Guest post by NH State Senator, Jeb Bradley
Thanksgiving has come and gone and Christmas is just around the corner. The Holidays come quickly and there's so much to do to get ready, but is New Hampshire ready for the budget problems awaiting the Legislature’s return to Concord in January?
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NH Department of Revenue to “Hear” Rules for NEW LLC Tax
You may remember that at the 11th hour during the budget battle this past June, the Legislature, with the blessing of Governor Lynch, instituted a new tax on Limited Liability Corps. (LLC’s), by extending the dividends tax to them [...]
President Kim was more forceful today in apprising people of the serious budget difficulties that the College faces in the coming years. Cuts are on the way and they will be big. Though buckets of whitewash were used to explain how we got to where we are, President Kim did [...]
President Kim's road show on the College's budget woes is now in high gear as he and Steve Kadish impress the gravity of the financial situation upon faculty and staff. Today's open meeting will be but a reprise of the information that they have communicated to' [...]
Filed under Government Spending.
I had a meeting of our Town's Budget Committee last night as we were completing our review of the municipal budget - we start in on the School Board side in a couple of weeks. I was talking with another of the members, new this [...]
Here is the recording of the Budget Committee (before, during, and after):
Here is Doug Lambert's resignation letter:
Addressed to Richard Hickok, Chair, Gilford Budget Committee:
Please accept this letter as official notice of my resignation from the Municipal Budget Committee effective immediately. Given my recent inappropriate and hurtful remark [...]
One year ago today, the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy launched the Watchdog Project, promising to bring investigative journalism back to New Hampshire government. Over the past year, we've provided the best coverage of the state budget, the JUA lawsuit, and New Hampshire's implementation of the stimulus package.
The budget process continues to resemble a group hug, with everyone invited to join in and, I guess, buy in. Provost/Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt and Kim Majordomo Steven Kadish seem to believe that everyone will pull together to make major sacrifices for the good of the institution... This [...]
In light of the recent New York Times piece on ROTC in the Ivy League -- in which the College was not mentioned -- let's take a look at our ROTC program, of which I am a current member. I have previously written about ROTC [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports that next year's state budget problems will likely be larger than this year's.
Short-term budget gaps have battered states as revenues plummeted during the recession. Aided by about $250 billion in funds from the stimulus package expected through the end of next year, states managed' [...]
Tom DeRosa asked me to stop by for the NH GOP's weekly podcast. We discussed the cost of downshifting, from the Congress to state budgets, and from the state to local taxpayers.
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(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' [...]
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 [...]
Forget the endowment. It has done extraordinarily well over the past two decades: right now, it is almost five times as high as it was in 1991.
In fact, there is only one number that really counts in understanding Dartmouth's current budget nightmare: staff salaries and benefits.
In the 1998' [...]
I ended my last post this way:
Now add in the $103,000 rise in health insurance that we just learned about, and I start getting antsy. Sure, the Town Administrator has assured us that no change to the bottom line of the budget will happen - that's nice to hear....but I [...]
Well, if you've been watching, you know that I've been live streaming the Budget Committee main meetings on Thursday here on GilfordGrok. No, the quality may not be of this highest, but given that it is just a $100 webcam that's 3 years old, I'm not complaining. At some point,' [...]
As the former Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Senator Gregg continues to have opinions about how and how much of our money should be spent. A few things to keep in mind when reading his remarks are:
1) The federal government is not like a family [...]
Lots of talk about the urgency of our budget difficulties from President Kim below and from the Trustees, but it looks like there is going to be an extended effort at "consensus management" rather than immediate and firm decision-making in response to the financial challenges facing the College.
Meanwhile, as [...]
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