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EDUCATION
A conversation about the Espinoza ruling with Tim Keller and Kate Baker
On June 30, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Espinoza v.…
HEALTH CARE
A disease outbreak is a bad time to ban disposable plastics and paper
Forcing people to carry reusable food and beverage containers…
ENERGY
Study estimates N.H. cost of Green New Deal at more than $74,000 per household in first year
Two weeks after a supporter of the Green New Deal won the New…
STATE BUDGET
Against federal guidance, Fiscal Committee transfers relief funds to state budget
In a surprise motion, the Legislature’s Fiscal Committee voted…
TRANSPORTATION
A skeptic’s guide to commuter rail boosterism
SUMMARY: To promote taxpayer funding of a quarter-billion dollar…
TAXATION
Don’t celebrate dodging business tax hikes just yet
On Monday, the Josiah Bartlett Center reported on our website…
REGULATION
Impose $200 million in PFAS cleanup costs with no idea what the benefits are? Whatever
Sometimes, the bills everyone is afraid to vote against are the…
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
New Hampshire’s economy spent March and April of 2020 rapidly contracting. Cell phone data and reported restaurant and retail store revenue show that consumers voluntarily began staying home in the early March. Then on March 27 the governor issued a stay-home order and ordered “non-essential” businesses closed to in-person interactions. That one-two punch put nearly […]
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An online reverse auction can save N.H. up to $22.2 million a year on prescription drugs
BETTER GOVERNMENT, BLOG, FEATUREDA 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 […]