Common Sense For New Hampshire

Here is a tally of all yes and no votes by our Council since 2012.  Any distinction between “routine” votes and non “routine” votes would be subjective so I included all votes, even approval of minutes.  Absences and abstentions are excluded.  It should be noted, however, that many of Bean’s post-Sandy abstentions are due to […]

With redevelopment overturned, the administration can no longer create bonds that, under redevelopment law, are not subject to petitions.  This means that the government must abide by legally collected petitions that call for binding referenda. This is as it should be, especially when the government wants to borrow and spend $7 million in our names. […]

There is a hole in America. Thousands of lives missing.  Thousands who never became husbands and fathers, and now, wives and mothers.  Thousands of lives and loves and families and memories that never happened and thousands of futures never conceived. But the really cruel thing about war is that it takes away our best.  America […]

From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal: The Thomas Edison battery building in West Orange, N.J., once hummed with life as a manufacturing plant for batteries for various industries as part of a laboratory complex where Edison, the great inventor, worked. Today, the decaying building—with its stained walls and peeling paint around its large windows—is the hub […]

Today’s Coast Star has the full story about Ted Ehmann’s ethic’s complaint filed against Jamie Fox.  (The one published here May 15.) A Belmar resident has filed an ethics complaint against a member of the New Jersey Local Finance Board for discussing two complaints when he had an alleged conflict of interest. Vincent Ehmann made the […]