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State revenues continued to track higher than projections for January led by business, rooms and meals, and real estate taxes and lottery earnings.
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State revenues continued to track higher than projections for January led by business, rooms and meals, and real estate taxes and lottery earnings.
Customers can visit their local NH Liquor & Wine Outlet and purchase COVID-19 test kits for $11.29, while supplies last.
Senators offered to allow health-care insurers to incentivize getting the COVID-19 shots, similar to premium breaks for getting the flu shot, but state Sen. Bob Giuda, R-Warren, claimed that the science to support vaccinations is just not there, calling the bill “irresponsible.”
CONCORD – On Thursday, Senate Republicans voted to repeal the state’s new law mandating ultrasounds for abortion but preserved the remaining provisions of a new state law that bans abortion after 24 weeks gestation without exceptions for rape, incest, or fatal fetal diagnoses.
Comments critical of BIPOC activists who publicly called out Rep. Nicole Klein-Knight, D-Manchester, for repeatedly using the “N” word and calling security in speaking with a young Black activist at the State House last month have heated up an already uneasy controversy.
A forensic audit of the 2020 election needs to be done to restore faith in the state’s election system, a House committee was told multiple times Wednesday.
CONCORD – Education Freedom Accounts and mandatory masking and vaccinations at public colleges and universities were the subject of multiple bills heard during a day-long House Education Committee meeting on Wednesday.
David Watters, D-Dover, appeared before the Senate Ways and Means Committee to discuss his bill, which would establish a solid waste fund supported by a waste disposal surcharge.
One might expect that a bill to eliminate a new state voucher program that just launched in the fall would meet with opposition, but a separate bill, seeking to ensure that the Education Freedom Accounts go only to families in need of financial help also met with strong opposition during a hearing before the Senate Education Committee on Tuesday.