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Financial issues and challenges faced by faced by NH companies and the economy as a whole.
The Children’s Scholarship Fund New Hampshire, which administers the state’s Education Freedom Account program and its Business Education Tax Credit Scholarship Program, is adding staff in anticipation of the new federal voucher program set to begin Jan. 1.
The criminal case against Libertarian firebrand Jeremy Kauffman is no more, much like Kauffman’s affiliation with the National Libertarian Party.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed HB 155 into law this week, legislation that Democrats say paves the way for another corporate tax cut and downshifts $26 million a year to local property taxpayers. She signed 37 other bills and vetoed five more.
Under the terms of the agreement, the trail will be open to the public by 6 p.m. Friday and will remain open while the litigation between the State and Leonard Caron, who erected the barriers, remains ongoing.
State revenues ended the fiscal year in a strong position with a $182 million surplus although accounting adjustments are likely to change the numbers before they are finalized for the state’s annual comprehensive financial audit.
The Executive Council approved $20 million to go into the YDC abuse settlement fund, agreed to an extension to a contract for staffing at the Sununu Youth Services Center and rejected a $100 million conduit bond for a digital assets company, among other business Wednesday.
Attorney General John Formella’s investigation into operations at the Sununu Youth Services Center did not find child abuse as alleged but concluded systemic problems exist, a finding that raised concern by the Disability Rights Center-NH, one of the original agencies to complain.
“This casino owner must’ve thought he hit the jackpot when he got more than a quarter of a million dollars set aside to keep businesses afloat amid a pandemic battering our economy. But the odds and the FBI finally caught up with him when he misused that money for his own financial gain,” said Ted E. Docks, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Boston Division.
The federal government sued the state seeking a wide breadth of voter information including driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers as well as addresses and other personal information much of which is confidential under state law.
Geno Marconi says his right to a legal defense in the Rye Harbor Lobster Pound lawsuit is being thwarted by the Attorney General’s Office and Gov. Kelly Ayotte.