I needed to drop you a quick note to alert you to the crisis the impending New Hampshire legislature could create for Christians. Right now, our majority leaders in Concord are using the confusion of the COVID crisis to trample on all due process in their advancement of new bills.
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The Principles of Taxation
What are the principles of taxation we should follow? It’s our system we should have a voice, right? Come let us reason together. An appropriate tax system is one raising revenue only the core functions of government require. The fundamental principles of our neutral and effective tax system are: Simplicity: The tax code should be … Read more
Sunshine Week Should Be About Government and Media Transparency
March 15th to March 21st is Sunshine week. It is an annual affair designed to focus on protecting, expanding, ensuring transparency from the American Government. An ideal we live for and work to protect. But what about media transparency?
Paging Senator Feltes! Better Call Your Office!
Whoops! Senator Dan Feltes’ campaign has been running ads with blatant lies…. and NHPR caught him in the act! NHPR: Feltes Says He’s Not Taking ‘Corporate Contributions,’ But Records Show Otherwise Senator Dan Feltes, a gubernatorial hopeful, has been running ads railing against PAC and LLC donations. The trouble is, he’s been taking them himself … Read more
State Sen. Chandley Raised Only $5 In District
Campaign Finance Reports! Yay! (Sarcasm, sort of.) There is usually a lot of material that comes out of campaign finance reports for State races, which we’ve written about before. Yesterday’s filings show that one NH Senator, Shannon Chandley, raised only $5 in district. Five bucks. Related: SoS Website – Search Filed Reports That doesn’t include … Read more
Nashua: Public officials are required to perform due diligence before they commit public funds.
As a professional project manager, I know what a Feasibility Study is supposed to accomplish. Look at defining requirements, research them, make recommendations, evaluate risk, and provide contingencies. Along the way, you look at costs, human resources, vendors, insurance, liabilities. Essentially, you uncover all the rocks and make sure you have done your due diligence. … Read more
Congressman Chris Pappas, What Have You Done?
Most of us back home have come to see the federal government as dysfunctional. More than a few of us have used the word abusive in talking about the government? Congress is utterly unable to balance the budget. In fact, we have not actually had a budget for 23 years. And Chris Pappas is part of that failure.
Londonderry Old Home Day Committee -Spending Taxpayer Dollars Without Transparency
The Londonderry Times has a long but important piece on a pressing issue in that town. The special privilege enjoyed by their Old Home Day Committee (OHDC). It seems the OHDC gets to spend tax dollars without any of the usual transparency and reporting requirements.
My Turn: Can we make SATs and college admissions more transparent?
by Frank Edleblut, NH Commission of Education | College Board recently changed the SAT to include a context score, commonly referred to as an adversity score, to better reflect the effect of socio-economic disadvantages in the assessment outcomes. This adversity score will take into account 15 socio-economic factors in an attempt to scale results for … Read more
AG Barr Appoints John Durham
The Associated Press ( https://apnews.com/75e5c4efd5c74e6e9aa1ba0237a0e651 ) and New York Times ( https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/us/politics/russia-investigation-justice-department-review.html ) are carrying stories reporting that Attorney General Barr has appointed the U.S Attorney in Connecticut, John Durham an investigatory task. He is charged with the duty to investigate the origins of the Russia investigation. This is to include whether or not the … Read more
SDGANH: Achieving Transparency: How the Best Districts Do It – Parts 9 & 10
The School District Governance Association of NH (“SDGANH”) held a seminar this past Saturday on some best practices in how to make your School District more transparent in all of its procedures. This morning long session was a self-directed panel discussion consisting of Rich Girard from the Manchester School District, Tom Murray formerly of the … Read more
SDGANH: Achieving Transparency: How the Best Districts Do It – Parts 7 & 8
The School District Governance Association of NH (“SDGANH”) held a seminar this past Saturday on some best practices in how to make your School District more transparent in all of its procedures. This morning long session was a self-directed panel discussion consisting of Rich Girard from the Manchester School District, Tom Murray formerly of the … Read more
SDGANH: Achieving Transparency: How the Best Districts Do It – Parts 5 & 6
The School District Governance Association of NH (“SDGANH”) held a seminar this past Saturday on some best practices in how to make your School District more transparent in all of its procedures. This morning long session was a self-directed panel discussion consisting of Rich Girard from the Manchester School District, Tom Murray formerly of the … Read more
SDGANH: Achieving Transparency: How the Best Districts Do It – Parts 3 & 4
The School District Governance Association of NH (“SDGANH”) held a seminar this past Saturday on some best practices in how to make your School District more transparent in all of its procedures. This morning long session was a self-directed panel discussion consisting of Rich Girard from the Manchester School District, Tom Murray formerly of the … Read more
SDGANH: Achieving Transparency: How the Best Districts Do It
The School District Governance Association of NH (SDGANH) held a seminar this past Saturday on best practices to make your School District more transparent in its procedures. The morning long session was a self-directed panel discussion. It consisted of Rich Girard from the Manchester School District, Tom Murray formerly of the Windham School Board, and … Read more
Achieving Transparency: How the Best Districts Do It
A panel of current and former school board and budget committee members will talk about their transparency successes. There will be plenty of time to take questions from the audience. This event is designed to benefit elected school district officials, but the public is also welcome, subject to space availability. Register here via email. Achieving Transparency: … Read more
Daddy, What are taxes for?
Function: The proper function of taxation is to raise money for core functions of government. It is not the function of taxes to direct the behavior of citizens. Closing the budget gaps created by overspending too is a misuse of taxation. This is true regardless of the size or level of government. Taxation always imposes … Read more
Executive Council District 4: “I don’t need to do anything to win because I’m Ted Gatsas!” – Part 2
“HAVE A QUESTION FOR TED OR AN IDEA FOR THE CITY OF MANCHESTER?“
Previous post on Ted Gatsas insularity here. I say that because it turns out that I haven’t been the only one trying to reach out to their campaign to arrange a debate between him and Jane Cormier. Same result – no answers or blow offs. You’d think that the Gatsas campaign, with all of his experience as a former NH State Senator, a former Manchester Mayor, and a former Republican candidate for Governor, he would be enthusiastic to show his expertise. C’est la – I guess it isn’t to be. The silence is deafening.
In my last post, I posited ““what can you do for Ted instead of what Ted will do for you”. Well, that may be true as his website as I said before, is rather slim of details. How slim, you might ask? Let’s look at the front page of his website, shall we?
So Grant Bosse is advocating the same for the NH GOP as Obama actually did for immigration?
Grant is the Editorial Editor for the UL and with his latest missive, he’s both right – and horribly wrong. First for the good part (reformatted, emphasis mine; his editorial after the jump):
Where’s the big tent? NH Republicans hurting themselves
As a Republican’s Republican for the sake of the Republican Party (he leans more GOPe than Liberty) to say that the NH GOP and elected officials are off the rails is quite the stretch (careful Grant or they may revoke your hall pass!). He’s correct in that the NH GOPe Republicans hurt themselves but often doesn’t bring what really ails them to the attention of the general public.
GrokTALK! – Do You Want Parents Engaged or Not?
In part two of our interview with Ann Marie Banfield we continue the discussion on parental rights, education transparency, and the duality of education experts that claim they want parents engaged but then embrace policies and curriculum that keep them disengaged.