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Steve Mac Donald Blog: NH Bails Out?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:47:02 -0500

Why is the State of New Hampshire providing taxpayer backed loan guarantees to a Newspaper in Claremont? And what does it mean for the reporters and editors beholden to New Hampshire politicians for their jobs? They were out of work until the state came around and the Executive Council [...]

Steve Mac Donald Blog: Girls Night Out

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:43:25 -0500

Never actually connected to the people millionaire Jeanne Shaheen got elected to the US Senate to some degree on the coat tails of the change rhetoric that ushered in Mr. Obama. But much like BHO we are discovering that the sales pitch was nothing but a sales pitch. It was [...]

Little Green Blog: Not the best, just the most available.

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0500

"Oh", he said. He scrawled a quick note, and slid the sheet back into the folder. He put the f***ing sheet back into the folder. Right f***ing in front of me!

If there is one thing corporate recruiting has taught be, besides the value of adjectives [...]

Granite State Pundit: Ralph Peters doubts we will hear ...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:50:00 -0500

Ralph Peters doubts we will hear the words "terrorism" or "Islam" when President Obama visits Fort Hood.

The FBI and the military knew that Major Hasan was in communication with a U.S.-born, radical Islamist cleric now living in Yemen. They ignored it.

We just, as [...]

Blue Hampshire: Open Thread: Leading with Integrity

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:05:44 -0500

Joementum 2004:
This is an Open Thread.

p.s. Adam Krauss has a blog. I just put it on the Roll, and removed DiStaso.
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Blue Hampshire: Even Judd Gregg Admits: A GOP Filibuster is Unpossible

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:43:13 -0500

I praise the Senior Senator from New Hampshire for being able to count better than the conventional wisdom on health care reform:"If this bill is in any way near the form it came out of the House...we will definitely try to filibuster it," Gregg says during a telephone interview [...]

Joe's Dartblog: Sylvia Spears Reads the Riot Act*

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:40:00 -0500

An undergraduate friend reports:

A few days back I was in a meeting between Sylvia Spears and a group of students. She was regaling us with a tearjerking anecdote about walking into a room full of colleagues right after she had been selected Acting [...]

Joe's Dartblog: Blanchflower Calls Wright Incompetent

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:32:47 -0500

We have reached a point in Hanover where Victorian gentility is the norm -- and candor is shocking. Therefore it is nice to be joined in seeking to tell the unvarnished truth by faculty luminary Danny Blanchflower, a household name in Great Britain, about whom we have posted [...]

Free State Blogs: Mayor-elect Gatsas reacts to possible bond default

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:10:00 -0500

(MANCHESTER) Mayor-elect Ted Gatsas says Manchester taxpayers and budget writers won't be on the hook if the bonds on the Verizon Wireless Arena default. The current State Senator and Alderman, and incoming Mayor reacted to the Josiah Bartlett Center 's report that changes in the state budget could prevent' [...]

GraniteGrok: Buckles tries again...FAIL

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:12:59 -0500

As Doug has posted here, Jeb Bradley and John Stephen had a Presser today in Concord. In effect, it was a NH Republican shot across the Socialist Ship of State known as the Obama Administration. It seemingly hit, and hit well - it certainly raised the ire of one [...]

GraniteGrok: Impending Train Wreck: Pelosicare to Cost NH 1.2 Billion Dollars in 10 Years

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:58:27 -0500

State Senator Jeb Bradley, Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta, former HHS Commissioner John Stephen talk health care and the impact Democratic proposals will have on NH.

Earlier today, a key group of New Hampshire's Republican leaders, led by State Senator Jeb Bradley and former Health [...]

GraniteGrok: The "Clipboard People"

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:47:13 -0500

We, being political bloggers, go to LOTS of political events - this last Presidential election was almost non-stop. We found at almost every stop, the "Clipboard People" were present - and pretty much all on the Left side of the spectrum.

Now, we're known to turn a good phrase or' [...]

Blue Hampshire: JoeCare

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:44:22 -0500

But one aspect of The Holiest Man in Washington's JoeCare plan, six years ago:When I'm President, we will treat the problem - with a real prescription for change.

It's an outrage today that 9 million American children are uninsured. I'll provide coverage to every child with a new plan called [...]

GraniteGrok: Gambling is not the answer to N.H. spending woes

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:13:45 -0500

Guest post by Jeff Chidester

As New Hampshire continues to spend itself into bankruptcy, there are those who believe the answer to our financial woes rests in the false promise of gambling.

Gambling is nothing more than gasoline to be thrown on the fire of irresponsible spending; and [...]

Blue Hampshire: Facebook Governor Sarah Palin

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:55:47 -0500

Has it ever occurred to the traditional media, and various linkbaity elements of New Media, as they breathlessly report every missive about death panels from her Facebook page, that Sarah Palin, once a heartbeat away from a Republican presidency, has no more real power than you or I?

The internet is [...]

Blue Hampshire: Two Hours Away, Three Hours on Line in the Cold

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:48:06 -0500

That's what I had to do last Saturday to get an H1N1 vaccine for someone I know in a high risk group.

With no guarantee, after all that time waiting in the windy, thirty degree cold at the other end of Vermont, that they wouldn't run out of doses before we' [...]

Free State Blogs: WMUR tackles downshifting in Health Care Bill

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:48:00 -0500

WMUR's Josh McElveen reports on opposition to the Pelosi Health Care Bill because of its reliance on state budgets to pay for many of its mandates.
The question of what it could cost states has piqued Gov. John Lynch's interest. He spoke with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about his [...]

Blue Hampshire: Reward Good Behavior

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:28:21 -0500

Just as a reminder: both Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes have challenging races on their hands, and both of them had the courage not only to vote for health care reform, but also against C-Street Stupak's vile pro-sepsis* amendment.

This is about as perfect a moment as any, I think, to' [...]

Free State Blogs: Right to Know Oversight Commission

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:30:30 -0500

Here are the October 29, 2009 Meeting Minutes from the NH Right to Know Oversight Commission.
CNHT does not believe that our current RTK law (RSA 91-A) needs to be tampered with.
Often commissions are set up to ’study’ an issue with the result of new laws or changed laws.
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Little Green Blog: One Wheelock and McLaughlinization

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:12:00 -0500

One Wheelock, née Lone Pine Tavern, is opening for business on the 12th and I'm rather excited to see how it will turn out. Particularly, I'm curious what kind of food offerings it will have that Lone Pine was not able to produce with reasonable cost efficiency. [...]