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A week after lobstermen packed a hearing on a bill to prevent a new permit to allow people to dive for lobster, the committee heard largely from the other side Tuesday saying the measure is fair and reasonable.
Berlin’s Burgess BioPower plant could go bankrupt if the state doesn’t agree to forgive about $50 million in debt as part of a 2010 power agreement, a Senate committee was told Tuesday.
The problem was of a lack of snow and good temperatures to make snow at the beginning of the season which kept visitors away, particularly in important vacation weeks.
CONCORD – Pro-life advocates shed tears, recited Biblical scripture, showed photos of abortions and baby onesies and outnumbered doctors and pro-choice advocates in testimony on a pair of bills related to abortion rights Thursday.
Reform of the state’s five-year-old bail reform laws is the subject of two bills getting traction in the State House now.
A bill related to the siting of new landfills in the state – which has passed the House – was heard by a Senate committee Tuesday with opposition expressed from the landfill industry, geologists, and the state Department of Environmental Services.
Lobstermen packed a hearing overwhelmingly opposed to a bill that would establish a license to take lobsters by SCUBA in House Bill 442.
A bill to prohibit communities in the state from declaring themselves “sanctuary” cities or towns passed 13-10 in the state Senate Thursday along with a measure that would send to the voters the question of putting the first-in-the-nation primary in the state Constitution.
After exhausting all other appeal chances, a bid by Pam Smart to compel the Governor and Executive Council to reconsider giving her a commutation hearing failed with the state Supreme Court Wednesday.