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COLQUHOUN: Taxpayers Are Paying the Cost

August 19, 2026 Laura Colquhoun

Loyalty within municipal government often carries a cost, and Nashua taxpayers are paying it without knowing how much. A review of Nashua’s payroll shows that municipal salaries are significantly higher than both the New Hampshire state average and national benchmarks. In 2024 payroll data, the average salary for City of Nashua employees is $84,948, which … Read more

SAU 3 Berlin – Trying To Mollify Me That A Card Catalog Isn’t What I Know It To Be (Parsing, Much Parsing)

June 5, 2026November 19, 2022 Skip

And a wee bit of “I know more about RSA 91-A than he does”. Well, perhaps – she’s a lawyer and I’m not. However, sometimes engineers, who must be MORE precise than lawyers many times, can read simple English used in writing such laws. I will give her an A for trying to move the … Read more

Do We Really Want To Get Our Leadership From San Francisco?

September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 Ian Underwood

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to powerful progressive politicians. There’s House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Governor Gavin Newsom. Yes, and don’t forget U.S. Senator and vice-presidential hopeful Kamala Harris. It’s producing a disproportionate number of influential political actors, all leftists.

The Best Ways To Upgrade Your Business This Year

May 4, 2020 Guest Contributor

It is important to always consider ways in which you can upgrade your business. You cannot expect to succeed and compete with other brands if you simply stay the same every year, especially when you consider just how quickly the landscape changes in terms of technology, trends, and expectations. This also makes it hard to … Read more

Say Thank You! The Vermont General Assembly Just Improved the New Hampshire Advantage

February 25, 2020 Steve MacDonald

By one vote the Vermont House overrode Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of a bill to arbitrarily increase the state’s minimum wage. Legislators, it seems, know better than job creators what any starting hour of labor is worth across every profession. That’s fine. They just did New Hampshire a huge favor.

January 2020 Increase is Best Monthly Gain in Private Payroll in 5 Years

February 5, 2020 Steve MacDonald

President Trump’s recovery continues into 2020. CNBC is reporting some impressive numbers for January, which is typically a month when businesses shed jobs added for Christmas. They’re calling it the best monthly gain in private payroll since May of 2015.

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U.S. private employers’ payrolls grew at the fastest pace in four months in August

September 5, 2019 Steve MacDonald

What is something you may not hear a lot about today? Good economic news. Details that deflate the Left’s dreams of a recession. The one they’d love you to suffer through if it helped them in the next election.

Still No Mention of $4.2 Million in New Payroll Costs to Run FMLI

September 26, 2018April 24, 2018 Steve MacDonald

As the New Hampshire Senate prepares to vote (down) HB628 the effort to hide the purposeful expansion of government under cover of a lousy Family Medical Leave Insurance “plan” goes unreported.

WMUR had an opportunity here but “opted out” which, by the way, is a lot easier when it comes to reporting on HB628 than it is if you try to avoid the tax on your payroll.