Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Gov. Ayotte Mistaken About Nuclear Power
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Governor Ayotte is advocating for more nuclear power in New Hampshire, suggesting that doing so would lower electricity rates. However, customers pay bills not rates.
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Governor Ayotte is advocating for more nuclear power in New Hampshire, suggesting that doing so would lower electricity rates. However, customers pay bills not rates.
By Rep. David Preece, D-Manchester
New Hampshire’s latest financial report tells two very different stories. On paper, the State of New Hampshire received a clean audit for Fiscal Year 2025. Everything is accounted for. The numbers add up. The books are “accurate.”
But accuracy is not the same as stability.
When it comes to something as precious and irreplaceable as eyesight, there is no room for uncertainty, no room for shortcuts, and no room for error.
Should you trust justices who worked for years to overturn the constitutional principles established in NH’s School Funding Cases to now sit “impartially” in judgment on those same principles?
Recently, Rep. Travis Corcoran (R-Weare) made statewide news, but not in a good way. He posted on X: “We need a final solution for theater kids in politics,” in response to an invitation to a legislative karaoke night hosted by Rep. Jessica Grill, who is Jewish.
There was one prominent group opposing both bills, the Koch Foundation’s Americans for Prosperity, and following its lead, the Free Stater jihad led by House Majority Leader Jason Osborne.
The political climate in New Hampshire took a dark turn this month as lawmakers were in the middle of the last year of the current two-year term.
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).