Nashua, New Hampshire fancies itself a “Welcoming City.” That’s a semi-Orwellian phrase for deliberately taking in more refugees than you can handle. The Gate City now has kids in the school system who speak as many as 50 different languages and not English. Getting here from there was easy. Getting anywhere else from here will be awkward and expensive.
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SDGANH: Achieving Transparency: How the Best Districts Do It – The End: Parts 11, 12, and 13
The School District Governance Association of NH (“SDGANH”) held a seminar this past Saturday on some best practices in how to make your School District more transparent in all of its procedures. This morning long session was a self-directed panel discussion consisting of Rich Girard from the Manchester School District, Tom Murray formerly of the … Read more
SDGANH: Achieving Transparency: How the Best Districts Do It – Parts 9 & 10
The School District Governance Association of NH (“SDGANH”) held a seminar this past Saturday on some best practices in how to make your School District more transparent in all of its procedures. This morning long session was a self-directed panel discussion consisting of Rich Girard from the Manchester School District, Tom Murray formerly of the … Read more
SDGANH: Achieving Transparency: How the Best Districts Do It – Parts 7 & 8
The School District Governance Association of NH (“SDGANH”) held a seminar this past Saturday on some best practices in how to make your School District more transparent in all of its procedures. This morning long session was a self-directed panel discussion consisting of Rich Girard from the Manchester School District, Tom Murray formerly of the … Read more
SDGANH: Achieving Transparency: How the Best Districts Do It – Parts 5 & 6
The School District Governance Association of NH (“SDGANH”) held a seminar this past Saturday on some best practices in how to make your School District more transparent in all of its procedures. This morning long session was a self-directed panel discussion consisting of Rich Girard from the Manchester School District, Tom Murray formerly of the … Read more
Belknap County Budgeting – financial hijinks?
By NH State Rep Mike Sylvia Did you ever wonder how politicians use statistics to sell their budgetary schemes? It’s the same old song and dance; lies, damn lies, and statistics. Perhaps your daily paper is reporting that the Belknap County Delegation has reduced your tax rate. Yay! Whatever you do, you should ignore the 2018 tax rate … Read more
SDGANH: Achieving Transparency: How the Best Districts Do It – Parts 3 & 4
The School District Governance Association of NH (“SDGANH”) held a seminar this past Saturday on some best practices in how to make your School District more transparent in all of its procedures. This morning long session was a self-directed panel discussion consisting of Rich Girard from the Manchester School District, Tom Murray formerly of the … Read more
Quick Shot: NH Democrats Dress in Traditional Klan-Colors to Protest Pro-Choice Governor
Governor Sununu gave his budget address yesterday. A number of New Hampshire Democrats dressed in the parties traditional klan color to protest their pro-choice governor. You read that right. Women in New Hampshire copied Democrat’s Klan-color “protest” from Trump’s State of the Union.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu’s Budget Address
Thank you — Good morning. Happy Valentines day. Mr. Speaker, Madame President, honorable members of the house, senate, and Executive Council and commissioners and department heads who have joined us today. My fellow citizens — Welcome. I would like to start by thanking the many Commissioners and state agencies we worked with throughout the past … Read more
Tales from the BudComm – the LSR is now a Bill!
For someone that has written about the legislative process for years, it is a much different viewpoint when you involve yourself directly in the sausage factory. No, I haven’t become a “factory worker” (a legislator) but a constituent that saw a flaw in the State Statutes (or “RSAs”) and decided “why NOT me” in proposing … Read more
“Who serves whom? Do the Townsfolk Serve their Employees?”
As I wrote here: “who serves whom? Do the townfolk serve their employees?” Let that set the table for this. It’s not quite a Tale from the BudComm but it has financial ramifications. If it passes. There will be a petition warrant on my hamlet’s ballot which would move the Second Session (the actual voting) … Read more
Tales from the BudComm – so, you’re taking orders from the Town Administrator?
