A Quick Post-Mortem on the Hooksett Special-Election

Some random thoughts. On the positive side, the vote was close. Apparently, Axelman lost by less than 40 votes: … and first-time candidates typically don’t win their first race. On the other hand, SNHU was on spring-break. If not, drive-by voting by non-resident college students likely would have boosted Martins’ margin of victory to several … Read more

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Who Wants A Tax Cap?

If we rely on our elected or appointed officials (aka, the “elites”) to restrain spending of tax dollars on their own volition, we are kidding ourselves.

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Who Will Win the Democratic Primary Race?

What crazy political times we live in. Even the pundits can’t keep up. In 2016, after virtually every poll favored his opponent by a few points, we elected the underdog. The TV newscasters were stunned and speechless. How could the pollsters have gotten it so wrong? Was their sample size not representative enough of the … Read more

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Is Gilford seeing public employees politicking at the polls?

Posted as received with a bit of REALLY light editing. ********* From: Kevin Leandro Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 12:25 PM Subject: RSA 659:44-a Electioneering by Public Employees To: Richard Grenier <ragsbar26@gmail.com>, <Gus.Benavides@nemoves.com>, Dale Chan Eddy (dale.eddy@aflglobal.com) <dale.eddy@aflglobal.com>, Dale Chan Eddy (shockwave@tarnover.us) <shockwave@tarnover.us>, Board of Selectmen <BoardofSelectmen@gilfordnh.org>, Scott Dunn <sdunn@gilfordnh.org>, <mcgonagle@metrocast.net> Gentleman, In June … Read more

Upcycle Clothes

Five ways to upcycle your clothes

We need to take care of our environment, not just for ourselves but also for our children and other species with whom we share our planet. So it might be that you’ve got a pile of clothes you no longer wear or like and, instead of throwing them away like you normally would, you want … Read more

The Education ‘System’

You never hear people talking about ‘the food system’.  Why is that?  Because there isn’t one.  I mean, we have the USDA, which mostly exists to make it harder for smaller producers of food to compete with larger producers of food.  But there is no Secretary of Food, no Commissioner of Food, no Food Czar, and so on.

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Gun Control in NH

7 Gun Control Bills to be Voted on by Full NH House

From the Women’s Defense League Legislative Alerts There are several gun control bills that the full NH House of Representatives will be voting on this week. Please contact your legislator or the entire legislature and ask them to vote Inexpedient To Legislate!!!! Some bills were ones the house didn’t get to last time they were … Read more

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