S04E02: The Fishy Scooter Ordinance

News

• Failing Fish and Game eyes bail-out
• • http://www.unionleader.com/news/environment/panel-offers-prescription-for-struggling-wildlife-agency/article_c94f3e08-64e7-561a-8622-224ba561c772.html?block_id=664688
  • Having the agency pay for itself makes the most sense, paying out of the general fund will unmoor it from reality, like other agencies
  • Taking violations out of the court system makes sense
  • Canoe licenses make sense
  • Getting more federal money will come at a price of more federal control
  • Rescues from White Mountains National Forest should be paid by private insurance and hikers should require insurance to go up there
  • • The idea that the state (ie everyone who lives around you) should pay for your hiking mistakes is morally outrageous
  • Liberty Stance: Privatize the lake or whatever body of water and let the shareholders of the lake’s corporation determine what’s to be done. Walter Block wrote a book The Case for Privatizing Oceans, Rivers, Lakes and Aquifiers https://mises.org/library/water-capitalism-case-privatizing-oceans-rivers-lakes-and-aquifers
• Former Portsmouth Police commissioner and partner indicted in shooting case
• • http://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/former-portsmouth-police-commissioner-partner-indicted-in-shooting-case/article_378bf097-ee35-58c3-b677-d036e502e787.html?block_id=664688
  • Shot fired when teen intruder was fleeing, not when in the home
  • Like any dangerous job, training can remove danger by replacing emotional reaction with calm competence
  • A forklift driver who panicked and killed a co-worker as a consequence could not simply claim “Well I have a dangerous job.” This is childish excuse making.
• Manchester Police looking into body cameras (Matt)
• • http://www.unionleader.com/news/crime/manchester-police-looking-at-body-cameras-for-officers-price-tag/article_d97ffda6-dbed-50c3-bf2b-afa865affc34.html?block_id=664686
  • Between $250 and $900k
  • If funding is an issue, let go of some officers or admin.
  • Don’t let the Police Chief decide. His input should be noted though.
• Check out Radley Balko’s blog for de-escalation and themarshallproject.org
• Battle for Secretary of State wages on
• • “New Hampshire is one of three states where legislators choose the chief election official, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.”
  • http://www.nhpr.org/post/lawmakers-face-mounting-pressure-both-sides-secretary-state-race
  • Van Ostern’s site http://vanostern.com/our-platform-free-fair-new-hampshire/
  • Bill Gardner, believe it or not. No website. But the secretary of state’s website http://sos.nh.gov/
• Portsmouth NH Passes scooter ordinance: (matt)
• • http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20181126/portsmouth-passes-scooter-ordinance
  • Why?
  • Has accumulation of these things become a problem? I thought Bird paid people to gather these up?
  • Link to LA times article criticizing Birds https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bird-scooter-vandalism-20180809-story.html

Events

• Freecoast Liberty Outreach Meetup (Please only talk about this week’s)
• • Rochester meet-up this Thursday the 29th
• Seacoast Holiday Fun
• • 39th Annual Candlelight Stroll at Strawbery Banke http://www.seacoastonline.com/thingstodo?_ev_id=314567_39th_annual_candlelight_stroll
  • Seacoast Media group runs Gift of Warmth for families struggling to pay for fuel this Winter http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20181125/gift-of-warmth-opens-as-winter-arrives
  • Four baby goats up for adoption from Throwback Brewery http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20181121/throwback-brewerys-baby-goats-up-for-adoption
  • Nubble lighthouse decked out for the Christmas season http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20181124/lighting-of-nubble-ushers-in-holiday-season

NH History

• Early History Keene
• • Granted a township in 1732 by Massachusetts Governor Jonathan Belcher
  • • Originally named Upper Ashuelot
  • In 1741 NH and Massachusetts settled their boundary dispute and the town was north of the new line
  • • It was a miniature republic, setting its own laws and managed its own political affairs without higher influence.
    • Upper Ashuelot took no part in provincial affairs for 27 years. Most of the Connecticut river valley wasn’t at the general assembly.
  • The first interaction the town had with the province, as it was then, was for the refusal to pay taxes for the support of the minister
  • • From the provincial records 1742: “I am therefore by his Excellency's Command to inform the respective Inhabitants, that it will be very agreable to the Governor that you & each of you, who have been delinquent on that occasion, do forthwith comply with your obligations in regard to the payment of your Ministers, as a contrary behavior will incur his Excellency's displeasure.”
  • In 1747 during King George’s war, part of the French and Indian wars, indigenous americans attacked the village and burnt it down.
  • People started resettling there as early as 1749 but due to the whole boundary issue before Governor Benning Wentworth regranted the town after a petition was gathered.
  • • “Claiming the right to name the town, the governor named it Keene. In his business as merchant at Portsmouth, previous to his appointment as governor, Mr. Wentworth had contracted with an agent of the court of Spain to supply that government with a large quantity of oak timber. To meet the expense involved he borrowed money in London. When he delivered the timber at Cadiz the agent with whom he had made the contract was out of office and the new agent declined to pay. On his voyage home his ship foundered and he was saved with the crew in a boat, to find himself bankrupt. Afterwards he made another voyage to Spain and claimed payment for his timber. Sir Benjamin Keene was then the English minister to Spain, and he used his influence to aid Mr. Wentworth, who, though unsuccessful in his suit, formed a warm friendship for Sir Benjamin, and his gratitude, and his admiration for the man, led him to name this town in his honor

 

• Named after an attempted bailout

 

• https://ci.keene.nh.us/keene-public-library/griffin-history-town-keene

 

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