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Most of the attention will be on the presidential race and the two open races in New Hampshire for governor and the 2nd Congressional District, but what will have a far greater effect on your life will be who are the members elected to the New Hampshire House and Senate.
The House Thursday approved two bills that supporters say will be a step forward to addressing the state’s housing crisis, but critics called it top down zoning from the state.
The House approved House Bill 1145 which would require new landfills to be owned by the state or its political subdivisions but managed by a private contractor and would prohibit any future landfills from being privately owned.
The House Thursday took the first step to ensuring Adam Montgomery faces the family and loved ones of the daughter he is convicted of murdering when he is sentenced for his crime May 9.
The state Supreme Court on Wednesday granted the state’s and Coalition Communities 2.0’s motions to stop implementation of Superior Court Judge David Ruoff’s ruling declaring the state’s administering of the Statewide Education Property Tax unconstitutional.
A proposal to “re-characterize” local property taxes into a state tax was generally supported at a public hearing Tuesday, but a statewide school budget cap in the same proposal was not.
The biggest problem is that housing is unaffordable in New Hampshire and there are many reasons for that including from buying houses for investment by converting them into short-term rentals to the great migration from the cities to rural areas during the COVID pandemic.
The House voted to allow the terminally ill the right to determine when and how they die, as 10 other states allow.
A proposal to use turnpike toll credits to establish a noise barrier construction fund may pass the legislature, but there is little likelihood it would generate the revenue needed to speed more barrier construction, a committee was told.