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 In July the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau appointed a new minister of border security and organized crime reduction.       Changes are coming to the Canadian border.     "Managed in a way that promotes legitimate travel and trade while keeping Canadians safe and treating everyone fairly and in accordance with our laws." said Bill Blair the new minister.       While treating everyone fairly the question becomes what this could actually mean in places like Derby Line, Norton and West Stewartstown, New Hampshire? The border with Canada is either open or it's closed.     It goes both ways.  🛃🛃🛃

 Back in 2010 when Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, Maine and Massachusetts were legislatively moving towards allowing expanded gaming I knew this was the decline and fall of Atlantic City as a casino destination, and it was.  But before it all this happened I decided to experience the historic AC boardwalk and it's 12 casinos.     There were two things that instantaneously jumped out about this storied seaside location. There were at least 100 feral cats underneath the boardwalk and Russians everywhere. And I mean everywhere. Russians in the smallest casino like the AC Hilton once frequented by Frank Sinatra, Russians in the then newly opened Borgata which is like a  multi-level Walmart Supercenter with slot machines. And the boardwalk itself of course.     There were russians everywhere and I decided to find out why.     All of them spoke in broken english if they spoke it at all most wouldn't even make eye contact with me and re...

The candidates for the next election in New Hampshire have all filed.   As in all state elections there is alot of political speculation as to what could happen. I've heard for some time that the democratic party is poised to make big election wins because of President Donald Trump, and that the NH Republican Party is not only disorganized but is experiencing real issues in fundraising for it's slate of candidates.   The history of elections in the granite state is interesting. Many decisive political races have been fought and won not by political parties themselves, but by the role of undecided independents that swing a race either to the left or to the right.   I think this will happen in this next election and there will even be a few surprises.   The GOP will likely construct a breakwater against this reported blue wave that is coming and attempt to hold on to their held territory, which includes the governor's office. There will be alot of campaign ads and ...

September 13th will be a defining day in the history of New Hampshire.     This is veto override day in Concord. The house and senate will vote yea or nay for pieces of legislation that Gov. Chris Sununu has vetoed in this last legislative session.     One of these vetoed bills is Senate Bill 365, the wood biomass bill which will decide the course of history for the Granite State. The question that gets answered on this early fall day is whether New Hampshire will continue to have a working and sustainable forest industry with millions of dollars in local tax base and good paying jobs or not. September 13th will be a historical direction for New Hampshire.     Senate Bill 365 is about the North Country. Over 1/3 of the state is forested, most of it north of Concord. This veto override will require a 3/5 yea majority which is 250 votes in the 400 member house and 16 votes in the 24 member senate.     This 3/5ths is a real problem. A vas...

Governor Chris Sununu recently made a political campaign like swing up north to Conway.   Of course he was asked about the wood biomass industry and his veto of legislation that now decimates this North Country industry and lots of good jobs.    "To ask the governor to impose a quarter billion in tax, plus an additional subsidy, I'm not going to do that." Sununu said. Similar to his previous statements about subsidies the governor doesn't define these numbers like how the quarter billion is calculated.  "It's unfortunate about the jobs." the governor also said. It is unfortunate about the jobs and the loss of local tax base. It's unfortunate that New Hampshire can't have policymakers in Concord that can support well established state history with a realistic or even explained financial model or at least come up with a compromise. None of this was done.     Gov. Sununu is campaigning for a second term. I don't see anything stopping him...

  About 1773 the king of England, George III had a problem. English colonies were not paying taxes into the state treasury as they should.     New Hampshire was one such colony.   "Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing Americans to a due submission to the mother country the colonies will submit." the powerful monarch said. He then sent divisions of British redcoats in heavily armed frigates across the atlantic quickly igniting a bloodshed fueled insurrection and a revolution which would ultimately forge a small forested New England state and later a country.       England lost this war but they might be returning.     The North Country of New Hampshire which is over a 1/3 of the state's landmass is on the verge of losing it's last working forests industry which has existed since before the American Revolution. Concord is now similar to London as centre of taxation, revenue, sovereignty and the issuance of ed...

  The Flying Yankee could be scrapped and it wouldn't be missed just like it hasn't been missed for the last 30 years. Moving The Flying Yankee Will Come To Symbolize Something. Rome.   But the idea of moving this train down to Concord is still a good one. It will cost the state well over $30,000.00 to bring it down from Lincoln. Then as a lighted, vandalized static display visible from I-93 it will come to symbolize what is wrong with Concord and it's growing similarities with that of Rome.   New Hampshire should not be in the railroad preservation business. There is no heritage with this train, only costs. This Flying Yankee train is nuisance nostalgia that needs to be scrapped.