Source: Ashooh backed Lynch’s LLC Tax while on BIA board

A source close to the situation tells NowHampshire.com that defense industry lobbyist and Republican candidate for Congress Rich Ashooh approved of the Business and Industry Association’s endorsement of the Democrats’ LLC Tax last June. The source asked to remain anonymous
Ashooh, a Bedford Republican, voted in favor of supporting the Democrats’ budget, which included the recent [...]

UPDATE: Almy wants “reasonable compensation” set as $50K per year, gave away more than that to “leftwing” causes

The House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing Thursday on a measure, HB 1607, to define “reasonable compensation,” the amount of compensation that will be exempt from taxation under Gov. John Lynch’s new LLC tax, at $50,000 per year.
The measure is sponsored by committee chair Susan Almy.
But Almy may be a uniquely flawed [...]

Hodes misrepresents his record to voter in Exeter

While touring downtown Exeter on Monday with state Sen. Maggie Hassan, Democratic U.S. Representative and Senate hopeful Paul Hodes appears to have misrepresented his voting record to a potential constituent.
When asked by Mr. Dan Chartrand, a bookstore owner, why Congress was so quick to bailout Wall Street but slow to bailout “Main Street,” Hodes agreed [...]

Controversial polling firm raises eyebrows in Connecticut

Moore Information, a Portland, OR-based polling firm that was ensnared in one of the most peculiar side stories of New Hampshire’s 2008 Republican presidential primary, and which is still under investigation here in the Granite State, is now making news in Connecticut for producing surprising polling results.
The poll, conducted on behalf of former-WWE CEO Linda [...]

Business groups vie for influence

The painter and the local pizza parlor have a new voice in the Legislature. But do they need one?
Former Republican state senator Bob Clegg, a lobbyist for Legislative Solutions, recently founded the Small Business and Small Industry Association.
“It’s designed to have a voice in Concord for all the small businesses that now don’t seem to [...]

State loan guarantee to NH newspaper called “thought control” on Glenn Beck Show

“What is the paper going to come out for when there is a race against a politician who favors their subsidy?”

State bails out Claremont Eagle Times with loan guarantee

Kevin Landrigan of the Nashua Telegraph reports on a decision this week by the state’s Executive Council to guarantee a loan of $250,000 to a bankrupt newspaper that is now owned by an out-of-state media company.
NowHampshire.com has inquired as to whether the newspaper will be covering Executive Council races in the 2010 election. We [...]

Political class floored by Union Leader’s ‘print only’ decision

Reporters, political operatives from both parties and observers of news business trends are floored by the powerful New Hampshire Union Leader’s decision to take the bulk of its premier political reporting offline and turn it into print-only premium content.
The Union Leader, the famously conservative paper that has been the bane of many Democratic politicians’ existence, [...]

POLL: 69% of Granite Staters say stimulus has been unsuccessful in creating jobs (Updated)

A new poll shows a significant majority of Granite Staters believes President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly known as the stimulus, has been unsuccessful in creating jobs in New Hampshire.
The poll, conducted exclusively for NowHampshire.com by CrossTarget, shows that sixty-nine percent of respondents believe the stimulus has been unsuccessful in creating jobs. [...]

Nashua business lends goods, and hands, to ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’

When Stefan Hausberger of ski shop Egon Zimmermann Sport Chalet in Nashua received a call from the sister store in Hanover about a potential charitable donation, he had no idea what he was getting into.
Less than a week later, Hausberger and his wife, Rena, found themselves painting and building a desk with Ty Pennington [...]

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