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The Senate Ways and Means Committee recommended killing three bills Wednesday that would have supported cyanobacteria mitigation and prevention and maintaining state dams.
After nearly two hours of testimony in support of a national battery recycling program for New Hampshire, the Senate Ways and Means Committee decided the bill ought to be killed.
Newington, spends 29 percent of its total property taxes on schools; Sunapee, 52 percent; Newport, 59 percent, and Charlestown, 69 percent.
Refusing a breath test for alcohol or using a cell phone while driving will be more costly for drivers after House action Thursday.
The long simmering acrimony between the two parties in the House came to a boil Thursday when two Democrats were stopped by partisan votes from speeches on the House floor.
Property tax rates vary from about $2.62 to $36.54 per $1,000 of property value resulting in substantial differences in tax bills for similar homes across the state.
March state revenues are critical to New Hampshire’s fiscal landscape for the remainder of the fiscal year.
In New Hampshire, the third rail of politics — thanks to people like William Loeb and Meldrim Thomson and now the Americans for Prosperity — is the word tax.
New state revenue data collected over a 15-year period by The Pew Charitable Trusts indicates New Hampshire has the fourth-worst trend of the 50 states for bouncing back revenue wise after the COVID-19 pandemic.