County Political Mullet Extension

How Ossipee found a loophole roomy enough for one man to keep the gavel, the inspection file, and a hand on the money map In New Hampshire, the law says a full-time town employee cannot also be a selectman. That part is simple. Clean. Almost refreshing, really. Then comes the part where small-town government squints at the wording, slides a finger under the sentence, and starts looking for daylight. Because RSA 669:7 bars full-time town employees from serving as selectmen, bu

How Carroll County starts looking less like local government and more like one long game of musical chairs

It is that the system may still be treating the paperwork like it is the truth , while the truth is still standing out there in the yard

Around here, money is starting to act like fertilizer. Spread it where it is supposed to go, and maybe something useful grows. Hoard it in the same little corner, and before long the whole place starts to stink. That is what this story is about Not just raises. Not just titles. Not just one ugly meeting. It is about what happens when the same overlapping power structure keeps turning up at the budget table, in the enforcement office, around county pay decisions, and then next

The raise around here lately is handed out as an incentive, and is equivalent to what some call a years salary!! Around here, money works a lot like fertilizer: spread it where it is supposed to go, and things grow; pile it up in the same little corner, and before long the whole place starts to stink. That is what makes Ossipee’s latest round of raises, role overlap, and conveniently timed back-room maneuvers feel less like normal government and more like a compost heap with

The growth of the mullet seems to extend from small town politics, state level funding development, into county level financial decisions. And at some point it starts to blend just like a good haircut. Only this one hides a rats nest underneath Because the newest incentive in the ongoing Political Mullet saga is not subtle. According to the Conway Daily Sun story, Smith said the latest slate of elected-official raises was his initiative. Those screenshots show future pay for