This weeks Merrimack Journal was actually the Bedford Journal. They called it the ‘New Years’ Journal, but with a few minor exceptions, everything in it was about Bedford. The letters to the editor were from Bedford. The news and sports…Bedford.
I’ve got nothing against Bedford but what are the folks at the Cabernet Press and the Telegraph (which owns them) thinking? Bedford! That would be my guess.
But there was one story on the front page that screamed Merrimack. Keith Hickey our Town manager–the guy who in his first year made a two-million dollar mistake when he put one million dollars in the wrong place (and yes, our tax rate went up because of it) has left for greener paychecks–I mean pastures, and the Town council is considering how to go about replacing him.
I have a suggestion. Go back to the Selectman form of Town government and use a budget committee instead. Yeah, it has its drawbacks, but then we don’t have to pay for a town manager who makes two million dollar mistakes and has to defend his choice of expensive hardwood for his office flooring.
The other non-Bedford story was about a new Democrat radio program on WSMN in Nashua. Former one-term, left-wing state Senators Peggy Gilmour (Nashua) and Bette Lasky (Nashua) having lost their government day jobs, decided to try their hands at a weekly Tuesday Morning Radio show called Granite State View. Is that ‘view’ as in "Wow, the view is a lot clearer now that Bette’s husband has picked up all those campaign signs that were blocking everyone’s view."
The signs in question were removed in violation of state law and as it so happens article 11 of the New Hampshire Constitution. Mr. (former state senator) Bette Lasky went uncharged so his right to vote was not be revoked nor was he charged, fined, or forced to endure weeks or months of bad publicity for his irresponsible (and lest we forget illegal) actions.
That does not preclude you, gentle readers, from calling in to the Granite State View to ask the former State Senator, and wife of unindicted election-law violator Elliot Lasky, her opinion on the matter.
As for the Merrimack-Bedford Journal, if we are lucky this week’s issue will have some content about Merrimack with perhaps one article about Bedford.
I’m not holding my breath.
