Sure, it doesn't have a lot to do with economics, public policy, and free market ideas, but hey, it's Super Bowl Sunday. Here's The Bleacher Report's review of The Ultimate Super Bowl Book.
Each of the 43 chapters (one for each of the Super Bowls played to date) describes each score in a page-turning narrative format (though often ...
Lynch Executive Order saves New Hampshire millions
(CONCORD) New Hampshire taxpayers have saved millions of dollars because of a partial spending freeze ordered by Governor John Lynch, according to the latest study from the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy. The report, issued today, shows that Lynch approved 24 additional waivers to the General Fund hiring freeze over the past three months, and has granted 632 exemptions in total over the past two years.Read More>>
By CHARLES M. ARLINGHAUS
(In Print Edition of Union Leader)
This week the Republican Party decided to have a press conference on spending and remind us why they are the minority party in the state. We have a fiscal crisis without question. GOP legislative leadership rarely has press conferences so this was no doubt going to be a significant initiative.
Oops. Rather than anything substantive, they sort of proposed an independent bipartisan review panel to review how many stimulus jobs were created. Apparently the president “promised” 16,000 jobs and the stimulus only created 2,000. Because they believe the stimulus money was wasted, the Republicans want the governor to waste money by establishing a commission to investigate.Read More>>
(CONCORD, NH) The federal government's Recovery.gov website claims that the stimulus package has funded nearly twice as many jobs as the most recent report by state officials. New Hampshire's Office of Economic Stimulus reported last week that money from the Americans Recovery and Reinvestment Act funded 776 full-time positions through the end of 2009. But the government's Recovery.gov database lists nearly 1,300 jobs credited to the stimulus in the Granite State. Both reports are still well short of the 16,000 jobs that the Obama Administration projected would be created or saves by the stimulus act.Read More>>
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich sits down with New Hampshire Watchdog and WNTK Radio to discuss Tea Parties, Scott Brown, and restoring Republican credibility on fiscal discipline.
(MANCHESTER, NH) Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says that he was wrong to endorse Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava in last November's special election in New York's 23rd District. Three days before the nationally-watched election, Scozzafava dropped out to endorse Democrat candidate Bill Owens, who narrowly defeated conservative challenger Gary Hoffman. Gingrich took heat from Tea Party organizers and conservative pundits who charged that he was abandoning conservative principles for a "Republican In Name Only."
"They were right," Gingrich declared in an interview with New Hampshire Watchdog and WNTK Radio.
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The Union Leader argues that New Hampshire voters should be allowed to choose tax caps in their communities, and the Legislature should give them that choice.Read More>>
The Union Leader has put Sunday's Under the State House Dome column back online, and this week Tom Fahey reports that the state's new health insurance plan written by bureaucrats isn't as low-cost as promised.Read More>>
Sure, it doesn't have a lot to do with economics, public policy, and free market ideas, but hey, it's Super Bowl Sunday. Here's The Bleacher Report's review of The Ultimate Super Bowl Book.Read More>>