Republican State Senator and Gubernatorial Candidate Joe Kenney

I am a member of the New Hampshire House of Representative serving Grafton County District 6. I have been serving on the Job Training Fund Grant Review Committee since its recreation. I will paraphrase this as best I can. I heard Senator Kenney comment that a businessman had told him that his firm was discouraged from applying for a Job Training Grant because the requirements were too demanding. I have no idea why anyone would come to that conclusion. I would say the process is not complicated nor is it very demanding. In addition there are many helpful and capable people at the Workforce Opportunity Council prepared to assist applicants in the process. I would encourage any firm in neeed of assistance with a training program to look in to the Job Training Fund administered by the Workforce Opportunity Council in Concord.

I live in Gardner, MA. I have life long friends in NH, whom I love dearly, however, we have come to "blows" meaning hot air about the parasitic nature of NH's tax base, which they generously call symbiotic, such as no sales tax, income tax, low cigeretee & liquor tax and NO BOTTLE/CONTAINER BILl. Most states that have these container laws run a surplus of "nickles/dimes" and that surplus goes to the general revemnue fund at the end of the fiscal year, noticing how NH roads are strewn with containers when I go to visit my "parasitic" friends, what say you to this lack of enviromental effort that could pay real dollars? SIncerly Charles Hodgkinson