Mark Warden

Breaking: Manchester now using the “pity me, for I am an orphan now”

(That old joke of killer found guilty of murdering his parent – “Have mercy on me for I am now an orphan”).  So, Mayor Joyce Craig’s Administration screwed up not once, but TWICE, found guilty, but is looking for a stay of the Judge’s order to Manchester to either put Mark Warden’s name on the … Read more

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Hundreds of state employees quit union after Janus

(And at least one was not forced to join one – ME!) (reformatted, emphasis mine) ******** Last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFCSME triggered a 5.9% reduction in New Hampshire state employee union membership, state payroll data obtained by the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy show. The sudden drop reversed a … Read more

Budgets

Tales from the BudComm – white hats or black hats?

Or alternatively: Is your town budgeting for RansomWare? That’s when hackers infiltrate an entity’s computer network and take complete control over all of the IT assets and then, like a human hostage, hold them up for ransom (“pay us $XXXXX or your files will be encrypted by us forever”). The next on my list of … Read more

Is a stealth financial “lock up” starting to happen?

I do look at CNN, mostly for the business side as their presentation of the markets is better than some of the others.  There, I saw this post and started scratching my head as I haven’t seen this anywhere else in the “general issues” sites that I visit.  I’m not a financial geek and I’m … Read more

Palate Cleanser – amusing, over and over again

Yeah, back again.  Complete disk failure on the old laptop so I’ve been offline for a few days.  Is there such a thing as “the online DT’s?”? If so, I got them so I’m glad to be back after looping, over and over, trying to get those disk sector errors under control.  Didn’t work – … Read more

Budgets

Tales from the Budcomm – the last season

Yep, after three three-year terms, this is the last budget season for me based on a promise I made to TMEW.  New members are on-board, sub-committees member assignments are done and the scramble to set appointments with the department heads is already in gear.  By the middle of January, each budget for each municipality and … Read more

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