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Cabinet Letters

Renovation

As the architect of the original building in 1980 and of the addition in 1996, I am concerned that Kathy Cleveland’s article on her interview with chief Mark Reams may be misinterpreted: When a detainee is released from the cell area there are four ways to get him/her out of the building – ...

We can do better

Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published its annual data findings on U.S. drug overdose deaths. Once again, New Hampshire was featured as one of the top ranking U.S. states for drug overdose death rates in the country (No. 3). In October, UNH’s Granite State Poll ...

For the people of New Hampshire

On Jan. 17, the Public Works and Highways House Committee will be hearing testimony on HB 1706. The bill reinstates the financing for the Wild Goose boat launch on Lake Sunapee killed by the Senate in the last term and buried by the governor shortly thereafter. Very briefly, after all, there ...

Public hearing set

The Amherst Town Ways and Means Committee is chartered to examine and provide an Outside point of view on all planned appropriations and finances of the town. To do so, W&M has spent the last several months reviewing records of the town’s revenues and expenditures and understanding the ...

Consuming wealth

The critics of tax cuts use terms which cause me to believe that they have no understanding of taxes, earnings, wealth creation or much of anything about how our economic system works. They talk about “windfalls” for “the rich,” and the government “giving” to the wealthy. Yet ...

Toll increase needed

New Hampshire needs to spend money to fix its crumbling bridges and roads. Who wants to be driving over a red-listed bridge when it collapses? No one I know. Yet, as reported in The Telegraph on Dec. 22, “Sununu rejects toll increase.” This, after three of five Executive Councilors favored ...