EDITORIALS
In the 2009 fiscal year, only 16 percent of New Hampshire prison inmates served their maximum sentences. That is not good enough for the state Department of Corrections and some legislators.
Gov. John Lynch showed last week that he's not being fooled by the wily ways of the pro-gambling movement.
Senate Bill 472, sponsored by Sen. Sheila Roberge, R-Bedford, would add to the capital punishment statutes the crime of "purposely causing the death of another while in another's residence, or attempting to enter another's residence, or after having been in another's residence without invitation or right."
Last Wednesday, the state House of Representatives voted 202-148 to deny you the option to decide whether to cap local spending or taxes.
From one week's news clippings, a few examples of how New Hampshire residents are being kept in the dark by their local and state government servants:
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