House lawmakers are poised to pass the “crown jewel” of the GOP-led regulatory reform effort on Thursday, effectively gutting the Dodd-Frank financial regulations that were put in place during the Obama administration.
Called the Financial Choice Act, the Republican bill seeks to undo significant parts of the 2010 financial reform law. More…
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Rich talked about Senate Bill 66, or the fetal homicide bill, explaining what it entails to the listeners. He was then joined by Executive Councilor David Wheeler, who aimed to share the legal, political and moral standpoints from his perspective. Tune in to hear the shocking news about the letter of the law. | More…
Two of the government’s top intelligence officials said Wednesday that they did not feel pressured to end investigations into Russian meddling in the November presidential election, though fired FBI Director James B. Comey did say President Trump asked him to drop a piece of the probe looking into a former top aide.
In testimony prepared for delivery Thursday to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Mr. Comey also confirmed that he thrice told Mr. Trump he was not personally under investigation. | More…
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As the New Hampshire Legislature wraps up its session this month, the rest of the year will see more election activity — specifically, with Republicans who want to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. It’s expected that Democratic U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter in the 1st Congressional District and U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster in the 2nd Congressional District will seek re-election, leaving the field wide open for the GOP to try to defeat them. | More…
In New Jersey, the State Supreme Court is once again, as has been the norm since 1972, ordering more spending on government schools.
The first case, Robinson v. Cahill 1972, opened Pandora’s Spending Box for schools – without any requirements to measure “progress.” But when Progress is measured by increased spending and removing away local control you could say the progressives won hands down.
Here we are in 2017 and once again a politically active progressive State Supra is legislating and spending from the bench. As we knew they would.
The first education funding scam was instrumental in the creation of the 1978 New Jersey State Income Tax. This income tax was the panacea for education spending in government schools – which are still without a court ordered increased educational results, for some reason. | More…
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week sent a memo to top Justice Department officials declaring that, effective immediately, “Department attorneys may not enter into any agreement” that would direct punitive payments to non-victim third party organizations.
Sessions’ order halts an Obama-era scheme that allowed government bureaucrats to build a slush fund of money collected via fines collected from corporate bad actors and distribute the money to non-governmental advocacy organizations.
As a result, millions of dollars that otherwise would have been allocated to the Treasury were diverted to groups on the government’s approved list of recipients, which included several liberal activist organizations such as The National Council of La Raza, The National Urban League, The National Community Reinvestment Coalition and NeighborWorks America, among others. | More…
MANCHESTER — A city man is charged with a violation for illegally possessing two alligators.
Jacob R. Bourque, 20, was picked up in Epping Wednesday after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
New Hampshire Fish and Game Conservation Officer Shawn A. MacFadzen said he was called April 29 concerning two alligators at a home at 145 Milton St. More…
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The effectiveness of that branding was evident in a CNN interview with New Hampshire Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who claims to be a direct descendant of Pocahontas and to have the family ancestry documented. Pocahontas allegedly was Shaheen’s 11th Great Grandmother.
CNN raise the Pocahontas ancestry with Shaheen, and then dropped the bomb, whether Shaheen had mentioned it to Elizabeth Warren:
Q. Have you told Elizabeth Warren?
A. Kind of a sensitive topic, so probably not.
…cast of known characters that decided, contra the NH GOP Platform, that shoving NH into the Obamacare morass via the Medicaid Expansion (Hey Jeb – thanks for the extra taxes!). So once again, Govt has decided that it knows economics better than anyone and these self-righteous nitwits went for it. I’m not waiting for my breath to get baited to see what Government will come up to fix what Government made worse. More…
The Lebanon City Council voted Wednesday to amend the city’s master plan, removing references to natural gas as a favored energy source. The move is largely symbolic, but it reflects growing concern around the environmental impact of natural gas.
Residents in the Upper Valley are organizing to fight a proposal by Liberty Utilities for a new natural gas facility and pipeline running through Lebanon and Hanover. The state Public Utilities Commission is slated to hear that proposal in September. | More…
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