Finding new revenue won’t fix our state budget

January 8, 2009 Union Leader As a new legislative sessions starts, it is time for New Hampshire’s representatives to realize the consequences of their actions. Reading Rep. Roger Wells’ Tuesday op-ed (“State has little choice but to find new...

Question for next RNC leader: just whose side are you on?

January 8, 2009 Canada Free Press New GOP Chairman should remove Party from the International Democrat Union The race is on for a new chairman of the Republican Party. The outcome is important because the party has become so lost over the past few decades. No longer...

Stop the Education Nightmare

Because of the state budget crisis, most of the efforts made on education funding over the last two years will have to be changed. The Legislature has the ability and the opportunity to craft a new plan with the potential to end the constant battle with the courts....

Four more years of Lynch? No thanks

January 6, 2009 Seacoast Online PORTSMOUTH — State Sen. Martha Fuller Clark hopes a new bill on an old idea will gain the support of the Legislature and change the term of governor from two years to four. Fuller Clark, D-Portsmouth, has sponsored a bill she said will...

40 Strafford County layoffs confirmed; budget to be unveiled today

January 5, 2009 Fosters DOVER — County commissioners this morning will unveil a budget featuring only a 2.85 percent tax increase from last year, but it doesn’t come without a cost — 40 full-time county employees were laid off Friday, County Commission Chair...

Two Dems accused of NH’s budget woes

December 29, 2008 Seacoast Online How fierce will the political fight be over the state budget crisis? House Speaker Terie Norelli, D-Portsmouth, barely had announced her choices last week to chair the 22 House committees for the upcoming legislative session before a...