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New Hampshire has one of the highest motorcycle registration rates in the country. Why do people people love to ride in the Granite State? Scroll down to see what each Laconia rally attendee thinks New Hampshire has to offer, and check out our U.S. map of motorcycle popularity.
On Monday the Nashua Telegraph published an article with some scary numbers: 78% of freshmen at Nashua Community College coming from Nashua public high schools require remedial coursework. This is higher than the national community college remediation rate, which is close to 60% — and it doesn’t include those students who frequently require remediation because […]
Do New Hampshire politicians only put on their New Hampshire Advantage glasses when it’s convenient? The Nashua Telegraph has an editorial today urging Granite Staters to “resist distortion” of New Hampshire’s business image by candidates during election season. “Let’s guard against those candidates who would distort the state’s business-friendly reputation for sheer political expediency,” the […]
Carolyn Dube of the Merrimack Patch has a story today about two vacant properties in Merrimack that have been designated by the state as Economic Revitalization Zones. “This is one of few financial incentives we’re allowed to give in New Hampshire,” Community Development Director Tim Thompson told Dube. It works like this.  First, a town applies for […]
It’s not every day that the US Secretary of Education calls me wanting to talk, but on Tuesday afternoon that’s just what happened. When I asked Secretary Duncan what he wanted to talk about, he said, “college affordability.” Earlier that day he, Vice President Joe Biden, and Consumer Financial Bureau Director Richard Cordray kicked off […]
Come November, Granite Staters will be voting on an amendment to the state constitution banning a personal income tax. The amendment would need to receive the support of two-thirds of voters in November in order to become law. While New Hampshire is already one of the nation’s nine states without a personal income tax, the […]
Last week the House and Senate failed to agree even to create a commission to make recommendations regarding pension reform. As I set out to write this piece, I found the different plans and their costs and benefits pretty confusing. Before I could get myth-busting, I needed to learn the basics. I thought I’d lay […]
Last week, a State Senate bill that initially sought to replace New Hampshire’s defined benefit (DB for short — think pension) plan with a defined contribution plan (DC for short — think 401(k)) dissolved into a stalemate.  The Senate and House were not even able to form a commission to make recommendations addressing the state’s $4.2 billion in unfunded […]
Although Naturopathic Doctors (NDs) undergo virtually the same training as medical doctors, their services have not been covered by insurance companies in the state of New Hampshire. Two and a half years ago, ND Bert Mathieson was frustrated by what struck him as “discrimination flat out.” He got a sponsor for a bill that would […]
na·tur·op·a·thy [ney-chuh–rop–uh-thee, nach-uh-] noun This week at the State House, Senate and House members agreed on a version of a bill that will require some insurance plans to cover visits to naturopathic doctors.  Before we get to the economic impacts of the bill, we wanted to know: what is it exactly that naturopathic Drs. do? In […]
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