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In 2011 the Legislature balanced the budget without new taxes, reformed Medicaid and pensions, and reformed taxes on business owners. The economy has started to recover. But education funding remains unfinished business. A formula (SB-183) passed in 2011 ensured towns don’t lose education dollars and prevented return of the dreaded statewide property tax. But this 2011 formula does not resolve the decades-old education funding dilemma spawned by the NH Supreme Court’s Claremont-related decisions that require the state to fund every dollar of the cost of an adequate education through equalized grants for every student across the state regardless of need. Sooner – rather than later – taxpayers will be confronted with an income tax or sales tax, probably both, to pay the court-ordered costs of education. → Read more

On Tuesday, the long-anticipated first-in-the-nation New Hampshire Presidential Primary will lend its voice of support to one Republican who will hopefully go on to challenge the current commander in chief come November. Foster’s Sunday Citizen and Foster’s Daily Democrat after many editorial board meetings and covering countless campaign events ח has endorsed Mitt Romney. We could spend the words that follow here listing nearly endless reasons why Granite State Republicans should give Romney their own endorsement on Tuesday. But the primary season has been long, and to some extent we agree with readers who believe it is time for New Hampshire to have its say and quickly move along the process of choosing a challenger to the president. → Read more