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The peak that is home to some of the world’s worst weather is also home to a rare butterfly, recently rediscovered and now being studied by biologists who are hoping to find out what it eats and how it lives in such an extreme climate.
The House and Senate finished their legislation session Thursday acting on 31 bills – including one suspending the work requirement for the Medicaid expansion program and another raising the minimum wage to $12 an hour over the next two years.
While Democratic leaders and lawmakers believe they have met the governor more than halfway, Sununu said Tuesday the legislature is knowingly sending him a budget “that I cannot support.”
Cranmore Mountain Resort in North Conway had the longest season in its 81-year history.
In every small cafe, bistro and coffee shop here in the shadow of Rattlesnake Ridge there is growing buzz about the “Green New Deal.”
Six biomass plants in New Hampshire got a big lift when the Senate passed a measure proponents say will save jobs, and $245 million in economic activity.
In the distant past, everyone believed every home would have its own little nuclear plant to provide the electricity needed to be self-sufficient and charge cars that flew.
The bickering largely has been between the two parties in the House and Senate, but this time of year the bickering begins to shift to between the House and Senate as the jockeying begins to ensure their priorities are preserved somewhere before the conference committees begin to reconcile different versions of bills.
BIA President Jim Roche said: “We thank Governor Sununu for his veto of Senate Bill 1.”