As volunteers sacrificing our time away from our home, families and rest from work, we contribute hundreds of hours each toward our presidential nominee. So what does it say about the character of our senator when she directly implies New Hampshire volunteers are wrong? I became disillusioned ...
The state budget is not the most talked-about issue on the campaign trail, but nearly every issue that is important to us - turning the tide against the heroin and opioid crisis, strengthening our economy and creating new jobs, or reducing the cost of higher education and health care - is ...
The state budget is arguably the single most important piece of legislation that directly impacts all New Hampshire residents. Just five years ago, under control of the Democrats, the state faced an $800 million deficit while amassing 99 tax and fee increases in just a few years. Fast-forward ...
Granite State Taxpayers is one of the oldest taxpayer organizations in the state, working every day to enlighten and educate the New Hampshire taxpayers as to the effect that low spending, which equates to low taxes, will have on their day-to-day lives. One of the ways we do this is to rate ...
Last weekend was a big one for our downtown. Many of you might be familiar with the annual ArtWalk Weekend that has now taken place each fall in our downtown for the past 12 years, and last weekend's 2016 installment of this event was just as fun as ever. But it wasn't just the ArtWalk ...
Hub of Greater Nashua and its ongoing traffic dilemma There are Hudson town officials who want to conduct a traffic study because of congestion related to Lowell Road. Town Planner John Cashell originally proposed using $100,000 of $1.5 million in available Cost Allocation Procedure ...
New Hampshire taxpayers, beware. The federal government is quietly implementing a massive taxpayer-funded bailout for special interests. Not only that, this bailout will allow the Affordable Care Act to continue wreaking havoc in your state for years to come. So which special interests are ...
If it is election time in New Hampshire, there's at least one unfortunate guarantee: too many campaign signs will get destroyed faster than old Halloween pumpkins on Nov. 1. This is a problem that comes every election cycle, and it is a bipartisan issue. Patricia Klee, of Ward 3, seeking one ...
One of the oldest, tried and true, forms of political support is still the political yard sign --from our friends and neighbors running for local offices to state candidates to the highest profile political party nominees running for president. We see the signs in yards and throughout our ...
I support Dan Weeks for District 5 executive councilor. This convoluted district stretches from Nashua west to Jaffrey, and winds northwest from Litchfield to Dunbarton and Hillsborough. Dan is young - only 33 - and he and his wife have twins, born this past May. New Hampshire government ...
I am a longtime Republican supporter and I have tried desperately to find reasons to support Donald Trump, but have been unable to get there. His latest sexual assault fantasy admission was the last straw. Paul Ryan and Kelly Ayotte have given me a solution, one that many of us have been ...
Pity poor "Saint Donald," assaulted on all sides by a vicious international "conspiracy" of "false smears" to malign his good name. Thankfully, with the grace of the Messiah, he will "take all of these slings and arrows, ...
It is not easy to step away from your entire party on an issue like their presidential candidate. Kelly Ayotte's decision to tell Donald Trump that enough is enough, and that he has lost her support, is telling of the true independent leader that she is. While Gov. Maggie Hassan is just ...
As I talk to voters around my district this fall, I ask them how their family is doing. I'm getting a consistent answer: "Things are OK, we're doing fine." The numbers bear out their sense of confidence. Incomes in New Hampshire are up, unemployment is among the lowest in ...
Even the most loyal Donald Trump voters will admit their candidate has a well-documented case of foot-in-mouth disease, which has done nothing but embolden their support for the brash New York billionaire. His recent bombastic language, however, about Hillary Clinton and the media rigging the ...
President Obama on Tuesday renewed the bold goal, first set by him in 2010, to send a manned spacecraft to Mars by the 2030s - "with the ultimate ambition to one day remain there for an extended time." The history-altering trip, if it happens, will be the result of an ...
Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan last week issued an executive order to establish a Drug Overdose Fatality Review Committee that, according to her office, would examine in-state data and trends related to overdose deaths. In studying these patterns, the goal is to properly allocate resources so ...
Government has long been criticized for being wasteful; however, federal, state and local governments recently set goals to reduce energy use and are making progress toward such goals. Recently, the Obama administration declared October as National Energy Awareness Month, a national effort to ...
It feels as if an earthquake rocked our presidential race since the release of the video tape of Donald Trump bragging about committing sexual assault. His comments certainly made me feel sick to my stomach as a father, husband, brother and son - even as an American, knowing this man can ...
As Hillsborough county attorney, I would welcome the opportunity to continue leading the excellent work of the county attorney's office for the another two years. These coming years will absolutely require the experience of proven leadership. The increased case load from the epidemic of ...