Small town literature drop
Went out this morning with two other town committee members to do our part for the 50 state strategy. We didn't get a whole lot accomplished, but we had a good time. We were driving along the main...
View ArticleCan't govern (posted at Democracy for NH)
As I have been watching the events in my community, Northwood, as the tax cutters attempt to govern, I have been trying to figure out what lessons we can learn from this. We all tend to panic when...
View ArticleNH Patriot's Day Flood
10 am - ish April 16 This has been a fairly terrifying morning. It rained and blew all night, with the tall trees all around our house swaying in the northeast wind and this morning I tried to make it...
View ArticleWhere are the hurricanes?
I just finished reading Chris Mooney's Storm World and it left me wondering where all the hurricanes were last year and this year? The book is about the science and politcs of climate change and...
View ArticleHow a political ad can backfire
When the Hillary ad about trust, where the father tells about calling Sen. Clinton's office and getting the hospital to waive payment for his son's treatment, started airing locally, I turned to my...
View ArticleOur first farmers market
We held our first community farmers market yesterday afternoon. There are markets in other local communities here in south central NH, but none in our town of under 4000 people (that does jump to...
View ArticleWhat about Palin's judgment?
I think it might be a good idea to focus on Palin's judgment in accepting the offer, as well as McCain's judgment in offering it. Any reasonably sane person with her level of experience would have...
View ArticleNHDP chair gets hate speech for his birthday
Ray Buckley is the chair of the NH Democratic Party. He is openly gay, and he had a birthday this week. This is what he got for his birthday: After his radio show "Meet the New Press" ended today,...
View ArticleThank God the cabin burned down
Today NH celebrated Granny D's 100th birthday with a celebration at the NH State House. Governor Lynch declared it Doris "Granny D" Haddock Day and letters from many political figures were read,...
View ArticleDailyKos poll is missing something
I was talking to my Congresswoman last night. Carol Shea Porter is the BEST representative that I have ever had or could imagine. She reminded those of us who joined her for a Valentine's Day party...
View ArticleDon't tell me that climate change
isn't real. I am writing this from myiPhone because we have no Internet at home. Our power is off, lines down on the road leading to our house.
View ArticleHelp us in New Hampshire
Something really strange and terrifying happened in NH in the November election. We went from being a non-crazy libertarian sort of state that was moving nicely into progressivism to a completely...
View ArticleLegislating from the bible in New Hampshire
This interesting, weird and rather scary interchange began with me sending an e-mail to each of the members of the NH House Judiciary Committee who had an e-mail address listed. I almost immediately...
View ArticleHearing on marriage equality today in NH! And a win (temporarily)!
Representatives Hall at the NH State House is filled and I hear that 99% are against repeal. There is a live stream of Twitter comments here .I am hearing from friends who are there. While several...
View ArticleHow extreme is the NH legislature?
I was going to go through the entire list of bills introduced in the NH House of Representatives this year, but I got about half way through and ran out of steam. So I will just present a bunch of...
View ArticleComing out of the closet...as a Democrat in NH
I was at the supermarket today and was approached by a fellow townsperson who has kids in elementary school. She informed me that “we” needed to get hold of people and let them know that a couple of...
View ArticleAbout the "job-killing" agenda - whose is it anyway?
In NH and around the country, as well as in DC, we hear over and over that cutting government budgets, getting rid of all that "job-killing" spending, will create lots and lots of private sector jobs....
View ArticleNullification Day in NH
One of my friends got a bee in her bonnet about the repeal of our participation in our regional greenhouse gas program, RGGI , and in the process started exploring the Free State Project, which I...
View ArticleDisabled, mentally ill, send them to Siberia!
Andy Smith, UNH's right-leaning pollster, had an interesting comment quoted locally this week:There’s a popular myth about the N.H. Legislature, says Andrew Smith, associate professor of political...
View ArticleMarty Harty resigned, but hasn't really left
Marty Harty may have resigned but his ideas are still being implemented, and joked about by House leadership:Yesterday, [NH House Speaker] O'Brien continued to show reckless disregard for the offensive...
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