Archive for category: News Around The Granite State

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  NH: Fetal Murder Bill Passes…But…

  January 6, 2012 8:35 am 1 comment

  …the larger intent of the bill’s author died in committee.

   

• Pembroke School Board Draws A Line In The Sand

  August 25, 2010 6:15 am no comments

  If a fight must be waged, let it be waged in Pembroke…ultimately we will find out whether the NH Supremes believe it is up to the will of the people to determine how Teachers are compensated for their performance, or if that decision is best left to the Legislators in Concord (after a bevy of lobbying efforts from Teacher’s Unions all around the State seeking to line their OWN pockets).

   

• What Unions Hath Wrought

  August 20, 2010 9:29 am no comments

  The UL piece indicates that, after a hearing before the PELRB, the case will likely continue (regardless the outcome) all the way to the NH Supreme Court. I hope it does; rewarding Unions for blackmail and paying them to hold out for things their employers can not afford is no longer tolerable.

   

• Dead Palin-Gate

  August 12, 2010 7:53 pm 1 comment

  I would like to remind folks, however, that we live in truly wonderful and delicious times when the party that runs our country is made up of such outstanding members of society, with all the care and empathy and worry for their fellow man of a serial killer, that it would even occur to them to wish for someone else’s death (or revel in the notion of it).

   

• NH-1: The Latest Earmark Battleground?

  August 3, 2010 11:45 am no comments

  I just can’t help but wonder what Guinta will say to us when, after he’s elected, he finds himself having to go along with something he’ll blame the House Leadership for having made him vote in favor of. I’m just not sold on whether Guinta is a leader…or whether he’s going to just go along to get along. If it’s the latter, we won’t be any better off for having given him those 2 years in DC he wants so badly…

   

• Repealing New Hampshire’s Gay Marriage Law Is *Inexpedient To Legislate*

  February 18, 2010 6:26 am no comments

  New Hampshire lawmakers have voted down an attempt to repeal the law(s) granting same sex marriage rights put forward by House Republicans. By wide margins, Democrats have successfully upheld legislation they passed last year: Opponents of HB 1590 said it would be wrong to back-track and to deny gays and [...]