Quick, name the Grafton Board Of Selectmen’s biggest accomplishment in the 2018-2019 year. Go on. I’ll wait. During Grafton TV’s Selectmen candidate Q&A session*, Board Chairman and candidate for re-election, Sargon Hanna, repeatedly suggested that, despite Grafton’s pressing fiscal issues, our real priority should be “unifying” the board of Selectmen within itself and encouraging other […]
Peter Carlson for Selectman – With a Bullet
Earlier this week, an innocuous Peter Carlson for Selectman Facebook post caught my eye, and stood out to me as a prime example of the difference between Peter and his two opponents in the May 21 election. That post is as follows: The Road Stabilization Fund is a direct result of solid fundamental planning and […]
A Quiet, Substance Free Election? Not On My Watch.
This is – no lie – the single most important municipal election of the past ten years, and yet there is zero buzz about it. Let’s change that right now. We’re facing a million dollar deficit next year. Without adding significant additional income, or implementing dramatic expense reductions, you can expect fewer town services, larger […]
Grafton’s Three-Eyed Raven Speaks…
The year is 2014. Grafton has decided that it can’t afford to pay for quality schools based on what it has budgeted. The community bands together to pass a tax override to give schools more than they would have received under proposition 2.5. The year is 2016 . The town government has done absolutely nothing […]
Alexandra’s words, and looking in my own mirror.
Back in November of 2014, I was invited by a former high school classmate of mine at Concord High School in Concord, New Hampshire, to come back to speak to some students at that same school, where she is now a teacher. The class that she taught had something to do with the law and […]
Requiem for Decency: Goodbye George H.W. Bush
There was a moment during the 1992 Presidential campaign when then-President George H.W. Bush was asked during a public appearance a pointed question by a young man in the audience, and the President asked the young man, “How old are you?” Twenty-five, he replied. “It shows,” said the President. In my formative years, that sort […]
I’m a NO on Override 2019
I’m not voting for an override if one is proposed in 2019. Just so we’re all clear. Has an override been proposed? Not formally, no. Has it been discussed amongst people in a position to push for one? Sure it has. And I’m out. Not because we won’t need one. I know enough about our […]
