Senator Jeanne Shaheen joined a growing list of Democrats who are co-sponsoring a national single-payer health insurance plan put forward by Vermont’s Bernie Sanders.
The 2016 Presidential candidate has long championed universal health coverage, including efforts in his home state to pass a government-run program. | More…
| NHPR
For a state with no minimum wage the people who live here are doing rather well.
The mean average hourly wage for the entire state rose from $22.62/hour in 2014 to $24.03/hour in the 2016 report (+6.2%). The mean entry level wage in New Hampshire is $10.66/hour, $3.41 above the federal minimum wage. The median wage is up to $18.39/hour. And if you have “experience,” your average wage is $31.71/hour.
New Hampshire has the lowest poverty rate in the nation and in 2016 they had (not for the first time) the highest median income in the country. | More…
(9.1 percent real estate vacancy is best since 2008)
The retail real estate market in southern New Hampshire is showing signs of improvement, according to the KeyPoint Partners’ annual overview of the region.
In fact, the Burlington, Mass.-based KeyPoint’s Report for Southern New Hampshire 2017 paints a picture of a market bouncing back somewhat. | More…
| NHBR
O’Brien said the union is being run by non-elected “full-time political hacks” who have never been Teamsters and whom other Teamster officials have complained about for years. “It is a situation which you tolerate, and I don’t have the confidence that you have the will to change,” O’Brien wrote.
In perhaps the most damning accusations, O’Brien said certain staff members at the international union have turned the UPS division and the union in general “into their own personal playground” and that the “games they are pursuing come at the expense of the membership.” The only name mentioned in the letter was that of Todd Thompson, who serves as an executive assistant to Hoffa. | More…
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has announced his resignation after a fifth man came forward and accused him of sexual abuse decades ago.
Murray had already announced earlier that he would not seek a second term.
He said today that he would step down effective 5 p.m. Wednesday. Four men had previously accused him of sexually abusing them. | More…
| WMUR
LACONIA — In a mild upset, New Hampshire House Democrats took back a seat from Republicans following a special election Tuesday.
Unofficially, Laconia Democrat Charles St. Clair defeated Laconia Republican Steve Whalley for this seat that’s made up of all six Laconia wards along with the town of Belmont.
The final margin was 1,267 for St. Clair to 1,009 for Whalley. *| More…
| UL
NASHUA — Despite pleas from dozens of city residents eager to have a new downtown performing arts center, aldermen on Tuesday rejected a proposal to spend $15.5 million to convert the former Alec’s Shoes building into an arts venue.
The board did agree, however, to place a non-binding question on the November ballot asking voters whether aldermen should authorize a bond for a future arts center. *| More…
| UL
During Hillary’s failed presidential campaign the Democrat National Party, of which New Hampshire Democrat Ray Buckley is a Vice Chair, abandoned white working class voters.
Recently, New Hampshire State Party Chairman Ray Buckley labeled rural and unregistered voters as white supremacists.
I presume this means that he can not allow any of his candidates to pursue them. So how is a state party to grow it’s voter base if the citizens you’ve got are either not worth your time, too unsophisticated, or too racist? | More…
Sept. 12, 2017, Fairfax, Va.–Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement disputing long-time Republican consultant Alex Conant’s assertion that President Donald Trump “is not a limited government conservative”:
“Long-time presidential campaign consultant Alex Conant is wrong in his assertion that Donald Trump is not a limited government president. In fact, President Donald Trump is the most limited government president since Ronald Reagan sat in the Oval Office. | More…
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