New Current Use Assessments OK’d by Board

Follow-up to January 29, 2010 article. “Another hearing was held Jan. 22. If the proposed rates are approved, they will then be sent to the state for administrative review and could go into affect in April.” Assessment updates to New Hampshire’s current...

The LLC Tax: Blatant Partisan Trickery

In an attempt to clarify these misleading mailers from Jeff Goley sent out under the name of the NHDP/Raymond Buckley, the Union Leader apparently did a little digging and came up with the opinion that “…the state Democratic Party is misleading the voters...

Cronyism and corporate welfare rule RGGI grants

Fergus Cullen for the Union Leader New Hampshire conservationists had high hopes for how $18 million in funding generated by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) might advance energy efficiency projects. Unfortunately, cronyism and corporate welfare hallmark...

Bullying Legislation – Who is Behind It? (HB 1523)

UPDATE: There will be a House Education Committee subcommitee work session on February 16, 2010 at 10:00 AM in LOB 207. We still say that this bill is NOT NEEDED, but if it passes, should only pass WITH THE AMENDMENT that provides for NO DISCRIMINATION about which...

Voters Must Do Their Duty!

We at CNHT cannot hammer away enough on the importance of attending your town and school deliberative sessions and subsequent March 9 ballot votes on warrant articles this spring, and every spring. In NH, it is here, locally, that counts the most when it comes to...

Rochester Taxpayers Reject Educational Fads

Rochester Taxpayers has done its homework. They do not support the ‘Big Picture’ school concept, recognizing it to be based on the failed “outcome-based” educational philosophy that has morphed and changed to be called other things such as...