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            After voting by an overwhelming margin (177-108) to not get involved in foreign affairs and ask Great Britain to give the Elgin Marbles back to Greece, the New Hampshire House will be asked to revisit the subject next week thanks to a motion Thursday morning–not by some back bencher intent on stirring up trouble, [...]

Long gone are the days when the Union Leader could set the agenda for New Hampshire and help elect conservatives or Republicans.   The firebrand that was William Loeb who went right at issues with scathing attacks days after day has been replaced by Joe W. McQuaid who is somewhere between Caspar Milktoast and a Don [...]

The past two days, the Union Leader appears to have endorsed every Republican candidate for Alderman in Manchester (and a few Independent–aka Undeclared–as well) with the single exception of the Ward 3 candidate who uses this website under the code name, Fair Mind.  Yes, that would be Joe Kelly Levasseur, and this should come as [...]

No we’re not talking about sexual organs here, but the Union Leader is to be commended for taking Democrats to task yesterday for their obsession with size.
We’re talking class size here, and for years, in an attempt to provide more jobs for their teachers unions, Democrats have contended that only by reducing class size can [...]

 
 
Let the world know that Fairmind, the greatest misnomer in blogging history, is none other than Joe Kelly Levasseur who, after losing his last six races for public office, should be more concerned about being eliminated by Pat Long and Peter Sullian in 13 days in Ward 3.  After all, prominent Republicans decried Levasseur’s meltdown [...]

 
 
No, coverage of Ted Kennedy’s passng was not all posiive; it just seemed that way at times.
Here are five things we learned that we might not  havknow before.
–It was for cheating on a Spanish test (having someone else tke te test or him) that he was expelled from Harvard.  Wonder if all the Spanish speaking voter ever knew that?–At [...]

Five billion dollars a day.
If this were Jeopardy, that would be the answer, and of course, we’d all have to come up with a question.
The question is–How much is it costing U.S. taxpayers just in interest payments on the national debt, Alex?
The staggering statistic, along with many others, comes from Glen Beck who has the rare [...]

This one’s not for the faint of heart, but after listening to the Howie Carr show on WRKO this afternoon, I feel the need to share.
The best indication that Ted Kennedy is on death’s door is the letter he’s written to Mass Governor Patrick and the State Legislalture there asking that they change the law [...]

Now that the state appears to be $110 million shy of revenues, based on the court’s medical insurance ruling, each and every one of us should feel obligated to come up with suggestions on how to save money.
Oh, I know, Dems will say that simply isn’t possible, that this budget is so tight, nothing can [...]

It seems as if the majority of Manchester Democratic Aldermen will do anything to prevent we the people from voting on a spending cap.  Certainly Aldermen would have the votes to prevent Mayor Frank Guinta from firing City Solicitor Tom Clark, but that’s exactly what the mayor should do before he leaves office.
After failing to [...]