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Immigration Policy
Immigration Reform is like eating an elephant, its best leaving it alone. We have a system that appear to work, abet poorly.
- rich
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Top 2 Primary System
The basic idea of top-two primaries is good. Candidates from all party preferences to no party preference would be on the same primary ballot, and all voters would vote in the same primary with… read more
- Tiani
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Legislative Process
The NH State House of Representatives is the largest state legislative body in the United States. Each of its 400 members represents an average of 3,309 citizens. If the US House (435 members)… read more
- TOPH
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Marijuana Decriminalization
hi, i think the state of colorado is an example nh should follow. i am not a professor or law enforcement, i am an example of someone that benefits from occasional marijuana use. i have had 2 head… read more
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Gambling
I'm still fuming over the lost opportunity that our government messed up by not passing legalized gambling! If anyone googled revenue "Oxford Casino Maine", revenue is displayed to the state and the… read more
- Robert
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Common Core
Politics has no place in education of our youth. It must not be a Democrat or Republican issue.
Ever increasing role of partisanship in education in the last fifty years boosted per pupil tax… read more
- Ananta
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Gambling
New Hampshire Constitution clearly states that the state must promote good morals, frugality and public virtue. Yet, our state government is engaged in promoting vices solely to bring in revenue to… read more
- Ananta
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Marijuana Decriminalization
Although medical marijuana works wonders for cancer victims and others nobody with a shred of honesty believes that the real push is for anything other than recreational legalization.
Here in… read more
- Ernie
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Minimum Wage
Though raising the minimum wage sounds nice and is something I think every working class individual would vote in favor of, the raising of the minimum wage is a selfish personal desire and would not… read more
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Death Penalty
Without entering into the emotional debate regarding this very emotional issue, I would say that a vote that is taken in consideration of one person (the single person on death row in our state) is… read more
- Claude
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Campaign Spending Reform
This is an article from WMUR channel 9 in New Hampshire:
http://www.wmur.com/political-scoop/kuster-raises-400k-for-reelecti...
You know what I did the first 3 months of this year? I framed… read more
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Wind Power Restrictions
I work for a man who owns 109 acres high up on a mountain side in New Hampshire. I can assure you it is constantly windy at this location. It got us to debating what we could do with that land. I had… read more
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Northern Pass
I believe we should support the northern pass. During recession times, I do not believe it is good business to decline business. The Northern Pass is a 1.4 billion dollar project. This literally mean… read more
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Gun Laws
Absolutely not.
I grew up in Connecticut. I have worked in New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Florida, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts all in the last 5 years. I live in New Hampshire for a… read more
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Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
In an Op-Ed in the Union Leader of April 13, two biologists, Pam Hunt of New Hampshire Audubon and Loren Valliere of Wild Life Federation, cites climate change impacting the New Hampshire forests and… read more
- Ananta
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Marijuana Decriminalization
Many people find the Libertarian stance on the legality of drugs off putting or ridiculous.
How could enacting such legislation possibly be beneficial to society?
First, we must think upon the… read more
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Wind Power Restrictions
I am just returned from New Mexico, where a discussion with persons involved in some development projects led me to understand that New Mexico has some very wise legislation regarding mountain… read more
- Claude
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Gas Tax
New Hampshire legislature pushed by the Democratic Party members (who are the most compassionate, for the working people, for the middle class and "we hate the rich") is increasing the gas tax by… read more
- Ananta
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Gambling
I see the constant debate about this topic playing out in the state press and simply can't figure out what's the problem? State and local governments are not different then you or I. We all have… read more
- Robert
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Northern Pass
To my New Hampshire neighbors, Please take a look at this hyperlink called "Tucker's Turn" highlighting New Hampshire's outdoors http://youtu.be/9kiD_lD0Rq8 OR this hyper link… read more
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Campaign Spending Reform
Hello Alice,
You may be interested to know that a 2014 NH bill related to this issue: HJR 11. That bill was a House resolution asking Congress to form a Constitutional Convention to amend the… read more
- Anna
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Campaign Spending Reform
I heard that there is a vote to overturn the rule that says corporations are people. They are NOT. I'm a person! I'm an individual and I'm upset that big money has any "say" in my life. Please help… read more
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Health Insurance Marketplace
I recently used my Obamacare health plan for the first time in the middle of February. When I went in for my appointment, the receptionist said because the health plan is so new and they don't… read more
- Lynn
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Gun Laws
There should be checks and balances firearm ownership not "gun control" the more people see fire arms the more comfortable they will become with them. while the (MSM) keeps saying how bad guns are… read more
- ray
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Campaign Spending Reform
There are town meeting petitioned articles in over 50 NH towns this year to direct the NH Legislature to send a Resolution to Congress calling for a Constitutional amendment to overturn the 2010… read more
- Peter
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Northern Pass
OK I get it the beauty of an area may be affected. The Northern Pass project has addressed that issue. I don't get what the other issues are? I think they should bury the lines UNLESS they can use… read more
- Crystal
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Marijuana Decriminalization
Marijuana: Ganjahk, Hemp, Cannibis, Tree of Life, Hard Herb, Sensimia, Mary Jane
THC gives a feeling of euphoria, and should not bee seen as a toxic chemical; There are real toxic chemicals in the… read more
- Sky
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Wind Power Restrictions
In the early 1960s, Rachael Carson wrote a book entitled "Silent Spring" which chronicled how the use of DDT in particular was endangering the population of raptors, such as eagles, hawks and others… read more
- Ananta
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Minimum Wage
In a recent op-ed in the Union Leader, Mr. Mark MacKenzie is arguing for increasing the minimum wage through political process from $7.25 to $10.10. There was another op-ed from a business group… read more
- Ananta
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Gas Tax
Can we get someone that can manage his department without resorting to fear-mongering and political posturing? I am talking about DOT Commissioner, Christopher Clement. He says that he… read more
- Ananta
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Commuter Rail
In the words of Mr David Fink (CEO Pan Am RR Lines) "Everyone wants to study the cost of commuter rail, no one wants study the benefits."
