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EDUCATION
Senate bill would redirect money for lower-income scholarship kids to higher-income college grads
A bill before the Senate Ways and Means Committee next Wednesday…
HEALTH CARE
How N.H. could save millions in drug costs with an online auction
On Thursday, a coalition worthy of a wacky ensemble buddy comedy…
ENERGY
Transportation and Climate Initiative a bad deal for New Hampshire
The regional cap-and-tax scheme called the Transportation and…
STATE BUDGET
Stabilizing business tax rates at last (for two years, anyway)
Throughout 2019’s prolonged budget debate, two competing claims…
TRANSPORTATION
A skeptic’s guide to commuter rail boosterism
SUMMARY: To promote taxpayer funding of a quarter-billion dollar…
TAXATION
Lonely (for now) legislators push sales, income taxes
A bill to tax sales of electronics in New Hampshire made news…
REGULATION
A 2020 priority: Protecting N.H. from unlicensed art therapists?
The Legislature opens its 2020 session on Wednesday, and among…
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Film production incentives flop in state capitals
Dazzled by the allure of Hollywood, some New Hampshire legislators…
BETTER GOVERNMENT
The 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 […]
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Janus ruling reversed years-long growth in state employee union membership
BETTER GOVERNMENT, FEATUREDLast year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFCSME triggered a 5.9% reduction in New Hampshire state employee union membership, state payroll data obtained by the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy show. The sudden drop reversed a years-long trend of rising union enrollment in state government. Prior to the Janus decision, New Hampshire […]