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At a public hearing last week on a proposal to help the Claremont School District weather the storm of an unanticipated $5.1 million deficit, it was obvious House Republicans want no part of it.
The Marconis only learned of the investigation after several individuals were subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury and questioned repeatedly about Geno Marconi, with inquires suggesting possible financial wrongdoing or conflicts of interest.
Presidential immunity is the law of the land, the restraints are gone. The confounding element is to see people voting against their own best interest.
In the ensuring 30 years since the Claremont I and Claremont II decisions were released by the state Supreme Court, little has changed in a meaningful way.
Had enough? Aren’t you just emotionally exhausted? Maybe we really have unwittingly become two countries: Red and Blue.
NH’s minimum wage matches the federal level which is $7.25 an hour ($15,500 annually if one works 2000 hours). NH is the only state in New England that still uses $7.25 as its minimum wage. Only fourteen other states join NH in this scrimiest of the scrimy status.
Three days before the Clamshell Alliance peaceably occupied the nuclear plant construction site in Seabrook in 1977, Governor Meldrim Thomson issued an inflammatory statement.
One of the hallmarks of the enemy Dad helped to defeat, Nazi Germany, was its utter suppression of free speech, its total control of what was broadcast, printed or spoken about the regime. People died in that war so that we could continue to enjoy this essentially American freedom.
A frequent refrain heard around the State House is “Government should operate more like a business.”