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Garry Rayno

Garry Rayno’s Distant Dome runs exclusively on Manchester Ink Link and InDepthNH.org, where Rayno will explore a broader perspective on State House – and state – happenings. Over his three-decade career Rayno has closely covered the NH State House for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Foster’s Daily Democrat, and his coverage spanned the news spectrum, from local planning, school and select boards, to national issues such as electric industry deregulation and Presidential primaries. He is former editor of The Hillsboro Messenger and Assistant Editor of The Argus-Champion. Rayno graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a BA in English Literature and lives with his wife Carolyn in New London.

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Voting Bill Heads to the Supreme Court As Lawmakers Head Home At Week’s End

You could ask how does a state budget go $100 million out of whack in a half-a-dozen months.

Lawmakers will grapple with that question this week in what are expected to be the final sessions of the 2017-18 legislature bar an adverse Supreme Court ruling on voting rights after lawmakers go home at the end of the week.

School Voucher Bill Revived By Some Bare-Knuckle NH Politics

While the shenanigans are routine this time of year, what happened with the voucher bill or Freedom Scholarships or Senate Bill 193 last week is an example of heavy-handed politics practiced with a sledge hammer.

Rubber Meets Lawmaker Road: School Vouchers, Transgender Rights, Burgess BioPower

With less than a month to go in the 2018 session, lawmakers face some of the biggest decisions they will make this term.

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Lawmakers Mull Adding New Payers To Medicaid Enhancement Tax Rolls

For nearly 39 years, hospitals’ uncompensated care has been the gift that keeps on giving. From the early 1990’s to today, the ebb and flow between hospitals and lawmakers has ranged from kumbaya moments to volcanic eruptions over uncompensated care.

Business & Economy

Lawmakers Mull Berlin Power, School Worker Death Benefits Amid House-Senate Tax Battle

The Senate Thursday is expected to approve a bill that would pay a public school employee’s family a death benefit of $100,000 if the person is killed while performing his or her job.

News

Week To Watch: Medicaid Expansion, Recovery Workplace, Death Penalty, More

Lots happening for lawmakers and you coming this week including a public hearing on Senate Bill 593, which would end the state’s death penalty replacing it with life without parole, which passed the Senate but Sununu said he will veto it. The hearing is in Room 204 of the Legislative Office Building at 10 a.m. on Wednesday.