The BudComm’s Public Hearing for both the Town and the School District budgets was last Thursday and that’s when the BudComm is officially done with its duties within NH’s SB2 governance model. The next step will be the two Deliberative Sessions: the First Session is when the Legislative Body (the town’s voters) get to ask … Read more
We Could Also Pay for The Wall If We Stopped Shoveling ‘Welfare’ at Illegal Aliens
On the odd chance that El Chapo’s billions don’t make an appearance at The Wall funding cotillion, there is another way. An unfortunate majority of illegal crossers end up milking US taxpayers for billions in services annually. Money that would be saved by the bushel if even a fraction of the invaders were deterred. Savings that would more than cover the cost of a border ‘wall.’
70% Of All Arrests in Durham, NH in 2018 Were UNH Students
Here’s a neat little factoid. According to the Union Leader, “of the people taken into custody (In Durham NH), 675 of the 968 identifiable parties arrested by police in 2018 were enrolled in classes at the university.” That’s almost 70% of all arrests? Have the budget boosters who pimp the fiscal benefits of taxpayer bailouts to … Read more
Josiah Bartlett: The State of the State is Hot!
Grok: We Need Your Help to Keep It That Way
New Hampshire Democrats come into power with a unique opportunity. The New Hampshire economy is screaming. The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, quoting the State’s annual report, notes that, “In 2018, New Hampshire was no.1 for economic opportunity (US News and World Report); child well-being (Annie E. Carsey Foundation), and, for the fourth year in … Read more
NH Democrat Susan Almy – Repeal Tax Cuts, Give Fiscal Committee Power To Tax at Will
Longtime New Hampshire Democrat Susan Almy is doing her part to raise taxes. She’s introduced a legislative proposal to raise taxes on job creators. But she’s also got a bill in the pipeline that would appear to give the Legislative Fiscal Committee taxing powers independent of the Legislature. NHBR is reporting that, Almy’s second bill would … Read more
Shutdown Is Game On as Trump Rejects Funding Bill Over Border Security Concerns
The morning news was replete with tales of a government shutdown averted. The Senate approved a short-term solution to keep some of the government open until February 8th. And no border wall funding. Sighs of relief from some, outrage from others. All spoken too soon. President Trump won’t sign it. He wants action on securing the border now. … Read more
Oregon Gov’s Kate Brown’s Budget Message – Time to Get the Hell Out Of the Beaver State
Governor Kate Brown’s proposed Oregon State budget looks like a progressive dream. She’s spending like a drunken sailor. Raising taxes and fees. She’s got a four million dollar line item for legal costs to fight with president Trump. Half of that money would go into an “Oregon Defense Fund” and pay for ongoing and forthcoming … Read more
Keene State College Enrollment Decline Repackaged as ‘Right-Sizing’
Keene State College continues to have enrollment issues. But on a positive note, they’ve made that problem (sort of, kind of) go away by renaming it. The perennial decrease has been relabeled. The ten percent of staff the college had to buy out to avoid firing them outright can rest easy knowing they were ‘Right-sized’ out of their jobs.
Democrat State Senators: Granite State Opportunity Plan – A State Budget That Works for Everyone
Yeah…..nope. Impossible and can’t be done for a few commonsense reasons I’ll list in a few minutes.
Unlike the Republicans (and I’ll talk about THAT in a few minutes, too), the Democrats have their plan and their bills all ready on the NH Legislative taxiway ready to take flight. Take a look at the list of the LSRs (Legislative Service Requests – ideas for bill to be put into “legislative-ese”. Note: your’s truly has asked my new House reps to sponsor one for me) – all kinds of spending, taxing….and behavior modification (yeah, you don’t behave according to them). The NH State Senators already have their overall plan, Granite State Opportunity Plan, in place (thanks to the helpless NH GOP, they now run the show) and plan on pursuing it hot and heavy.
It will be a disaster if they do and let me start picking it apart with the first part of it (other Groksters will be pulling other strings): A State Budget That Works for Everyone. A Pure Public Relations play – such a thing is impossible and they either know it and are lying about it or they really believe their crap don’t stick and don’t know that it does. Let us proceed with the fisking, shall we?