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State revenues, while ahead of a year ago, are not enough for Legislative leaders to support fixing the retirement system for firefighters and police officers without waiting for more information and analysis.
Several incidents occurred in the last month that either did not go before the ethics committee or were processed in a way to avoid the sunshine that is the public’s right-to-know.
The Lottery Commission scheduled an adjudicative hearing at the request of Concord Casino owner Andy Sanborn to contest the state’s findings that he is unfit to hold a charity casino operator’s license.
While the controversial organization’s foot in the door was lamented by many after the vote, the on-line financial literacy course will not “cost” the state anything, which cannot be said about the biggest battleground in the education war, the Education Freedom Accounts program.
After three hours of public testimony, the vast majority in opposition to approving a PragerU financial literacy course, the state Board of Education approved the application.
A lawsuit seeking remote access to the House of Representatives by disabled members was dismissed Monday by the U.S. District Court.
Casino gambling was one of the first proposals studied to increase funding for public education after the Claremont education lawsuit was decided by the state Supreme Court.
State revenues for August are slightly above target, but business taxes, the driver of revenue surpluses the past few years, are below estimates as were all the state’s major revenue producers.
As everyone knows, the New Hampshire House is the third largest legislative body in the English speaking world, only behind the US House and the United Kingdom’s House of Commons.