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EDUCATION
State education spending sees significant increase in compromise budget
Through a combination of one-time expenditures and increases…
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
50 years after start of anti-Seabrook protests, a turn toward nuclear power
If San Francisco tech bro hipsters invented a carbon-free way…
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
Film production incentives flop in state capitals
Dazzled by the allure of Hollywood, some New Hampshire legislators…
REGULATION
Rent control rhetoric vs. reality
Last November, Ontario’s government scrapped rent controls…
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Legislature’s budget imposes retroactive tax increase on N.H. employers
The legislative budget finalized on Wednesday and Thursday exposes…
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 […]
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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 […]