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THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, June 14, 2012
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OUR STORY
The Weirs Times was first published in 1883 by Mathew H. Calvert. The newspaper, then named Calvert’s Weirs Times and Tourists’ Gazette, was published until Mr. Calvert’s death in 1902. One of the most remarkable features of the publication was a map of Lake Winnipesaukee which occupied the center spread of the paper. Readers will find the same map reprinted on the center pages of this, and every issue. The new Weirs Times was re-established in 1992 and strives to maintain the patriotic spirit of its
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concerning the State’s redistricting centers on the legislature’s miscon- ception of how popula- tion figures are measured when assigning seats to the State’s towns and cit- ies. In Gilford’s case, we have sufficient popula- tion to warrant two seats for the House of Repre- sentatives. The State’s Constitution [Art.] 11. supports Gilford’s claim that it is “within a rea- sonable deviation for one or more representative seats.” Additionally, Fed- eral Case Law (Reynolds v. Sims 377 U.S. 533 (64) also confirms in part: any deviation as long as it is reasonable meets muster and any “mathematical exactness or precision is hardly a workable consti- tutional requirement”. Unmoved by the N.H.
Constitution or Federal Case Law with respect to voter representation, the legislative committee on redistricting dismissed Gilford’s census figures and decided that Gilford should be combined with Meredith as one district with four representatives, insisting that Gilford and Meredith are contiguous. When demonstrated that Laconia by boundary di- vides both towns and they are not contiguous, the committee quipped-- -both towns are contigu- ous by water. What was that! If that is the case, and using the commit- tee’s flawed reasoning, one could presume, Gil-
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ford is also contiguous with Tuftonboro, Wolfe- boro and Alton. When questioning a commit- tee member on that pre- sumption I received no plausible response. A reasonable person
could conclude from this commentary that either town could be easily dis- enfranchised for equal representation. In my opinion, good public poli- cy means reasoned legis- lation that is representa- tive of all the people. Ap- parently, the legislature thinks otherwise.
George Hurt Gilford, NH.
Response To The People Of The
North Country And John Harrigan: I am responding to the
last article you wrote about the Northern Pass and water power. You are about 98% right and I re- spect you all. But about six weeks ago PSNH fi- nally put the scrubbers in use for coal plants. This cleans the air to ac- ceptable limits (not 100% clean like water power) but this increases the bill to customers from $2 to $8 a month for every customer for this capital improvement cost. This is a stranded cost, so customers can save all the electric they want and still pay this extra cost. So much for coal. I would like now to get
to the much larger prob- lem. In the 1990s the Government passed bills to deregulate the electric companies. The deregu-
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lation forced the separa- tion between electric dis- tribution and electric pro- duction. This forced all of the electric companies to sell their power produc- ing stations. (A mistake!) This process started in the south and moved north. Some of the companies that bought the power stations were good and some were bad. (Remem- ber Enron?) These power producing companies did NOT have to answer to the Public Service Com- mission in the states they ran these power houses. These companies wanted to make as much profit as they could, generally giv- ing no thought to mainte- nance or the public. By the time this power
station sale process got to New England - around 2000 - the local govern- ments saw it was not working well and decid- ed to slow down the en- forcement of the sale of power production. The good part of deregula- tion is that consumers can shop around and buy from a cheaper com- pany. Big electricity buy- ers have that option now and smaller customers will get that option soon. This process shows that we are all part of a power grid. I am saving about $15.00 per month at the Meredith American Legion Post through this process and am buying power from a firm in Houston, TX. The bad news of de- regulation is that we are all in a grid where most of the power plants are in the control of a small number of companies that are not answering to anybody. It is only a matter of time before we have breakdowns of pro- duction leading to power shortages, all because deregulated power pro- duction no longer has to guarantee there is enough electricity for all users. This is where the water power is going to work See MAILBOAT on 34
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