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By Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, Hills. 15
                At last Thursday night’s dinner meeting with 18 Manchester area State Representatives at the Back Room, Millenium “principal” William Wortman asserted that the average salary for the 1000 jobs his group would create at the Rockingham Park racino would be $43,000-44,000.
               Realizing that the vast majority of racino employees are [...]

First the caveat.  November is by far the least significant month for revenues coming into state coffers.  In fact, a negative amount is built in for business taxes (due to refunds) and we’re already ahead on that front.
However, after being exactly on pace for October, real estate transfer taxes (which SHOULD all be in by now) [...]

The way to a legislator’s heart is through his/her stomach. 
If nothing else, the Las Vegas based Millenium Company, trying to foist a megamillion casino scheme on New Hampshire’s unsuspecting populace  has learned that.  Not content with the legislative luncheon it offered on veto day, Millenium is at it again, upping the ante this time (at [...]

ANOTHER RED HAMSPHIRE EXCLUSIVE
Not only will Manchester Mayor-Elect Ted Gatsas endorse former State Rep Terry Pfaff of Hooksett for Gatsas’s District 16 State Senate seat tomorrow, but Gatsas will also serve as campaign chairman for Pfaff.
The announcement will come at the Market Street offices which served as the Gatsas for Mayor headquarters and are currently housing [...]

November 12, 2009steve vaillancourt
First, let’s look at rooms and meals money taken in by the state for the past seven years (note how the trend is broken in 2009):
2003–$175.4 million
2004–184.5 million
2005–193.6 million
2006–200.0 million
2007–207.9 million
2008–214.3 million
2009–209.9 million
First four months of 2010 (based on 9%, not 8% and other enhancements)–          91.0 million vs. 100.2 million expected (251.1 million [...]

Polls, polls, polls.
Good news, good news, good news, at least if you’re a Republican.
Perhaps the best of all news is that for the 20th consecutive week, Republicans lead in Rasmussen’s generic ballot survey.    If the election were held today, 43 percent say they would vote for a Republican for Congress, only 37 percent for a [...]

Team of Doctors Summoned To Manchester To Treat Mass Schizophrenia
              
               No, that’s not a headline seen anywhere in the main stream media today, but well it could be.
               Manchester voters, in overwhelmingly voting for the spending cap yesterday and even more overwhelmingly voting for Mayor-Elect Ted Gatsas who is committed to making the spending cap [...]

Unlike in September, there was no last minute revenue influx, and the October report came in just about in line with the numbers reported here last Friday.
Overall for the month, revenues were off $11.8 million for $37.5 million shortfall for the first four months of the year.  If you add the highway fund, down $2.4 [...]

Those are the only two questions that really matter as I write this 30 hours before the polls close in Manchester.
Briefly the answers are yes and not very long.  Now the details…
If Ted Gatsas had to get to 60 percent to win the Manchester mayoral race, it could be close, but Democrats, even in this [...]

ANOTHER REDHAMPSHIRE EXCLUSIVE–SOMETHING YOU WON’T GET (yet) IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
With today the final day for revenues to trickle into state coffers for the month of October, we stand $12.8 million shy of expectations ($203.1 million of an expected $215.9 million).  Some from tobacco (off $1.1 million now); liquor (off $0.5 million now) and lotteries [...]