Meyers is exploring a new potential fix: provider taxes.
In an interview with the Monitor editorial board last week, Meyers said he disagrees with a letter sent to the state criticizing the state’s current model of paying for expanded Medicaid with voluntary funding from hospitals and health care providers, which raised concerns that the practice “may be out of compliance with federal requirements.”
But just in case the program does need to be amended, Meyers said, a fee or tax on the hospitals and insurance companies might be a suitable alternative. *|More…
BOSTON – A New Hampshire company was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for trafficking counterfeit New England Patriots AFC Championship and Super Bowl t-shirts during the 2015 NFL playoffs.
At the sentencing hearing, CK Productions Inc., based in Pelham, N.H., was ordered by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf to pay restitution in the amount of $29,405 to the NFL and a fine of $30,000. In April 2017, CK productions pleaded guilty to trafficking in counterfeit goods. |More…
During its 68-year run, the Weirs Drive-In Theater certainly played its fair share of “Indiana Jones” movies. Real life archeologists are also interested in what may be underneath the iconic outdoor movie theater’s thirteen paved acres.
“I would characterize this site as being the densest, potentially most important site in the state that we know of,” says New Hampshire state archaeologist Richard Boisvert. | More…
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This morning Rich and I spent the segment talking about a so-called for-profit private passenger rail plan with a hitch. This private for-profit plans to tap million in taxpayer dollars annually but can only get them if municipalities like Nashua sign up for the ride.
We also discuss other disadvantages of commuter rail and the advantages of freight rail in the age of the internet economy.
NH: Around April 2017, free staters schedule a Manchester demonstration against U.S. involvement in Syria. It’s triggered by Trump’s infamous bombing of an airfield. In keeping with my idea that you’re better off with many small protests than one big one… I demonstrate separately in Bedford above the turnpike. And I have a huge backlog of vids, but here it is finally. ‘
The requirement for every state to be admitted to the union, past and future, is that its people will be guaranteed a “republican form of government”; in other words, they must operate under the definition of a Republic. Therefore, the Constitutions of all 50 states clearly mandate that voting is a privilege and a right given ONLY to legal citizens.
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