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Judge Colburn - Check the Credibility of Nashua's Attorneys

I suspect that the city attorneys know the judges will align with the city, and the court will do its utmost to accommodate the city.   This might be a reasonable approach if the City were dealing in good faith and honoring their words stated in court.

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Laurie OrtolanoMarch 18, 2024Comment
Nashua Judges have to stop enabling Nashua’s Corporation Counsel Attorney Bolton

The above are instances of three different judges accommodating Mr. Bolton regardless of the burden his demands placed on plaintiffs and court time. It is puzzling why judges would enable Mr. Bolton by accepting his assertion that he would not communicate directly with opposing plaintiffs.

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Laurie OrtolanoMarch 13, 2024Comment
Nashua's Malicious Email Game

The requester reopened both lawsuits, filed a protective order, a contempt order and an RTK lawsuit. The hearing is on April 22, 2024 at Nashua Superior Court.

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Laurie OrtolanoFebruary 29, 2024 Comment
HB1002 - Right to Know Request Fees

HB1002 recently passed the House by about a dozen votes and now heads to the Senate for deliberations. This Bill permits municipalities to establish a policy to charge up to $25 per hour for requests that take over 10 hours to fill.

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Laurie OrtolanoFebruary 4, 2024Comment
Nashua Performing Arts Center - The New Markets Tax Credit Transaction that Resulted in the Misuse of Public Funds
Nashua Performing Arts Center - The New Markets Tax Credit Transaction that Resulted in the Misuse of Public Funds
Laurie OrtolanoSeptember 23, 2023Comment
The Colossal Stupidity of the Nashua Legal Office
The Colossal Stupidity of the Nashua Legal Office

The PCC and the State must make an example out of Attorney Bolton’s and Attorney Leonard’s despicable practice of municipal law, disbar them and enact oversight to prevent this from happening elsewhere.

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Laurie OrtolanoAugust 27, 2022Comment
How Much are Nashuans Willing to Pay for Secrecy?
How Much are Nashuans Willing to Pay for Secrecy?

Laws exist that permit citizen access to meetings and records but without the good will of those serving to provide access and records, it all falls apart.

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Laurie OrtolanoJuly 27, 2022Comment
Nashua’s Illegal and Corrupt Project – The Nashua Performing Arts Center (NPAC)

Economic Development Director Cummings and Mr. Lannan, non-resident Nashua Appointee have robbed citizens of our legal rights and are spending tens of millions of dollars without allowing any public oversight.

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Laurie OrtolanoJuly 18, 2022Comment
Should You Pay Your Taxes?

Mayor Donchess actually confirmed this at his recent public coffee stating that residential property owners are not subject to any legal action from the City if they do not pay their taxes.

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Laurie OrtolanoJuly 15, 2022Comment
Move on, Director Cummings
Move on, Director Cummings

Mr. Cummings is running covert operations with extravagant projects paid for by taxpayers.

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Laurie OrtolanoJuly 14, 2022Comment
More Big Projects for Nashua's Future
More Big Projects for Nashua's Future

Mr. Cummings stated that these high costs are because the City wants to engage the public and encourage their participation, especially on the Main Street Downtown project. Really?

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Laurie OrtolanoJuly 12, 2022 Comment
Mayor Donchess no longer supports the Vision Property Assessment Revaluation

At Tuesday’s Budget Hearing, His Honor stated that if it were his choice, he would not be undertaking a property revaluation now. He blamed the state for this mess for ordering the 2022 update. Your Honor’s remarks were disingenuous, incredulous and just plain whiny.

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Laurie OrtolanoJune 25, 2022Comment
What is going on between His Honor and Nashua's Corporation Counsel?

It is distinctly unbecoming for a public body such as Nashua to simultaneously attack its citizens for burdening the City by exercising their rights to access public records, and at the same time increasing the burden on itself (and by extension, the taxpayers) by hewing to the strictest reading of the law for no apparent purpose., Attorney Lehmann

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Laurie OrtolanoMay 23, 2022Comment
Silencing the Public at the Nashua Budget Meetings

The public’s voice should be welcomed at a meeting involving the spending of our tax dollars. I have every right to express my dissatisfaction in the spending of my money in departments I believe are mismanaged.

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Laurie OrtolanoMay 17, 2022Comment
Nashua Board of Health - Stop the Fear Messaging

Two years into covid, the initial flat-footed response was understandable, but we are well past this point and life moves on. Sometimes it takes science a while to figure it out.

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Laurie OrtolanoFebruary 2, 2022 Comment
"No one has the absolute right to drive drunk" - Nashua's Mask Mandate

Aldermen/Attorney Dave Tencza has equated the choice on mask wearing to drunk driving. A poorly conceived parallel. “No one has the absolute right to drive drunk.”, said Tencza at Tuesday’s Board of Aldermen meeting.

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Laurie OrtolanoDecember 23, 2021Comment
Nashua Aldermanic President Lori Wilshire – Where is the leadership?

The Board will have the opportunity to select a new Board president in a few weeks. Let’s hope new leadership will honor the decorum and rules required of elected officials and deserved by the public.

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Laurie OrtolanoDecember 19, 2021Comment
Call to Action - Voice Concern on Permanent Main Street Barriers

If you oppose PERMANENT Main Street Barries, make you opinion know to the Board of Alderman.

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Laurie OrtolanoNovember 16, 2021Comment
Spend, Spend, Spend

Now that election season has ended, the Mayor is aggressively jamming through legislation and spending.

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Laurie OrtolanoNovember 13, 2021Comment
The Nashua Legal Offices abuse of Seniors

Senior citizen newcomers to Nashua filed an abatement on their 2016 residential property assessment believing the assessment unfair. The City denied it.

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Laurie OrtolanoNovember 12, 2021Comment
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