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– Healthcare, business, and elder affairs leaders across the state spoke strongly in favor of a permanent expanded Medicaid program without a sunset clause saying it will save the state money in the end and help with better health outcomes for residents.
In a strong show of bipartisan unity, the House voted 356-6 to support New Hampshire’s role of holding the first-in-the-nation, as it is under attack by the Democratic National Committee.
Gov. Chris Sununu is “enthusiastically” supporting the Twin States Clean Energy Link, a proposed 1,200-megawatt power transmission project which would run hydropower through Vermont and New Hampshire underground in the North Country, to add to the region’s power grid.
Associate Attorney General Anne M. Edwards Parker said she has hoped to be a judge since becoming a lawyer in the 1980s and was inspired to pursue the law to help the people of New Hampshire as a way of giving back.
A bill declaring May 3 Old Man of the Mountain Day in New Hampshire was signed by Gov. Chris Sununu in a ceremony that included original music, the unveiling of a crystal etching, and a prayer.
The public will get a chance on Wednesday to weigh in on the nomination of Associate Attorney General Anne M. Edwards Parker of Milford to be a Superior Court judge.
A special legislative committee on the family division of the Circuit Court heard its first testimony Tuesday about the system and what should be changed through law or funding.
potential big win for the state’s electric ratepayers that would enable utilities to enter into long-term power agreements for new and likely mostly renewable projects passed by a unanimous vote by the House Science, Technology and Energy Committee to the House on Monday.
– New Hampshire has a climate change denial problem and is behind its neighbors on renewable energy but there are some bright spots in proposed legislation, said state Rep. Tony Caplan, D-Henniker.