Warrant Articles Archives

Fixed That Petition for You…

March 23, 2025 Ian Underwood

Many of you saw a petition warrant article on the agenda at your recent town meetings. The idea was to get towns to vote to send the petition to the legislature and the governor. It’s kind of a silly idea — if you’re going to tell your representative something, you should do that as an … Read more

Merrimack Valley School District – “We Need to Do Better for Our Children”

March 2, 2022 Op-Ed

These three petitions were submitted to be added to the Merrimack Valley School District Warrant. The meeting is to be held on March 4th, Penacook High School, and starts at 7 pm.

It’s Almost Town Meeting Time in NH – And Petition Warrant Article Machinations Have Already Begun

February 12, 2022February 12, 2022 Skip

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

Seelye Longnecker MVSD School Board Chair

A Suggested Warrant Article Regarding School Boards For Your Consideration

December 21, 2021 Skip

I dunno about you but I am tired, at School Board meetings, in asking my Elected Representatives questions about the operation and Policies of the District. As long time readers know, it’s now personal – I’m fully invested as the Grandson is now in Kindergarten. And we, TMEW and I, are responsible for raising him … Read more

Fraud on Gilford Voters at Election Time

February 27, 2020 Norm Silber

What is fraud anyhow? We hear the terms “fraud” and “fraudulent” thrown around a lot, but it is likely that many, if not most, people do not really understand the full meanings of the terms. In the law, fraud is (1) the intentional misstatement of; (2) a material fact; (3) with the intention that the … Read more

Tales from the BudComm – The “two bites at the apple” edition

January 17, 2020 Skip

Last night, again, was the public hearing for the Town and School District; my previous post covered the discussion of getting the Budget Committee to endorse siphoning off peoples’ tax monies to “charities” that live off government tax monies (else they’d go belly up). This was is about the School Board trying to have their … Read more

Merrimack School Board Tyranny – What Voters and Parents Want Doesn’t Matter

May 8, 2019 Steve MacDonald

This looks like fun. Merrimack has a “homework doesn’t matter” policy. Teachers can assign it, but it is not graded. It doesn’t count. So, why do it? Residents petitioned a Warrant to make it count, and the voters passed it. The Merrimack School Board has chosen to ignore that.

Goodies from the 2013 Warner Warrant

September 26, 2018March 12, 2013 Steve MacDonald

I thought Dems and Progressives were all “Trees – Not Towers” all the time: Article 12 Shall the Town vote to authorize the selectmen to enter into a 5 year lease agreement, with an automatic renewal for four (4) automatic give (5) year terms, with AT&T to locate a tower (on town owned property on North … Read more