Starting Saturday morning at 9 am!
As usual, this week’s broadcast version of GraniteGrok and AnkleBitingPundits brings an array of items and guests for your consideration– ALL STARTING AT 9AM! As always, thanks to the technical wizardry and analytical skills of Skip, if you are beyond the broadcast area of Newstalk 1490 WEMJ, simply click here for instructions on how to connect and listen on the Internet via livestream. (Podcasts here)
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All politics is local– While the names & places may change, you just KNOW it’s going on somewhere else… Skip and Doug discuss the local town and school budgets, what they accomplish… or don’t, and what happenes when the additional warrant articles are added in. We’ll also discuss the pros and cons of the new police department expansion/renovation proposal.
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Matthew Murphy is a director with the NH Advantage Coalition, a taxpayer advocacy and watchdog group that works with local activists to limit government spend and send the message to elected officials at all levels that low taxes are a direct result of low spending. The NH Advantage Coalition is also working to prevent the implementation of new broad-based taxes. Raised in Hampstead, Matthew is a longtime conservative political activist, prior to joining the New Hampshire Advantage Coalition was the director of Granite Staters for Employee Freedom. (Fighting EFCA).
With town warrant article writing season upon us, Matt will discuss what shenanigans to expect from the pro-tax and spend crowd and how to best fight the broad-based taxers. We’ll discuss how to place a tax cap articlle on YOUR ballot.
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Drew Cline has been editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader since October of 2001. His writing has appeared in more than 100 newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and National Review.
We’ll discuss bailout mania, and how rail has its hand out like everyone else, and why they should get nothing.
Is fining PSNH and other utilities for extended outages really a good idea? Apparently there’s at least one lawmaker (A Republican, no less) that thinks so. Sheesh!
And finally, Mr. Cline views our low gas tax part of our NH Advantage, mirroring our feelings about the subject here at the ‘Grok. We’ll find out why now is exacly NOT the time to be raising gasoline taxes in the Granite State. I have a novel idea– let’s just stop WASTING the money we’ve already got!
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Doug and Skip at the movies. As you might have guessed, Skip went to the doggie movie, and I went to the Nazi movie. Neither of us were disappointed.
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Time permitting, we’ll have yet another word about the goings-on at Belknap County government, and the Republicans and their involvement. With "friends" like these…