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A new state prison for men in Concord might cost as much as $500 million.
That sticker shock settled in over the Executive Council table Wednesday as councillors talked about plans for the future on the current prison grounds off North State Street.
Saying she sees “no fair or reasonable path forward to adequately defend herself” at a hearing before the Executive Council Wednesday on whether to suspend her for the rest of her term, Fish and Game Commissioner Susan Price resigned as the Carroll County commissioner.
Vail Resorts has been given conditional approval for its annual operating plan for Mount Sunapee after questions surfaced about the need and environmental impact of building a fourth parking lot on the state park property.
“Cyanobacteria is the biggest threat to New Hampshire that no one knows about, ” said Rosemarie Ring, D-Salem, who in 2022 with state Sen. Suzanne Prentiss, D-Lebanon, sponsored a bill to create the 17-member Cyanobacteria Plan Advisory Committee to create a report “supported by scientific data” which “shall include measurable milestones,” and a state strategy to prevent the increase and eventually control cyanobacteria blooms.
Any resurrected legislative deal would also have to be approved by Sununu who sounded unlikely to do any more negotiating on the subject, when he answered InDepthNH.org’s questions last week at a press briefing in his office. It would also require a two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate.
Cyanobacteria warnings and watches have the attention of many lake associations across the state as New Hampshire faces its worst summer ever dealing with toxins emitted from the blooms of blue green algae.
A bill that would eliminate all new voter identification exceptions at the polls this fall is on its way to the governor’s desk but he sounded unlikely to sign it on Wednesday, citing the tight time frame for implementation before a Presidential election.
Work will begin immediately on the summit of Mount Washington to assess its environmental condition and make recommendations to minimize the negative impacts on the fragile alpine zone into the future.
A proposal to allow a floating oyster farm in the Great Bay Estuary in Broad Cove for the next 10 years has been sunk by the Fish and Game Department after numerous people and agencies opposed it.