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EDUCATION
The amazing bargain of the governor’s $1.5 million in aid to lower-income students
To help lower-income students at risk of falling further behind…
HEALTH CARE
A disease outbreak is a bad time to ban disposable plastics and paper
Forcing people to carry reusable food and beverage containers…
ENERGY
In the Feltes vs. Volinsky fight over natural gas, Feltes is right
The two candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for governor…
STATE BUDGET
Smokers, Mass. lawmakers may have saved N.H. businesses from tax hike
Cigarette smokers and flavored tobacco scavengers from Massachusetts…
TRANSPORTATION
A skeptic’s guide to commuter rail boosterism
SUMMARY: To promote taxpayer funding of a quarter-billion dollar…
TAXATION
Don’t celebrate dodging business tax hikes just yet
On Monday, the Josiah Bartlett Center reported on our website…
REGULATION
Why does it take 220% longer to become a cosmetologist than a police officer?
If you want to become a police officer in New Hampshire, you…
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Addicted to tax revenue: The potentially dangerous rush to raise the vaping tax
The state’s first vaping tax took effect on January 1, just…
BETTER GOVERNMENT
A new Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy study finds that switching to an online reverse auction for the state’s pharmacy benefits management contract can save New Hampshire taxpayers save up to $22.2 million a year. The study by Dr. Wayne Winegarden, director of the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific Research […]
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Eight police reform proposals
BETTER GOVERNMENT, FEATURED, LOCAL GOVERNMENTIn our republican form of government, all public employees, including police officers, exercise only the powers granted them by the people. All public employees serve the citizens and are accountable to them. The powers granted to public employees are altered from time to time as the people demand. High-profile abuses of police power in recent […]