Stimulus Job Numbers in Granite State Still a Mystery

The New Hampshire Office of Economic Recovery, the ad hoc agency constructed to oversee stimulus projects in New Hampshire, cannot say how many jobs the stimulus bill has created in the Granite State, despite President Barack Obama’s boast this week that the U.S. is “already seeing results” and that the stimulus has already “saved or [...]

Smoltz Has Rehab Start in Manchester

Hodes Turns to Reid for Fundraising Help

After a disappointing first fundraising quarter as a candidate for the U.S. Senate, Democratic Rep. Paul Hodes (NH-02) is turning to embattled Senate Majority leader Harry Reid for fundraising help. Reid will headline a June 3rd Hodes fundraiser in Washington, D.C., the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call is reporting.
Hodes is the only announced candidate [...]

Obama’s $80 Billion-a-Year Hidden Tax

Candidate Barack Obama promised not to raise taxes on those making less than $250,000 a year, but he rarely mentioned that if elected president he would effectively tax all Americans by supporting a carbon emission cap-and-trade tax program that would increase the price of gasoline by 74%, natural gas by 55%, and electricity by 90%.
In [...]

New Poll: Voters Skeptical of Federal Spending Plans

Republicans: Forget Gay Marriage, Focus on Economy

Gay Marriage Could Be Dead this Year

As NowHampshire.com reported yesterday, the New Hampshire House rejected modest changes to gay marriage legislation insisted upon by Gov. John Lynch by the slimmest of margins and instead voted to move the bill to conference committee and continue to negotiate with the Senate to come up with a final bill.
This is bad news for supporters [...]

SHOCK: House Rejects Lynch’s Demands

Just last week legislation legalizing gay marriage was on the fast track to Gov. John Lynch’s desk, where it would be signed into law, provided the legislature make modest changes respecting the freedom of religion. The Senate accepted the changes today but the House did not.
The Senate passed the changes by a vote [...]

Dems Misread News Events in Attack on GOP, War of Words Ensues

Give Victoria Bonney a break. The new Democratic State Party communications director is still settling into her job.
But that’s no excuse, at least if you ask her Republican counterpart Ryan Williams, for her evident misreading of a Foster’s Daily Democrat news item this morning, which Bonney attempted to turn into an attack on the [...]

Groups Asks Shaheen to Oppose Cap and Trade

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