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In an end-run around the Executive Council’s controversial rejection of $27 million in federal funds for a state vaccine program, the Joint Fiscal Committee unanimously supported the acceptance of $4.68 million in more flexible funding on Friday.
Making it clear that it is encouraging all public bodies to provide opportunities for citizens to participate remotely, the committee making recommendations on virtual meetings is not asking the legislature to require public access.
Lucy K. Wyman drove from Lancaster Tuesday to tell Gov. Chris Sununu that some people think he’s talking out of both sides of his mouth when he says he is pro-choice yet signed a budget that includes new restrictions on abortions and was unsuccessful in convincing Executive Council Republicans to fund some family planning clinics.
Signers of the letter include the Disability Rights Center – N.H, NAMI New Hampshire (the National Alliance on Mental Illness), New Futures, N.H. Legal Assistance, the N.H. Medical Society, the N.H. Public Health Association, and other groups representing primary, healthy aging and disability care, substance use and mental health treatment, and other providers and patients across the Granite State.
Amidst an outpouring of anti-vax protesters, at the Executive Council meeting on Wednesday Gov. Chris Sununu quietly nominated two new circuit court justices and is requesting new terms and new faces for a number of key state commissions.
The Executive Council voted to table a contract request Wednesday to market and sell the former Laconia State School in Laconia.
Strong business tax returns and a rebounding hospitality industry provided a cushion for state revenues in September.
This allows eligible businesses to apply for reimbursement of a portion of their eligible expenses until 4 PM on Friday, October 8, 2021, via the GOFERR portal.
CONCORD — Describing the proposed Dalton landfill as the largest project that the state Department of Environmental Services has dealt with in the past 50 years, members of the bureaus reviewing the permit applications attempted through an online information session to shed light on the review process in the light of public complaints.