The Saga of Keith Hickey

Merrimack Stuck Their Neck Out And Now They Have A Hickey On It by Ed Naile, Chair A few years back the Town of Merrimack fell victim to the glittering dream that a Town Charter form of government under RSA 49 was the answer to their overspending woes. With one simple...

Cold Math of Tax Leniency Chills a Tiny N.H. Town

Boston Globe WINDSOR, N.H. – This triangle-shaped town, wedged into the woods well west of Concord, has no store, no post office, no police force of its own. It counts 250 residents, but fewer live here year round. On the dead-end road that runs through the...

Tax Tabs Divide Windsor

WINDSOR – The smallest New Hampshire town south of the White Mountains is being divided by a battle over taxes – who pays them, when they pay them and where the money goes. About a year ago, a group of concerned citizens formed the Windsor Coalition of Taxpayers...

Three Things to Watch for at Town Meetings

by Jane Aitken (Originally published at NH Insider) Once again it is that time of year when NH residents will attend town meetings, school meetings, and deliberative sessions to decide how their tax dollars will be spent. They will make decisions about the education...

Followup on Windsor RTK Issue

by Ed Naile To follow up on a story about JJ Valera of Windsor who was forced to go to Hillsborough Superior Court, North to get “permission” from the Town of Windsor to film the Annual Meeting there – we “won”! Judge Conboy, with several sets of film crews (one was...

RSA 91-A *IS* the Right To Know

By Ed Naile Last week I was called by one of our members J.J.Valera of Windsor about some issues in his town. One that hit the papers March 7 was the story about an independent film crew who wanted to film the Windsor Town Meeting on March 14. J.J was told in rather...