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Unfortunately, that unbiased opinion is currently thought to be more than slightly tainted judging by some of the decisions made by courts, particularly the US Supreme Court with the potential for tarnishing New Hampshire’s.
Lawmakers will be back for one more session to deal with Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s vetoes, and although it appears very unlikely, there is always the possibility of a special session for one emergency or another.
State revenues for May, the next to last month in the 2026 fiscal year, are slightly more than budget writers anticipated.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald will not recuse himself from deciding the appeal of the Rand education funding lawsuit now before the court.
On the day House members learned House Speaker Sherman Packard was stepping down, lawmakers Thursday killed a bill that would have limited cities’ and towns’ ability to write ordinances or rules for firearms and self-defense tools as well as state agencies.
Lawmakers approved a statewide school spending cap provision that will allow voters at the next two state general elections to decide if they want to cap school district budgets.
The legislature has passed a business enterprise tax cut which Democrats claim can only mean that property taxpayers will pick up the difference.
Attorney General John Formella wants lawmakers to kill the compromise on House Bill 609 tomorrow, saying it creates too many unintended consequences which could harm rather than help gun owners, and could put public safety at risk.
During the Committee of Conference phase of this year’s legislative session, 14 bills were killed ranging from the “Charlie Act” seeking to restrict school curriculum on such things as socialism, LGBTQ topics, or anything that appears to some as Un-American to ending the state’s refugee resettlement program.