Many believe freedom of thought is already over-controlled now with so much government regulation, oversight, and “political correctness” to force feed us into accepting a personal gut feeling we feel or may think to reject or to force decisions in our lives or labels upon us. Or to tie our lives into following a maze of doctrines and rules created by others. Keep Reading…
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With state and federal budgets in the news, and costs to the taxpayers ever-increasing, the question of “wants and needs” ought to be applied across the board. For instance, does New Hampshire need a federally-funded “Human Trafficking Collaborative Task Force?” Keep Reading…
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Municipalities throughout the state are waiting to see how the Trump administration will handle stormwater regulations, but some are ramping up spending in anticipation of the new rules going into effect.
The new process for the issuance of MS4 permits, which regulate how municipalities deal with stormwater runoff, was posted to the Environmental Protection Agency’s website Jan. 18. The new permits have been discussed for years, and municipalities have lobbied against them, calling them overly burdensome and unnecessarily costly. Keep Reading…
Did non-resident absentee ballots tip local election in a small New England town?
The attorney who successfully petitioned Essex Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Mann to stop the town of Victory’s upcoming Selectboard runoff election said Vermont’s lax residency laws are partly to blame for the alleged fraudulent voting in the small Northeast Kingdom community. Keep Reading…
The state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would enable Eversource to purchase power for its New Hampshire customers over Northern Pass transmission lines, for the ratepayers’ benefit and at their risk.
The Senate passed Senate Bill 128 just days after the Public Utilities PUC rejected a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) between Eversource and Hydro-Quebec to buy 100 megawatts of power dedicated to New Hampshire customers. Keep Reading…
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The state gasoline tax raised $128 million in 2006. Last year, even though lawmakers had raised the state portion by four cents a gallon, it brought in $124.3 million, he said.
“Everyone wants more mileage-efficient vehicles,” Boynton said, “but the more mileage-efficient vehicles are making the state and federal gas taxes under-perform.” Read more…
I hated pregnancy. I was miserable every time. I vomited throughout all nine months, had headaches, gained an obscene amount of weight, had no energy and cried frequently. Once my babies were born, it was like a switch had been flipped. I was ecstatic for months. Many women suffer through pregnancy, but that is no reason to kill a baby. Read the rest…
These are as of 11:30 am so there will be higher accumulations at storms end.
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When we were trying to make Constitutional Carry the law in New Hampshire, the anti-gun activists on the New Hampshire Fish and Game Commission opposed SB 12. You can click here to read the meeting minutes. Please read the January 11, 2017 meeting minutes and you will see that anti-gun Commissioner Walter Morse, (who we are told is involved with the management of Morse Sporting Goods in Hillsborough) made the motion to not only oppose SB 12 but to also oppose HB 84 which would repeal the “possession is a crime” statute. Keep Reading…
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