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State Sen Chandley raised just $5 in district

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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So Grant Bosse is advocating the same for the NH GOP as Obama actually did for immigration?

Smashing trash can lidGrant 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.

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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.  

Eastwooding The New Hampshire State Senate On Roll Call Votes

Eastwooding The NH Senate- Where are the Roll Call Votes?
Eastwooding The NH Senate- Where are the Roll Call Votes?

If party designations connote principles, and party pledges imply performance, and we extend that assumption to the relationship between electoral action and legislative response, then it should not be beyond the pale to expect the elected to provide proof of individual effort toward securing the principles and pledges upon which their election to office was presumably based.

And why do I care?  Apart from an obvious and general interest in politics, as a conservative, I’d simply like to see some regular and consistent evidence that those people in the state legislature who style themselves as conservatives are, in fact, voting like conservatives, without necessarily having to go through some other groups filter (or here-say) to arrive at a conclusion, one way or the other.

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Blue Hampshire Hits Reset Button on Democrat Cynthia Chase?

Blue Hampshire Resets Democrat Cynthia Chase
Blue Hampshire Resets Democrat Cynthia Chase

ALG’s Daily Grind at Net Right Daily is reporting the rantings of New Hampshire Democrat Cynthia Chase…with a Tweest!  OK, it’s actually an update.

The blog post from Rep. Cynthia Chase has been pulled down. In fact the whole website, BlueHampshire.com was completely reset today just as light was being shed on the questionable blog post from Cynthia Chase. Convenient. Fortunately, we have the cached version of her post so that her words will forever be documented on the world wide web.

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How convenient, indeed.

I wonder what else went missing from the keyboard of the progressive Democrat Cynthia “I moved here from Rhode Island” Chase?

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