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PUC’s Energy Efficiency Decision Is Shortsighted
As Joni Mitchell sings, “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone,” and she might as well be singing about the state’s energy efficiency program.
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January House Sessions Will Be in Manchester With and Without Masks
The House will not be meeting in Representatives Hall when it reconvenes next month to act on vetoes and retained bills.
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N.H. Legislature Sliding Down Slippery Slopes
The phrase intends to heighten the sense of foreboding for future action if one little step is made. The 2022 session of the legislature will have many examples of paths leading down that slippery slope.
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Political Landscape Is Not As Pretty As The First Snow
Although the governor said there is no gerrymandering in New Hampshire when he twice vetoed bills forming independent redistricting commissions, he must not have looked at what is now Executive Council District 2 which also stretches from the southwest corner of the state to the southeast while picking up Democratic strongholds along the way from Keene, to Concord to Dover and Durham.
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Now Is The Worst of Times
Happy Thanksgiving and pass the Moderna please. Last week New Hampshire hit its all-time high for active COVID-19 cases, approaching 8,000.
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Heading Down a Slippery Slope to Vigilantism in N.H.
The German government in the 1930s passed a law that required individuals to report anyone who spoke against the Nazi party, its leaders or the government.
Maine Referendum Seeks End To Transmission Line
Not that many years ago, a similar fight consumed New Hampshire as Eversource and Hydro-Quebec teamed up to propose Northern Pass, which like New England Clean Energy Connect, would have conveyed about 1,200 megawatts of large hydro-power to Massachusetts.
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Tax Structure Key to Affordable Housing in NH
It should be noted, the report’s author is Jason Sorens, of the Center for Ethics in Society at Saint Anselm College, and a founder of the Free State Project.
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Living In Interesting Times
Two of the Republican Executive Councilors, David Wheeler and Joe Kenney, suggested the state should prohibit private companies from requiring employees to be vaccinated much like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has done.
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Escaping Consequences Is Happening Too Frequently
Elections have consequences is an adage that has been repeated often since the 2020 election in New Hampshire and nationally.