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New Hampshire Firefighter unions object to Josiah Bartlett Center study on pensions

By Admin / July 18, 2011 / News / No Comments

By Grant Bosse on July 18, 2011
Albert McKeon reports in the Nashua Telegraph on the legal challenges to New Hampshire’s new pension laws, and includes the Josiah Bartlett Center’s latest study on the unfunded liability in the New Hampshire Retirement System.
The Josiah Bartlett Center of Public Policy released a report that gave an overview [...]

RGGI Compromise would link N.H. participation to Mass.

By Admin / May 31, 2011 / News, State Government / No Comments

By Grant Bosse
New Hampshire Watchdog
(CONCORD) A compromise amendment to maintain New Hampshire’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative would repeal the program entirely if and only if Massachusetts chose to pull out of the carbon dioxide cap and trade system. Senator Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro) would prefer to repeal [...]

N.H. may be the next ‘Right to Work’ state

By Watchdog Staff / May 11, 2011 / News, State Government / No Comments

By Paul Kersey

New Hampshire is on the verge of becoming the 23rd right-to-work state, after House Bill 474 there cleared the House by a solid 225-140 margin. The bill, which would ensure that individual workers have the right to join or refuse to join a union and have the final say on union dues, [...]

Mortgaging the Future

By Grant Bosse / April 28, 2010 / News / No Comments

By Grant Bosse
New report outlines $75 million in borrowing from NH Gov. Lynch Budget Plan
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(CONCORD) The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy today released a new report examining how Governor John Lynch would use new borrowing to postpone the state’s budget crisis. “Mortgaging the Future: Can New Hampshire borrow its way to [...]

NH House and Senate GOP Call for Independent Bipartisan Stimulus Review

By Watchdog Staff / February 1, 2010 / News / No Comments

Press Release from New Hampshire House & State Republicans:
Despite Spending Millions In New Hampshire, Stimulus Has Failed to Create the 16,000 Granite State Jobs President Obama Promised

CONCORD – New Hampshire House and Senate Republicans today called on Governor John Lynch to establish an independent, bipartisan panel to review Stimulus spending in the [...]