Recent comments in /f/newhampshire
McGauth925 t1_j85jcji wrote
Reply to Police investigating security threat at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport by pewterpetunia
I suspect this is related to the thinking that some on the ultra-right have about sabotaging power grids and such. As in, they think creating an emergency will lead to the kind of leadership they desire, along with the repression of all that they don't desire.
AnythingToAvoidWork t1_j85j6hr wrote
Reply to comment by redeggplant01 in It's increasingly economical to install large solar facilities in states that don't get as much sun, like NH; DoE says it's competitive with "the cost of burning fuel in existing gas-fired generators." Use the $ you'd spend on a nat-gas plant's fuel to install a solar farm instead! by TurretLauncher
> taxes ( theft )
I'll never not mock people who actually believe this.
cwalton505 t1_j85ga2p wrote
Reply to comment by TurretLauncher in Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
I don't see how that changes anything from a legal standpoint. And I will reiterate the sign is fine and they should adjust the bylaws.
brain_freese t1_j85eg14 wrote
Reply to Moving from SL, UT to MMK, NH in May for work. Looking for affordable 2 bed house and things to do there. Flexible housing location. Would love recommendations. :) by clearedtopush
SL, UT is one of the funnier looking shortened city names.
You’ll be in the Manchester city limits for your budget most likely. Might get lucky and find something outside of the city, but waitlists are long.
fins4ever t1_j85dhfu wrote
Reply to Police investigating security threat at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport by pewterpetunia
What in the world is going on
starhoppers t1_j85cr26 wrote
TurretLauncher t1_j85ckla wrote
Reply to Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
Conway Zoning Board of Adjustment:
Term Expires
2023 John Colbath, Chair
2024 Andrew Chalmers, Vice Chair
2023 Luigi Bartolomeo
2025 Richard Pierce
2025 Jonathan Hebert
2023 Jac Cuddy, Alternate
2025 Steven Steiner, Alternate
cat-gun t1_j85cg8i wrote
Reply to comment by starhoppers in Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
Dildo murals for all!
_Im_A_Five_Star_Man_ t1_j85anb8 wrote
Reply to comment by cat-gun in Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
no one agrees with whatever this idiot hall monitor bureaucrat is trying to enforce. But letting it bother you THIS much doesn't prove you're a libertarian, it proves you're fragile and easily rattled.
TurretLauncher t1_j85ac0b wrote
Reply to Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
A bakery owner filed a federal lawsuit against the town of Conway, New Hampshire, on Tuesday after officials demanded he paint over a mural that local high school students created last summer. Leavitt’s Country Bakery owner Sean Young teamed up with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to file the lawsuit, which argues that Conway’s sign code violates his and other town residents’ First Amendment rights.
Leavitt’s is so loved that a group of Kennett High School students offered to paint a mural for the business. The students decided that the mural should depict a colorful mountainscape of baked goods with the sun rising behind them, in honor of the nearby White Mountains. The mural, which was unveiled in June 2022, became an instant hit with Leavitt’s customers.
The assistant building inspector informed Sean that he could apply for a variance to keep the mural up. When Sean did so in September 2022, he had the backing of Conway residents: More than 1,000 people commented on Leavitt’s Facebook page in support of the mural and scores of letters to the editor have been published in the Conway Daily Sun arguing that the mural should stay. Yet the Conway Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA) voted unanimously against granting the bakery a variance. Then, in November, the ZBA doubled down, again denying the variance.
“I couldn’t believe the town was going after me for giving high school students a way to express their artistic passions and contribute something fun and delightful to the community,” Sean said. “This mural isn’t hurting anyone. If anything, it has brought the community together.”
Trying to right this wrong and avoid litigation, IJ sent a letter to Conway officials in December 2022 urging town officials to back off Leavitt’s. As IJ’s letter explained, the town’s sign code was both confusing and unconstitutional. Although IJ offered to help the town craft a new sign code, it refused the offer, instead sending Sean yet another letter ordering him to either get a sign permit or take down the mural forever.
“Leavitt’s mural is beautiful and showcases what can be accomplished when a community comes together,” IJ Litigation Fellow Betsy Sanz said. “Conway’s crackdown on this artwork serves no legitimate government interest.”
