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Just want to send my thoughts and prayers out to the victims of today's NH tornado and to all those whose homes have been damaged or destoyed by the tornado and/or by flooding. In a state of emergency like today, Governor Lynch has proven to me repeatedly that he will rise to the occasion, so a quick prayer for him too. To our first responders, state troopers and National Guard - thank you and ...
Blue Hampshire - Thu 9:03 p.m. - 5 clicks 
John E. is fond of saying how he votes with New Hampshire - 100% of the time ! Too bad, he funds his campaign with New Hampshire a a bit less than that . Finally, a race Sununu is winning: Donors with out-of-state addresses have given Mr. Sununu $1.8 million, versus a tad over $566,000 from Granite State contributors. That's $3 and some change from donors elsewhere in America for every lo...
Blue Hampshire - Thu 9:03 p.m. - 6 clicks
For Immediate Release CONCORD - Gov. John Lynch this afternoon declared a state of emergency in Belknap, Carroll, Merrimack, Strafford and Rockingham counties due to damage from severe weather and thunderstorms. The state Emergency Operations Center in Concord is open. Gov. Lynch is inspecting the damage. "The situation is still ongoing. I urge all New Hampshire citizens to take sensible prec...
Democracy for New Hampshire - Thu 12:40 p.m. - 6 clicks
McCain's "We are gonna withdraw; we will withdraw" quasi-surrender to reality has gotten some coverage, but the massive, ground-shifting -- and, as far as I can tell, entirely unnoticed, -- switcheroo comes about a sentence later: "If I thought that al-Qaeda was completely defeated, I would say all of us should come home right away." That's right: without so much as a press releas...
Blue Hampshire - Wed 6:36 p.m. - 13 clicks
A big day for tracking the Senate race - how I wish I had more faith in either polling outfit. First up is ARG . Yeah, I know, ARG, but it's a poll: Shaheen 58% Sununu 36% 6% undecided, poll taken 7/19-21, 600 sample size, MoE +/- 4%. Next up is UNH ( .pdf here ). Please refer to Laura's two diaries here and here for our concerns about it. Shaheen 46% Sununu 42% 10% undecided, take...
Blue Hampshire - Wed 8:00 a.m. - 12 clicks
Granite State Progress just sent out a release via email on today's McCain town hall in Rochester . In addition to the Senator likening his NH staff to criminals , there was the following, imho, an ancedote that captures perfectly how far the GOP and McCain have devolved in eight years: Andy Kaplan, a Portsmouth resident who works in Rochester, stood outside the Rochester Opera House b...
Blue Hampshire - Tue 5:08 p.m. - 12 clicks
Clearly, I'm more easily entertained than Dean. But it's true, John McCain's town hall meeting was was very....well, small bore, I guess. It's hard to say. The 600 supporters there were reverential, much as if they were in church. There were a lot of standing ovations for vets and for lines about winning the war. There is no doubt they were sincere, but there was also...
Blue Hampshire - Tue 5:08 p.m. - 11 clicks
Back on June 26, in a conference call with reporters, John Sununu spoke about the need, in his opinion, to increase domestic oil production. Sununu has been a proponent of the View To a Drill school of thought - just open up all of the United States to oil drilling, and life will be fine. However, the reality is, American energy companies aren't that interested in finding more oil or invest...
Blue Hampshire - Tue 12:33 p.m. - 11 clicks
Did you all know that while Obama is becoming a global rock star, McCain is in Rochester today referring to his staffers as criminals ? Whatever. If I'm forced to care about a candidate who has been down in NH polls and national polls for a long time now, then here's my obligatory blog post, with accompanying obligatory link and obligatory blockquote: "I promise you that because of my experien...
Blue Hampshire - Tue 11:06 a.m. - 11 clicks
World-renowned author and activist Bill McKibben will speak at the South Church on State Street in Portsmouth on Sunday, July 20, at 4:00 p.m. McKibben is returning from a sustainability conference in Sweden and the G8 summit in Japan. The South Church event is sponsored in part by RiverRun Bookstore, Slow Food Seacoast, the South Church’s Minds Alive! and Green [...]...
Seacoast NRG - Jul 16 - 21 clicks
I missed this entirely. While they were in Sweden, I must have been at the beach. From the Portsmouth Herald a week ago Sunday, a nice article about Burt Cohen and Skye Maher, Portsmouth residents who attended the International Eco-municipality Conference in Sweden last month. Cohen and Maher are also organizers of the Piscataqua Sustainability [...]...
Seacoast NRG - Jul 14 - 23 clicks
Portsmouth Green Drinks is an open social event for those interested in building a sustainable society, and in meeting and making new friends along the way. Events are held every third Thursday of the month. July’s event will feature both a presentation by Green Alliance, and a teleconference call with Sierra Club Executive Director Carl [...]...
Seacoast NRG - Jul 12 - 19 clicks
Snake Eyes for Nevada Caucuses...NH Blogosphere Ramps Up for 2008... Lynch Tells the Tsar his Reign is Over...Hillary to Headline NH 100 Club Dinner. And more. Enjoy!...
LostNation.tv - Jul 10 - 16 clicks
Barack Obama was in NH this weekend. I didn’t go to see him. The beauty of covering the NH primary is that there really aren’t any big crowds until the very end. And I’m not crazy about crowds. Especially the smitten variety. It was a mob scene everywhere the junior senator from Illinois went. His book signing in Portsmouth jammed the Frank Jones Center, a largish convention hall...
LostNation.tv - Jul 10 - 20 clicks
As I write this from my expensive bunker in the decaying Gulf Coast city where I brood and make easy money until my trip to the New Hampshire Primary, the smell of crap wafts through my windows again. For some reason, probably connected to some sleazy, backroom deal, the sellout burghers of Pensacola built the city’s turd plant downtown. Close enough (they erroneously calculated) near th...
LostNation.tv - Jul 10 - 19 clicks
Tacoma, WA - I cam out tonight to celebrate the one year anniversary of BTB as a political journalist. It was exactly July 2, 2007 when I drove from Quabbin Qountry, MA to Laconia, NH in order to watch then-underdog Barack Obama address a crowd of 350. That rally was my maiden voyage toward reporting what actually happened in politics; and what would be a first step down what has become a fairly ...
Quabbin Qountry Queries - Jul 2 - 17 clicks
Some blog about making a difference, while others actually go out and do it. The New Amsterdam Project provides human-powered delivery services in Boston, using custom built bicycle “trucks”. Founded in 2006, NAP has clients and 10 rider-drivers in the Boston-Cambridge metro area, and, according to the Portsmouth Herald, is looking to expand into Portsmouth. ...
Seacoast NRG - Jun 29 - 19 clicks
While the continuing rise of gas prices shows no sign of abating, the Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast Transportation (Coast) is reporting that bus ridership in the Seacoast area remains on a record pace, with 390,000 trips estimated for 2008, an increase of 4% - 5% over the system’s record year in 2007. Coast expects that 2008 will mark the sixth [...]...
Seacoast NRG - Jun 27 - 15 clicks
I had the good fortune to attend part of the UNH Energy Conference, held June 20-21 at the UNH Durham campus. I went there not for purposes of work or networking, but simply to learn about more geeky energy stuff. I was not disappointed, and judging by the reactions and enthusiasm I saw, I believe the other [...]...
Seacoast NRG - Jun 25 - 16 clicks
