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An op ed piece in the Concord Monitor suggest that if you don’t support gambling them you must want more taxes.

Soon the Legislature and the residents of New Hampshire will be faced with a choice: cut existing programs in health and human services, the environment, mental health, corrections, safety, education and on and on, or [...]

Nice editorial in the Union Leader. The part that I think is most important to pay attention to is this:
The basic problem, of course, is that the Democrats have been good at winning elections and terrible at managing the state of New Hampshire. They have used the politically successful formula of taking the pledge to [...]

Sununu is going to do it:
Two days after announcing his run for state Republican Party Chairman, the 69-year-old former governor was en route to a meeting of the Cheshire County Republicans yesterday evening. He laid out his mission like this: to help his party “save the state from the Democrats,” who “have increased spending unbelievably.”
“I [...]

Lynch is as shrewd as always. He’s leaving the option to raise the gas tax open.
Lawmakers from both parties say the state needs to increase its gasoline tax to keep highways maintained, but Gov. John Lynch is not convinced of that yet.
Lynch said this week he hasn’t changed his stance against a gas tax hike, [...]

But why are they leaving $89 million in the “rainy day” fund? I personally hate these “rainy day funds.” If there’s extra money the state should return it to the taxpayers not leave it sitting in some account somewhere.

Lawmakers chopped almost $60 million from the state’s budget yesterday, with wide-ranging cuts hitting [...]