Merrimack Election Results. (No!)

As an obligatory followup to this, here are the results from Merrimack’s Town Elections yesterday. New fire station- no Restore 3 public safety positions, no. Upgrade wastewater facility, no. Town budget, no.(default is 2 million less, more or less) Reinstate 2 firefighters, no. School budget, yes (it was less than last years). Teachers collectivist bargaining … Read more

The Cost of Defining “Adequate” In Merrimack NH

AppleA funny thing happened on the way to the ‘off-hand comment’ on the Merrimack TEA facebook page.  I was accused of not using "real and accurate data" and that my "rhetoric was not doing anyone any good."

Nothing surprising there I suppose but to stay on point–what was it I said that earned me such a response?

I announced that if you took the total Merrimack School budget and divided it by the total student enrollment that it cost more than  sending your kid to UNH.  This appears to have riled some people up.  In fact someone sent me a nice itemized list of the "costs" of sending your kid to UNH for a year just to prove I was wrong, and to justify how Merrimack’s cost per child wasn’t as much.

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Merrimack Starts A TEA Party

Former Merrimack Town councilor Mike Malzone has decided he has had enough. What tipped him over the edge? An 11 pm town meeting decision to implement pay as you throw after just about everyone had gone home.

Merrimack Wants To Vote On Gay Marriage

  By a 65-35 majority the voters of Merrimack would like the opportunity for a statewide vote on the question of gay marriage.   In other voting, the budgets passed-both less than the default, Chris Ortega and Shannon Barnes won the two open School board seats, Dwyer and Flood got elected to the two open town … Read more

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