ISSUES
EDUCATION
Why Education Savings Accounts should not trigger property tax hikes
A report by the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy and…
HEALTH CARE
Expanded Medicaid’s permanence
The case advocates make for reauthorizing expanded Medicaid is…
ENERGY
Winter is coming (and it’s going to be expensive)
The election is 25 days away and the nation’s greatest political…
STATE BUDGET
DCYF funding and state business tax cuts
Executive summary: Funding for the state’s Division of Children,…
TRANSPORTATION
Attack of the Turnspike
It’s been a decade since New Hampshire increased turnpike tolls…
TAXATION
Brace for business tax increases in 2019
The incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee…
REGULATION
The minimum wage is virtue signaling
As of July, the average hourly wage for private employment in…
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Wayfair and the New Hampshire Advantage
Recently retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy,…
BETTER GOVERNMENT
January 2017 By Michael Sununu Among the many drivers of unsound public policy in this day and age, perhaps the most odious is the alarmism over changes in climate that are supposedly driven by human activity. Time and again, we have seen costly, unjustified, and economically destructive public policy implemented in the name of climate […]
State employees to save $1 million a year after Janus ruling
BETTER GOVERNMENT, BLOG, FEATUREDThe top two contributors to the re-election campaign of U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., in this quarter are public-sector labor unions: the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). Each union has given Rep. Kuster $5,000 this quarter (not 5,000 quarters). And until June 27, each […]