Have you reached out to your town tax collector in the past month for a partial refund of your real estate taxes? Actually, have you ever looked at your itemized real estate tax bill to see how much of it goes to funding your local schools? It’s a huge portion of your taxes, trust me.
Still Wrestling with the Union Leader for NH’s #1 Online Print Media Portal
It’s fun to revisit this now and again, mostly because of the alarm it sounds in the hearts and minds of Democrats. How in the world could that (!#/*%$!) site be getting as much online traffic as the Union Leader? This won’t help, but sometimes we get more.
Smokers, Mass. lawmakers may have saved N.H. businesses from tax hike
Cigarette smokers and flavored tobacco scavengers from Massachusetts produced a surge of New Hampshire tobacco tax revenue that almost single-handedly prevented a business tax increase, preliminary, unaudited state figures suggest.
Bedford Resident Steve Kenda Announces Run for the New Hampshire House
For Immediate Release: July 17, 2020
Contact: Steve Kenda 603.488.5184
Bedford, NH – Steve Kenda filed to represent Bedford in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Returning to Bedford after a 15-year hiatus, Steve released the following statement:
If Your Local NH Public School Reopening Plan Doesn’t Fit Your Needs There Are Alternatives
The families of New Hampshire K‑12 students face a school-reopening predicament. For many, the plans of the local public school will not fit well with their needs and preferences for education and health. Parents need to know that there are multiple alternatives:
The Science Supports Your Right to Choose to Wear a Mask or Not
Every day it seems more and more people are jumping on the mask-wearing bandwagon, even as cases drop in New England. Sure, Texas and Florida cases are rising (not as alarming a rate as the mainstream media portrays, and more on that next time) but how is that relevant to New Hampshire?
Hey, New Hampshire – Here’s a Summary of How The Democrat Majority Legislature Voted this Session
Note – look at each vote total and ask yourself “Who Chooses”? Does this diminish MY right to choose for myself or does it enhance the State’s Power in making those decisions for me (i.e., reducing my Liberty and Freedom and others deciding “it’s good/best for you that WE decide”)? -Skip
We’ve come a long way since the Governor Approved Temporary Remote Instruction
Op-Ed: On January 29, 2020, long before the public was aware of COVID-19, the Department of Education provided its first Health Alert to school leaders about a developing health concern.
Niki Kelsey Announces Run for New Hampshire State Representative – Hillsborough 7, Bedford
I am thrilled to announce my candidacy for the New Hampshire House of Representatives as a Republican for Hillsborough District 7, representing the residents of Bedford.
Governor Sununu, Don’t Pass HB 685 To Find Out What’s In It
As the legislature wraps up in Concord, Governor Sununu contemplates whether to veto HB 685, a bill that started its life as an innocuous ambulance billing provision and morphed into a policy that would shutter faith-based employers and lead to years of litigation.
Towns can now Tuition Students to Religious Schools
In 2017, the Town of Croydon implemented a town tuitioning program. While getting approval from the State Board of Education, it was told that no religious schools could be included in the program.
Petition: “No government nor organization at any level should be able to mandate the public to wear face masks”
If you like online petitions and you do not like being forced to wear a mask, then this is for you. “No government nor organization at any level should be able to mandate the public to wear face masks” from – Petition at WhiteHouse.gov.
Setting Realistic Expectations for School Reopening
Following a challenging and unique spring, school officials across New Hampshire are working hard through the summer to prepare schools to reopen this fall. Last week, the School Transition, Reopening, and Redesign Taskforce (STRRT) submitted high-level recommendations to the Department of Education and the Governor.
NH State Senator Jeanne Dietsch’s Homeschooling Disrespect A Problem for NH Parents
New Hampshire, we have a problem, and it should concern every one of us.
By now, you’ve probably heard Senator Jeanne Dietsch’s (D-Peterborough) unfortunate, derogatory comments about working-class families in New Hampshire.
N.H. Democrats have found new ways to define ‘germane’ to finish the Session out
This week [actually, last week – I’m late again -Skip], the N.H. House had the second, and last, of the unique sessions this year that were designed to accommodate our capitulation to the pandemic. We held it at the Whittemore Center. Unfortunately they didn’t have the Zamboni running to clear the arena.
Memorandum of Law for The State – The Constitutional State of New Hampshire vs. the statutory “state” of New Hampshire
The State, the State of New Hampshire, was established by the people inhabiting the territory formally called The Province of New Hampshire. This “State” was established by its early inhabitants, who created a written document; a social compact called the Constitution of New Hampshire.
Register Now for 603 Alliance Candidate Training July 11-12
The 603 Alliance will be holding another two-day training for Republican State Rep candidates on July 11-12 from 9 AM-4 PM (both days) in Ashland, NH. The training will cover the fundamentals of running a successful campaign for State Rep.
N.H.’s tax credit scholarships must include religious schools, U.S. Supreme Court confirms
The June 30th U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue demolishes once and for all the false claim that New Hampshire’s Education Tax Credit Program violates the New Hampshire and U.S. Constitutions.
We Need a New Declaration of Independence
Early Americans criticized their king’s rule with the memorable slogan “no taxation without representation” and decried His Majesty’s efforts to suspend their legislatures, altering fundamentally the forms of their government by imposing an arbitrary power structure instead.
ReopenNH – Independence Day Celebration at State House
EAST DERRY, N.H.—With many communities around the state canceling traditional Independence Day celebrations, parades, and fireworks displays on July 4 this year for spurious reasons, ReopenNH is calling all patriots to celebrate American liberty together at the New Hampshire State House from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday.