On a recent episode of Goffstown state Rep. John Burt’s cable access show, O’Brien explained one of his top priorities now that he’s freed from the burdens of being speaker. It’s “to make sure that those individuals who have run as Republicans this term vote as Republicans and are identified in upcoming primaries,” O’Brien said.
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As mandated by New Hampshire law, Governor Maggie Hassan will deliver to the legislature her recommended 2014-2015 budget on Thursday. She faces serious challenges. It is her first budget and she had less than two months to build it. Combined with the financial challenges facing the state, it is unsurprising that she chose to work […]
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By now it should be no secret to the New Hampshire news-reading public that newly-elected 2nd District Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster – who has a net worth of nearly $2 million – has trouble paying her taxes. WMUR broke the story on Monday, reporting that Kuster owed close to $11,000 in unpaid property taxes, both […]
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As our state’s elected officials begin to debate the issues facing Granite Staters and New Hampshire’s business community, I would ask them to keep in mind the challenges we have all faced in recent years. In particular, small businesses and independent contractors continue to struggle under unnecessary government regulation and worry about their jobs and […]
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This week marks what would have been civil rights activist Rosa Parks’ 100th birthday. While this centennial and Black History Month will understandably spur remembrances of her important life and work, I also hope it will serve as an opportunity for a new generation to learn about the real Rosa Parks and not the myth […]
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Attention Granite Staters: NH Journal has officially launched its 2013 NH legislative issues survey. From gambling to gun control to immigration to the budget, give us your thoughts on these critical state and national issues and we’ll report the results. Battle lines are being drawn but our elected officials haven’t heard from us – don’t […]
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Most repeal efforts in Concord these days are more about ideology and symbolism than they are about sound public policy. In too many cases laws are being reversed before they are given a chance to work, or the repeal seems motivated by grudges against former House Speaker Bill O’Brien and his pet causes.
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Among the most highly anticipated items in Governor Maggie Hassan’s upcoming budget address is whether she will include expanded gaming as a major piece of the next state budget. For the first time New Hampshire has a governor that is genuinely supportive of expanded gaming but just how deep her support runs is undetermined. Should […]
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(Note: The following is a revision of a post I wrote in August, 2011, the last time the NH GOP changed chairmen. Most of it still applies so I post this update.) Congrats (or something…) to Jennifer Horn, who becomes the eighth chairman of the NH GOP in nine years. As someone who served as […]
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This Saturday, New Hampshire Republicans will gather to select a new chairperson of the New Hampshire Republican Party. Both candidates are good people and whether Jennifer Horn or Andrew Hemingway is selected, the new chair will confront enormous challenges. The new chairperson is inheriting a political infrastructure suffering from a lack of continuity. Horn or […]
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