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CONCORD — Any decision on reconsidering Northern Pass’s application to build a 192-mile transmission line will wait until May after the Site Evaluation Committee decided Monday to suspend its oral denial of the project.
Judge Charles Temple ruled Monday that $560 million Powerball winner “Jane Doe’s” hometown must be revealed, but her name is exempt from disclosure under the state’s right-to-know law.
This editorial and others highlighting the need for more government transparency will be posted at Right-to-Know NH during Sunshine Week.
Although town moderators may postpone deliberative sessions (in SB 2 towns) and the business meetings of the town (in towns that have adopted RSA 39:2-a) due to weather emergencies, the law does not authorize local or state officials to postpone the town elections.
OPINION: When the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee voted 7-0 to reject Northern Pass, the project’s spokesperson expressed “shock and outrage.” As a senior at Yale who is coming of age in a time when corporate power feels insurmountable, I felt shock and hope.
As Sunshine Week dawns to shed light on the darkness shrouding the inner workings of government at all levels, the forecast is a little murky in the State House this week.
Rather, because Sunshine Week is a celebration of the virtues of government transparency, this is a great time to consider the extent to which secrecy is impeding the development of great energy policy… Plus, I am convinced that ratepayers get better outcomes at the PUC the more sunshine there is.
Authorities are investigating an incident in which an unattended box truck carrying explosive fireworks was found at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods at 10 a.m. on Saturday, according to a state police news release.
In the vein of doing their job, Paul Miller said the Keene Sentinel’s standard is one of an “apolitical, independent, and verified press.” “The press is a proxy for the public,” Miller continued, and with that in mind, he says, his newspaper only uses sources the editors consider to be competent and credible.