IJ’s fight against similar violations of the First Amendment rights of small business owners throughout the country includes a 2020 victory that allowed a North Dakota saloon to keep up its mural, a 2017 win for a Florida video game store that wanted to display an inflatable Mario in front of its store, and a 2013 ruling which permitted a California gym to advertise on a sandwich board out front.
TurretLauncher t1_j858r9r wrote
Reply to comment by cwalton505 in Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
It's literally "a mural that local high school students created last summer."
TurretLauncher t1_j858959 wrote
Reply to comment by starhoppers in Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
That's called majoritarianism, and it's exactly what the Bill of Rights was meant to prevent:
> The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
US Supreme Court, in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
Doug_Shoe t1_j857ftt wrote
Reply to comment by nunyadangbidnit in Moving from SL, UT to MMK, NH in May for work. Looking for affordable 2 bed house and things to do there. Flexible housing location. Would love recommendations. :) by clearedtopush
Why did you like Utah better?
Doug_Shoe t1_j8579tm wrote
cwalton505 t1_j856z7s wrote
Reply to comment by TurretLauncher in Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
Dude you're 20 years late to make that comment accurate. But for your enjoyment: No cap, fr fr.
cwalton505 t1_j856kev wrote
Reply to comment by cat-gun in Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
they can be more restrictive but not in violation of. FFS you and the sundown laws..
You can prohibit the sale of alcohol in a county or town. That's more restrictive but not in violation of the fucking constitution. What do you not understand? A permanent sign on a business is not protected via the first amendment or the constitution. Good lord.
cat-gun t1_j8564vz wrote
Reply to comment by cwalton505 in Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
No, in theory, towns aren't allowed to have laws more restrictive than the US or State constitution. That's why no state or city can pass sundown ordinances in modern times. Agree that the town should change the law (or lose the court case).
starhoppers t1_j855snk wrote
Reply to comment by TurretLauncher in Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
If the people Conway don’t want the eyesores of big signs, they have every right to put that in zoning laws. It’s called democracy! Enjoying your Freedom responsibly doesn’t mean doing anything you want to do and the hell with everyone else.
bigdog24681012 t1_j855c70 wrote
Reply to Police investigating security threat at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport by pewterpetunia
Of course it was Spirit Airlines
rolls eyes
TurretLauncher t1_j853vu2 wrote
Reply to comment by cwalton505 in Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
This is the speech of high school students.
cat-gun t1_j853vlx wrote
Reply to comment by cwalton505 in Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
I didn't say they were equivalently evil acts. I used the "sundown laws" as an example to establish the principle that there exist a ) immoral laws that should not be obeyed b) laws that can't be easily changed by the victim of the law.
While suppressing the baker's free speech rights is not an equivalent offense, it's a violation of his free speech rights (and therefore immoral) and trying to change the law is likely to be a futile effort (which I think the people making the suggestion know).
TarantinoFan23 t1_j853uz2 wrote
Reply to comment by AppointmentLow9526 in Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
The little sign seems like a part of tbe big sign. Thats seems lile the actual issue here. Separate them. Problem solved
Whiskey-Guns-Trucks t1_j853a2t wrote
Reply to Moving from SL, UT to MMK, NH in May for work. Looking for affordable 2 bed house and things to do there. Flexible housing location. Would love recommendations. :) by clearedtopush
Can't wait to move there! New Hampshire sis the best place in New England.
cwalton505 t1_j852x6n wrote
Reply to comment by cat-gun in Bakery Owner Sues [Conway] New Hampshire Town After Officials Demand He Paint Over Donut Mural Made by High Schoolers by ArbitraryOrder
Your continued correlation of this sign issue to historical abject racism in multiple threads is fucking weird and I am not going to get into it past here. This is not even close from a morality standpoint, and its gross to compare the two like they are equivalent. The people in the town can change the sign law as they all agree on and deem fit. A sign is not a person. Comparing this silly sign issue as a tribulation to those oppressed by sundown laws is fucking disgusting honestly.
AnythingToAvoidWork t1_j85jefc wrote
Reply to comment by clearedtopush in Moving from SL, UT to MMK, NH in May for work. Looking for affordable 2 bed house and things to do there. Flexible housing location. Would love recommendations. :) by clearedtopush
North of the notches is probably your best bet