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State Rep. Marjorie Smith, D-Durham, offered a bill that she said would be “constitutional, equitable and fair” to adequately fund public education across the state but opponents said it would be a huge cost burden to property taxpayers in a tough year.
Releasing balloons into the atmosphere would be a form of littering punishable by a $250 fine under a bill heard in the legislature Wednesday.
A bill that would change the way the state addresses excess funds paid to municipalities for the use of school districts went to a hearing Tuesday.
Enabling legislation that would allow municipalities to tax standing wood and timber on land used for carbon sequestration went to a public hearing Monday with a mix of support and opposition.
The new Democratic Congresswoman, Maggie Goodlander of New Hampshire’s District 2, held a virtual town hall style discussion with Granite State residents and mayors from her district from Nashua, Claremont, Franklin, Berlin and Concord on Friday at noon.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte said she sees great potential for recruiting Canadian investors to come to New Hampshire to establish their businesses here and she is willing to go there to help recruit businesses.
The new Republican governor has tapped Andrew Cline of Bedford for reappointment to the State Board of Education and Stephen M. Duprey of Concord to another term on the Business Finance Authority.
Hundreds of protesters expressing concern about the recent actions by the new Trump Administration in Washington came to the State House Wednesday to voice their anger, part of a 50-state demonstration.
The Laconia State School property is still on track to be sold and developed into a multi-family mixed use community by Pillsbury Development, though the process could take another 18 months, the state’s Executive Council was told Wednesday.