Battle of the Think Tanks

The Union Leader editorializes about the House and Senate leadership's reliance on the left-leaning New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies, and wonders if budget writers will be as open to free-market advice from groups such as the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy:

Now, there is nothing wrong with hearing, and weighing, such options.

But have the Democrats in charge, or even the Republican minority, heard from or plan to invite the head of a right-leaning New Hampshire "think tank" to Concord to hear his views?

They should. But if they don't, they can read Charles M. Arlinghaus, president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, each Wednesday in the New Hampshire Union Leader.