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HB 1704 would turn every town hall in New Hampshire into a contract circus. Those of us who run local government day?to?day – town and city managers, select boards, councils, aldermen – are not exactly known as automatic allies of organized labor.
The Free State Republican/Libertarian in charge of our state responded to the 3-3 Tax Savings Plan with a death threat against me and a denial of service attack against our website (still being investigated).
Some time in the future, people will look back at the first six years of this decade and wonder what drug lawmakers were on when they passed these laws.
On February 11, 2026, the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on HR38 – a resolution directing the committee to investigate whether maladministration has occurred at the highest levels of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Here is what the documented record shows.
The Ayotte administration believes it would be best for New Hampshire not to guarantee its children receive a worthwhile education.
The real plan has been cut taxes and that has been what Republican majorities in the Legislature have been doing with the blessing of former Gov. Chris Sununu and current Gov. Kelly Ayotte, who in her State-of-the-State address received a knowingly cheap applause line with her call for no new or increased taxes.
Hundreds of community members braved the cold and snowy weather on Saturday afternoon at town hall to protest the proposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility at 50 Robert Milligan Parkway.
Radical NH Republicans are trying to crush public education, the foundation of our democracy. Their approach is to attack education from all sides banning books and curriculum, challenging staffing, and undermining funding.
In a recent article State Representative Jim Kofalt defended HB 1811 which would eliminate state vaccine mandates for school and daycare attendance, well, sort of. In his argument against vaccine mandates Rep. Kofalt made two points to support the bill; one philosophical and one a comparison of America to other nations.