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As usual, this week’s broadcast version of GraniteGrok and Now!Hampshire.com 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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An amendment to HB 183 will, if passed, protect existing spending caps and will allow citizens the right to vote for a budget control charter amendment that would provide another layer of local government accountability for taxpayers. Matt Murphy checks in with the details.
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Transparency in stimulus? Not in Belknap County. Why it matters to YOU.
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Former Senator George Lovejoy could be called one of the "founding fathers" of the modern taxpayer movement here in the Granite State. At present, he is the honorary chairman of one of our favorite groups, the New Hampshire Advantage Coalition. This week, he penned an excellent piece about the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade Energy tax in which he wrote,
Cap and trade will provide us no discernible progress against climate change; a business government has no business being in. It will place an unreasonable financial burden on average American families who rely on economic stability which relies on businesses ability to succeed; Cap and trade offers neither.
We’ll get the latest. Time permitting, we’ll ask him what he thinks conservatives must do to begin the fight to retake New Hampshire.
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Robert Bestani, frequent ‘Grok contributor and a candidate for the Republican nomination for NH’s District 1 House seat, presently held by Carol Shea Porter, joins us in studio for guest/co-host duties. Mr. Bestani is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects at Stanford University. As a resident of Newmarket, NH he is the Chairman of both the Municipal Audit and Energy Committees and serves as a member of the Municipal Budget Committee. He is also a member of the Republican State Committee and Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Rockingham County Republican Committee. Bob also served in the U.S. Department of the Treasury during the first Bush Administration (GHWB 1989-1992). His principal responsibilities included: the G-7 negotiations.
Among the topics we’ll cover:
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Job Creation Issues including – economics, finance, trade, banking, banking regulation, etc. Budget matters too.
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Energy Policy
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Foreign Policy – especially as it relates to Asia and the Middle East. Bob spent 14 years of in these areas. He speaks Arabic.
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