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May 09, 2013
By KEVIN LANDRIGAN CONCORD – The proposed controversial increase in the state’s gasoline tax touched off a polite but spirited debate during a 21⁄2-hour public hearing Tuesday. Senate Republican leaders have vowed to kill the plan that, over the next three years, would raise the tax 12 cents a gallon for non-diesel driving motorists. It [...]
May 09, 2013
By Timothy Dionisopoulos University of New Hampshire (UNH) administrators used student funds to hire prostitutes to speak at a conference on the “sex worker industry” last month, Campus Reform has learned. The event, entitled “The Global Sex Industry: Exploring Transnational Feminism, Ecocriticism and Sex Workers Rights,” took place on April 16, and cost the school [...]
May 07, 2013
CONCORD — A proposed 12 cent-a-gallon gasoline tax hike is a long-shot in the state Senate but that outlook did not stop supporters from trying to change minds during a key committee hearing Tuesday. House bill 617, which passed the House 206-158 in late March, would increase the state’s gasoline tax from 18 to 30 [...]
May 07, 2013
MANCHESTER – Americans for Prosperity is expressing their disappointment in tonight’s Senate vote to create a new tax by voting to pass the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act. The Senate voted 69-27 tonight to pass the bill. Both Senator Shaheen and Senator Ayotte voted against it. “New Hampshire businesses should be focused on expanding their businesses [...]
May 06, 2013
By DANIELLE CURTIS DURHAM– When the University of New Hampshire’s Women Studies program wanted to foster a conversation about the laws policing the nation’s sex trade, they went right to the source, bringing in a Californian sex worker, and two advocates for sex workers’ rights from New York City. The visitors, brought to the university [...]