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ROPER: Vermont -The Best Place to Live, People Are Fleeing

July 21, 2026 Rob Roper

Does CNBC’s “Best States” ranking make any sense? Yogi Berra famously said of a once favorite Yankees hangout, “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” I feel like there’s a way to tweak that phrase regarding Vermont’s just winning CNBC’s “Best States to Live” for the sixth straight year: “Nobody wants to live there anymore. … Read more

MACDONALD: Are Dems Holding Out for Shutdown Stockholm Syndrome?

October 25, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Dems squandered weeks of opportunity to address issues that were important to them. DHHS has a budget, and renewing the over-inflated, over-reaching COVID tax credits in the Unaffordable Care Act could have been part of those negotiations. Instead, they demanded it, along with some other crap, and held the entire government hostage. And that’s a … Read more

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Poll: COVID Comes in Dead Last among America’s “Worries” but is The Damage Already Done?

May 18, 2022 Steve MacDonald

The headline from CNBC isn’t precisely what you’d expect. “Inflation Is Top Problem Facing America, with No Other Issue Coming Close.” The product of a Pew Research Poll, the results measured a dozen “concerns” from guns and violence to school, healthcare, racism, and COVID.

NH Democrat Party Comes Out of the Closet on Family Medical Leave – Admits it is an Income Tax

December 22, 2024August 11, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Democrats love taxes because they love spending. There’s no such thing as enough spending or taxes to pay for it. To that point, Massachusetts is taxing remote workers in New Hampshire. CNBC asked Gov. Sununu about it, and the NH Dems decided to make it about their Family Medical Leave Bill.

Deep State Leaker Convicted – Could Get 10 Years in Federal Prison

February 22, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Female Soviet spy gets cozy with a Federal employee. Maybe they become their boyfriend or girlfriend. They date, do dinners, get busy, share secrets. National Security secrets. Spy novel stuff that these days look more like this. A female reporter dates a federal employee and he leaks secrets to her.

Volinsky and Feltes the Marxist Wunder Twins

Volinsky and Feltes’ “False Narratives” About New Hampshire Take Another Punch to the Gut

July 12, 2019July 12, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Democrats Dan Feltes and Andrew Volinsky want to be the next Governor of New Hampshire. Job one is to paint New Hampshire as doomed and Governor Sununu as the villain. Not an easy task and CNBC just threw another gut punch to their narrative.