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Using money the state received from its settlement with Volkswagen, Manchester will swap out about 14 diesel school buses and replace them with cleaner ones that use propane.
Andrew Wilson is a 10th grader at Lin-Wood Public School.
Everyone agrees more money is needed for the state’s highway system, but they also disagree about the fairest method.
“Rather than embracing the successful policies of Republican leadership, Democrats seem content to repeatedly try to undermine New Hampshire’s economic progress by mandating a 100% wage hike for some,” said House Republican Leader Dick Hinch.
Eversource wants to increase its annual revenues in New Hampshire by almost $70 million. That amounts to a rate hike of nearly 20 percent.
The “Red Flag” bill’s prime sponsor Rep. Debra Altschiller, D-Stratham, said since the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee first held a public hearing on the bill last spring, the state’s suicide and homicide rates have grown.
The Senate worked through 74 bills on the regular and consent calendar at breakneck speed sending many to interim study or outright killing them as inexpedient to legislate, finishing their work shortly after 1 p.m.
They would expand access to net metering, open new opportunities for clean energy development, and allow towns to better control their electric bills, Gov. Sununu said.
What they found was not surprising: Cold, snowy winters brought more visitors and generated more economic activity than warm, slushier winters.