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ISSUES
EDUCATION
Croydon grandparents sue over state law that bans religious schools from tuition program
A Croydon couple on Wednesday filed a civil rights lawsuit against…
HEALTH CARE
Mask mandates and the urge to control
Portsmouth’s City Council approved a mask mandate on a 7-2…
ENERGY
The wrong policies could bring California’s rolling blackouts to New Hampshire
Energy policy is often described in moral terms, with “green…
STATE BUDGET
Smokers, Mass. lawmakers may have saved N.H. businesses from tax hike
Cigarette smokers and flavored tobacco scavengers from Massachusetts…
TRANSPORTATION
Transportation and Climate Initiative a bad deal for New Hampshire
The regional cap-and-tax scheme called the Transportation and…
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 […]