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ISSUES
EDUCATION
The Education Tax Credit Program: Fact vs. Fiction
New Hampshire’s Education Tax Credit Program is under fire…
HEALTH CARE
Expanded Medicaid’s permanence
The case advocates make for reauthorizing expanded Medicaid is…
ENERGY
Study: Renewable Portfolio Standards raise electricity prices substantially
Renewable Portfolio Standards increase electricity costs more…
STATE BUDGET
Concord’s expanding black hole
Scientists on Wednesday revealed what they claimed was the first…
TRANSPORTATION
Attack of the Turnspike
It’s been a decade since New Hampshire increased turnpike tolls…
TAXATION
New Hampshire dawdles as two-thirds of states move to collect online sales taxes
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last June in South Dakota…
REGULATION
Five reasons Gov. Sununu was right to veto paid family leave wage tax
On Thursday, Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a Democratic bill to impose…
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Brace for business tax increases in 2019
The incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee…
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 […]