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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

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BANFIELD: Public Ed – Six-Figure Salaries, Rising SPED Costs, and the Questions We’re Not Asking

February 3, 2026 Ann Marie Banfield

Six-Figure Salaries, Rising SPED Costs, and the Questions We’re Not Asking Across our state, SAU superintendents and administrators are paid six-figure salaries to lead public school systems that are supposed to serve all students well. Yet year after year, public confidence erodes, student outcomes stagnate, and special education (SPED) budgets continue to climb. At some … Read more

OpenTheBooks.com Matched the New York State Checkbook with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Campaign Donor Disclosures

August 29, 2020

New York the Empire State has financial issues. So, to see what kind of emperor New York has OpenTheBooks.com did a comparison. They matched the New York state checkbook with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s campaign donor disclosures. From 2014 to 2018, Cuomo solicited 377 state vendors.

California or Bust … and Go Broke

August 29, 2020August 29, 2020

California or Bust … and Go Broke. The Okies had it pretty much right. Today in the Golden State, 341,000 state and local government employees earn more than $100,000 in salary or pension payments. The statistics in this post come from OpenTheBooks.com and their article in RealClear Politics. Don’t worry; the HEROES Act will bail … Read more

Nashua School District Staff Should Not be a Protected Class

March 30, 2020 Op-Ed

On Friday, March 13th the Nashua Board of Education voted to provide full compensation to all district personnel for five days from March 16th to 23rd while shutting down the schools. There was no discussion of the cost to taxpayers as these funds were already in this year’s budget.