Therefore, millions of dollars are spent on commuter… read more
- rich
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Prison Reform
Think. There are two opposing view points. The popular and politically correct is that evil people belong in prison, especially sex offenders. The opposing view point is rehabilitation… read more
- rich
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Health Insurance Marketplace
New Hampshire had a single Health Systems Agency (UHSA-United Health Systems Agency) whose by-laws gave every NH resident over 18 years of age, a vote on the Representatives we had on the five "Sub-… read more
- Robert
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Northern Pass
I do not support Northern Pass
If the southern part of NH Cities need electricity they need to look at alternative ways wind solar
we do not need to go to another country to help support the USA… read more
- Wayne
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Stand Your Ground/Castle Doctrine
It is time to honest about the Martin-Zimmerman case.
Many of the so-called political leaders, so-call civil-rights leaders, and so-call media leaders have been two-sided about the whole affair. If… read more
- Kris
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Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
The post states that the CO2 level in the atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million for the first time. That is a blatant misstatement.
In the medieval time about 1000-1200 AD, the CO2 levels… read more
- Ananta
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Wind Power Restrictions
The recently posted article about licensing issues with the wind farms in New Hampshire bemoans how siting delays are affecting the deployment of wind power.
It highlights aesthetics as the central… read more
- Ananta
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Gun Laws
Contrary to what you may have heard from CNN, the president, or other unreliable sources, this is how the U.S. Senate is supposed to work. Senators debated legislation, considered competing… read more
- Grant
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Gas Tax
It’s simple, sign the Americans for Prosperity New Hampshire (AFP-NH) petition. Just go to our website at www . stopnhgastax . com.
This will take less than two minutes and as the Honorary Chair of… read more
- Tom
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Commuter Rail
In January, the New Hampshire Executive Council is taking up a contract for a study looking at bringing commuter rail to the state.There is a common misconception that the state has not studied this… read more
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Gun Laws
I certainly think we should try to keep guns out of the hands of mentally unstable teenagers, who have been the perpetrators of most of these heavily publicized school shoot ups. But we must… read more
- Bob
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Gun Laws
Second Amendment is there not for hunting deer or target shooting. It is there to make citizens as effective in terms of arms as the soldiers in the government. In those days, if you had… read more
- Ananta
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Gun Laws
It's way past time for some reason on the issue of gun control. We have to stop this cycle of knee-jerk reactions to every gun-related disaster, and dominance by whoever can djin up the most… read more
- Rick
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Gas Tax
I have seen many yard signs that called for support and protection of middle class. The signs, I believe, were those of the state Democratic Party. After all, that Party have always… read more
- Ananta
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Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Five years in, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative isn’t working out the way its supporters said it would, and they want to make drastic changes to the program in order to get state revenues… read more
- Grant
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Death Penalty
I support the death penalty, in a manner of speaking, and so do you.
Death is a consequence of life. Premature death, on the other hand, can be a consequence of many things - poor decisions… read more
- Joshua
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Immigration Policy
One of the main issues facing the current Obama administration is Immigration reform. While ideas have been expressed on both sides, a concrete and over-arching plan has yet to be determined.
As New… read more
- Neil
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Welfare Restrictions
State Rep. Donald Lebrun (R) has filed a bill that would require applicants for welfare benefits (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) to pass a drug test (at their own expense, though the cost… read more
- William
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Minimum Wage
Why do I say no to these bills? Is it because I'm a business owner or a wealthy citizen? The answer is, no. I'm neither. I'm a stay-at-home mom managing a household on the lower end of the middle… read more
- Amanda
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Gun Laws
Simple as this: No. We don't need to change gun rights, that isn't the problem. The problem is gun owners not locking up their guns correctly.
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was … read more
- Steve
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