To the editor: In 1967, New Hampshire enacted a sales tax. It’s only on prepared meals, room and vehicle rentals. We pay 9 percent, which goes into state coffers – well, most of it. Businesses offering the aforementioned retain a…
To the editor: New Hampshire is a state I love. My family has lived here for more than 10 generations. Therefore, it truly saddens me that my own son and daughter are among a generation that is vanishing before our…
Let’s not just hope for a better and more civil 2018 but actively work toward making it happen
As we begin 2018, I have no doubt that many meetings will be held throughout New Hampshire and beyond. Meetings on: • What more can we be doing to curb the addiction crisis? • What else can we try? •…
Another severely cold winter shows the region’s need for more reliable supply
State is taking meaningful steps to resolve shortcomings
The distinguished former head of the State Police was a ‘trooper’s trooper’
Investments in cryptocurrency have become part of a get-rich-quick scheme
With apologies to the oft-parodied Dr. Seuss, who first wrote about the Grinch in a short (32-line) rhyming fable called “The Hoobub and the Grinch,” published in Redbook magazine in 1955 (Marlon Brando on the cover of that issue, by…
It’s wrong to think that the state can immediately transform itself into becoming ‘millennial-friendly’ through select actions
Recent tax bill is at odds with George Washington’s ‘farewell’ wisdom
Since the Reagan administration, the Republican Party has been enraptured by what the first President Bush called “voodoo economics” — the “theory” that tax cuts pay for themselves by boosting economic growth and tax receipts. Republicans have acted on this…
It has been said that budgets are moral documents, an expression of who we are and what we believe. When I build budgets for my home or business, I am doing more than math. I am making decisions that affect…
New Hampshire once shone as a national model for success, and it can do so again
At the end of the year, remembering recent losses of significant New Hampshirites
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