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Brookstone’s Failure Should Send a Message to the NH Legislature About Biomass Bailouts

by Steve MacDonald / 7 September 2018 22 September 2019

At the end of August, I shared an email from a reader. They suggested that New Hampshire’s choice of tax policies was somehow tied to a series of business failures (some pending), one of which was Brookstone, a niche specialty items chain that has corporate offices in Merrimack (ack-ack), New Hampshire. Brookstone is failing, yes. But is it …

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Apparently, Vicki Schwaegler didn’t like the information I included in rejecting the Biomass veto effort

by Skip / 7 September 2018 26 September 2018

That would be here due to the news that she actively politicking on overriding Gov. Sununu’s veto override on SB 365 and SB 446 instead of recusing herself from the efforts due to her family’s landholding. I was told that she decided to run again (originally she wasn’t) in no small amount due to getting the …

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Your NH State House – A Legislative Round-Up

by Carol McGuire / 11 January 2024 10 January 2024

This year started with two days of session to consider all the bills held over from last year. As usual, the consent calendar of 146 non-controversial bills passed on a voice vote, after five were removed. Those bills would be considered individually at the end of the session.

So Kids, What Did We Learn From Thursday’s House Session (1/4/24)?

by Judy Aron / 5 January 2024 5 January 2024

We learned that today we were able to finish up all of the leftover 2023 retained House bills and were successful in passing some really good bills… and killed some bad ones, too. It was a good two days!

Where Bill Gates Sells American Airlines The Brooklyn Bridge

by Steve MacDonald / 2 December 2023 1 December 2023

Bill Gates’s “Breakthrough Energy Ventures” has backed a startup called Graphyte that just pulled a George C. Parker on American Airlines. Parker was famous for selling the Brooklyn Bridge to rubes for large sums. As often as twice a week until, years later, he was finally sent to jail for life. We can only hope …

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So Kids, What Did We Learn From This Week’s House Session (10/26/23)?

by Judy Aron / 27 October 2023 27 October 2023

We learned that today was Veto Day! The House had on its docket 4 House bills that were vetoed by Governor Sununu. A vetoed bill needed 2/3 of those voting to override the veto. Otherwise, the veto was sustained. Because of the way the question to the House is worded, a “Yes” vote was to …

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Can Electricity Providers Promise 100 Percent Green Energy? Probably Not.

by Jane L. Johnson / 25 October 2023 24 October 2023

We expect the lights to come on when we flip a switch, unconcerned with how the electricity is produced or how it reaches our homes. We are aware of telephone poles, wires overhead, and transmission towers, solar panels, and windmills across the countryside. But as long as we pay our electric bills, we trust electric …

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Burgess Biopower: Upon Which I Wag a Finger at Kevin Avard and a Thanks to Chris Sununu

by Skip / 22 August 2023 22 August 2023

One of the ‘Grok mantras: Spank’em when they’re wrong and thank’em when they’re right. Generally, it’s Kevin getting the latter and Sununu the former. However, after years of elected representatives doing the Hidden Tax Tango and sending our monies to ‘burn” in the Burgess Biopower plant (whichuses low-grade wood to fuel its boilers to generate …

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Real Progress Versus the Progressives

by Lipton Matthews / 9 August 2023 7 August 2023

Depending on one’s perspective, technology can be viewed as either an opportunity or a threat. Some people celebrate technical advances, while others show disdain. Entrepreneurs are frequently eager to capitalize on the potential advantages of new technologies, but where entrepreneurs see room for dynamism, naysayers see doom.

Your State House: Licensing, Specials, Education, Gun Control, and Blaine Amendment

by Carol McGuire / 30 March 2023 1 April 2023

This week, I helped the Finance committee make sense of all the licensing provisions that the Governor had included in HB 2, the budget trailer bill. They agreed to pull all the sections recommended by ED&A (the OPLC – Office of Professional Licensure & Certification) structural changes already passed in HB 655; the new massage …

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