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🍎 Reader photo: Fresh-picked apples with a view at Gould Hill Farm in Contoocook. Share your pic!

📰 What we’re reading, including: How voting rights groups are preparing for problems at the polls. What to know.

📢 Question of the week: If you could make one change to New Hampshire’s property tax system, what would it be? Share your thoughts.

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(Courtesy of Pam Anderson)

📸 Shoutout to Pam Anderson for sharing this photo from a recent adventure at Gould Hill Farm in Contoocook.

🍎 Fun fact: Gould Hill Farm has been growing fruit in Contoocook for more than a century and offers sweeping views of the surrounding New Hampshire landscape.

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🔗 Related: 7 great apple orchards in NH

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🏢 Data centers are becoming a major political fight …

The US House voted 417-3 for legislation requiring states to consider making large data centers cover the additional electricity and infrastructure costs they create. President Donald Trump has criticized opposition to data centers, while lawmakers in both parties have proposed different approaches to regulating them. States Newsroom

🗳️ Voting rights groups are preparing for potential problems at the polls …

Common Cause plans to deploy thousands of volunteers in 25 states, while the Democratic Party says it will send 10,000 volunteers across all 50 states and seven US territories. The efforts come amid concerns about potential federal law enforcement activity at polling places and disputes over election rules. States Newsroom

🏥 Nearly 4,900 fewer Granite Staters are enrolled in ACA health plans …

New Hampshire enrollment fell 8% from 2025 to 2026 after enhanced federal premium tax credits expired. Nearly 50,000 people in the state had used the credits in 2025. New Hampshire Bulletin

New Hampshire has no sales or income tax but it has one of the highest property tax rates in the country.

So this week’s question is:

If you could make one change to New Hampshire’s property tax system, what would it be?

Here’s what you’re saying:

“I would impose a statewide income tax, such as Volinsky’s 3-3 Tax Savings Plan. The plan includes exemptions for each taxpayer and their dependents so that a two-parent household earning $100,000 with two children pays zero income tax. The plan would generate billions in state revenue to significantly offset the $4.7 billion generated in 2025 from the extremely regressive local property tax. There is no rational, good faith argument against some form of state income tax, which is why it generated a death threat from the Libertarian Party of NH—the same party that was ejected from the National Libertarian Party in May for other threats, that currently controls the NH House, Senate, executive council, and governorship, and that was created by the out of state billionaires who brought us Project 2025. The next best change would be to reinstate the interest and dividends tax, which generated $185 million in 2024 from those most able to afford it. The third best change would be to eliminate the education freedom accounts, which cost $52 million in 2025.”
— Bill Black

Thanks for reading. This newsletter was written by Katy Savage. It was edited by Crystal Niforos

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