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Shira Schoenberg has a lengthy article on yesterday’s LLC Tax Hearing on the Concord Monitor.

Tom Fahey has a great front page story in the Union Leader, but only in the print edition. Hey, baby steps. They put DiStaso back online this morning.

And you can read yesterday’s Live Blog Live from the DRA at New Hampshire Watchdog.

Plus, shameless self-promotion. Tom DeRose asked me to stop by the Republican State Committee to discuss downshifting the costs of health care onto the states, and downshifting the costs of the budget onto cities and towns in this week’s podcast.

I’m basing this prediction not on any polling, trends, or political insight. I’m just reading the AP preview of today’s elections, in which reporter Liz Sidoti says that no matter what happens, the GOP still has lots of problems ahead.

Great news for Doug Hoffman in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava has suspended her campaign, and is releasing her supporters to the remaining two candidates, Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman and Democratic nominee Bill Owens.

The Union Leader posts a web banner this morning announcing that they will publish their three influential political columns, John DiStaso’s “Granite Status”, Scott Brooks’ “City Hall”, and Tom Fahey’s “Under the State House Dome” only in their print edition from now on. Political junkies will no longer be able to read the must-read columns online Thursday and Sunday mornings, and blogs as this one will no longer be able to link to interesting tidbits from the columns.

Concord business owner Andy Sanborn did an outstanding job this morning describing the true cost of taxation on his restaurant. Dozens of taxes devouring 16% of his total revenues. Watch his video at the NHGOP website.

Some highlights of the Tax Summit so far:
“No state has ever taxed its way to prosperity.”
“New Hampshire should be like Wal-Mart. Always low taxes. Always.”
“You can not possibly expand revenues fast enough to keep up with the exploding growth of the elderly population.”
We’re live blogging both today and tomorrow over at NH Watchdog.

UPDATE- As promised, we roundup reaction to the SEA contract vote in the daily newspapers with lots of linky goodness over at NH Watchdog.
And by a lot.  NH Political Report puts the vote against at 2708 to 1875.
He also has Governor Lynch’s statement.
We’ll round up the stories and reactions over at NH Watchdog.

So totally unfair.  Obama’s bloated, ineffective stimulus package provided stunning evidence in the failure of Keynesian economic theory.  Surely, he deserves recognition for highlighting the foolishness of flooding the economy with politically targeted handouts!
We take a look at the actual winners, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson, over at NH Watchdog.

Barack Obama doesn’t even make the list.  Al Gore and Jimmy Carter certainly do.
Even President Obama seemed embarrassed at receiving such a ridiculous award.