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At its first remote meeting on Zoom, the state Air Resources Council voted 5-0 Monday to accept the 100-page appeal, which was filed by the town on March 24.
The legislature and Sununu clashed last week after he announced the creation of the Governor’s Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery (GOFERR) to determine how to spend $1.25 billion in federal money the state is slated to receive through the federal $2.2 trillion CARES Act approved last month.
Steve Taylor, a lifelong New Hampshire resident, is a farmer, writer and scholar of rural life.
The new cases reside in Rockingham (31), Hillsborough County other than Manchester and Nashua (9), Grafton (2), Merrimack (2), Strafford (2) counties, Belknap (1), and Cheshire (1), and in the cities of Manchester (6) and Nashua (2).
The state is purchasing the entire shipment and will distribute supplies to the areas of greatest need across the state as part of its ongoing effort to fight COVID-19.
Under the proposal, traditional fiscal oversight by the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee and the Executive Council, both controlled by Democrats, is bypassed.
The Fiscal Committee is important because it can act swiftly, with deep knowledge, public accountability, and transparency when the legislature is in session and when it is not.
Community-based transmission continues to increase in the State and has been identified in all counties with cases.
The Big Tease. All fly fishers are familiar with it. The first unusually warm days in March or April maks one think that spring is here.