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Thirty-One School & Supervisory Districts Reject Town Meeting Budgets
The total number of known Vermont school districts and supervisory unions that rejected proposed school budgets at Town Meetings now stands at 31.
Hartford Has An Activist Problem – Now They Know About it
Warner: Hartford Has An Activist Problem – Now They Know About it
Martin Luther King Jr. famously said:
“Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’
Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’
Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’
But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’
Restoring SB2
There are still a lot of towns in New Hampshire that gather every year for Town Meeting. In a crowded room, all your neighbors raise their hands and say yeah and nay in front of everyone else. It could always get contentious, but in today’s political climate, you could get branded or targeted. There’s a cure for that.
HB-1175: Another Attempt to Repair SB2
To set the stage: Town meetings are dominated by the people who receive, benefit from or massage taxpayer loot. The “official ballot referendum town meeting” or SB2 procedure took away from town meetings the power to make final budget decisions for the upcoming year.
A School Hijacking, Amanda Leslie of Croydon? Hardly, and Stop Making Kids Your Political Pawns
A headline in the UL yesterday read, “Amanda Leslie: Undo the hijacking of Croydon’s schools.” My retort is that the “hijacking” was done, not by those who showed up, but by those that didn’t bother to show up.
Croydon School Board Meeting – How a Work Meeting Turned into a Rantfest
I have never seen anything like this and I’m probably never going to see this again. Thumbnail: At this past Saturday’s Town Meeting, the townfolk voted to HALF the School District Budget from $1.7 million to $800,000. Let that set in.
It’s Voting Day Here in NH (For Most SB2 Towns, Anyways). GO VOTE!
And just to draw the ire of those on the Left who constantly have the words “misinformation!” or “disinformation!” on the tip of their tongues – don’t worry, it’s next week (smirk).
The Flag They Want to Vote on for My Town is “Modern” and Soulless
Gilford has an unofficial flag right now. It’s not really “New Hampsha” based but to me, this whole idea of replacing it is yet another attempt to replace history that shouldn’t be done.
Bonds Most Effective Way to Protect Current Taxpayers
Once again this year, on many towns’ ballots, we will find numerous warrant articles asking voters to place monies in “capital reserve funds” — much coming from what is often referred to as “surplus fund balances” or “unexpended fund balances.”
It’s Almost Town Meeting Time in NH – And Petition Warrant Article Machinations Have Already Begun
Here in New Hampshire, we have the old style town meetings where everyone in a town gets together to hammer the final budgets for the town and schools spending. There’s generally a bunch “warrants” (or articles or questions) about all kinds of sundry things like appropriating money for new equipment like police or fire vehicles, … Read more
Hudson NH Thinks That Blindly Sending Out School District Ballots Is a Swift Idea?
I am just agape at what another Loyal Reader just sent me. Apparently, the School District in Hudson has decided to blithely just mail out their ballots to everyone in town.
If Andru Volinsky wants to Cut Property Taxes, He Should Become a School Superintendent
Andru Volinsky, a candidate for governor of New Hampshire, has a problem understanding how property taxes are paid in the Granite State. He has lived here long enough to know that property taxes are paid at the local level and we have had, for several hundred years, Town Meetings where annual budgets are voted on by the citizens who pay their share – as our State Constitution demands.
The ‘someone’ was me
In today’s Concord Monitor fish wrap, Meg Heckman, a lovely young woman and competent reporter wrote about the goings on at Warner’s Town Meeting Wednesday night.
It was a pretty straightforward recitation of Warner’s headlong rush from ‘freedom to freebies’ (Thanks. Skip. Great phrase) and then she writes:
‘A proposal to set aside $15,000 to help offset town employees’ health insurance deductibles also met with some resistance.
“Are you kidding me?” someone shouted from the front row.
After a ballot vote, the article passed, 67-41.’
It’s for the children
I’m sure Mr. Cohn misunderstood, Deerfield teachers are prohibited from ‘striking’:
Town Meeting Tomorrow
For many, if not most of us, tomorrow is Town Meeting day where we vote on school and town budgets, local government officials, planning and zoning regulations. Town meeting is government up-close and personal and is where of many us fail to effectively use our voices and our votes. Town meeting is where things like … Read more