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Bill Would Hold The New Education Choice Program To Its Budget
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CONCORD — The Education Freedom Account program would be forced to live within its budget this fiscal year and next under a bill heard Wednesday.
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CONCORD — The Education Freedom Account program would be forced to live within its budget this fiscal year and next under a bill heard Wednesday.
With the number of new COVID-19 cases doubling in a week to about 2,500 a day across the state, Gov. Chris Sununu announced that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is now the dominant strain and said hospitalizations will likely continue to be very high for the next two months.
The Executive Council has rejected another effort to provide $1 million in funding for non-abortion reproductive health-care services for low-income residents at facilities in Concord, Greenland, Claremont, Manchester, Keene, Derry, and Exeter.
State auditors say the state has a much larger rainy day fund than budget writers anticipated when they wrote the state’s biennial budget last spring.
Gov. Chris Sununu announced Tuesday that people can call in to the Executive Council meeting Wednesday, but didn’t say why or if it will continue at their meetings in the future.
After 20 years as deputy to retiring Bill Gardner, David Scanlan, 65, of Bow took over as Secretary of State on Monday.
State Rep. Chuck Grassie, D-Rochester, said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is certain he contracted it during the House sessions last week at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Manchester.
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan, D-NH, questioned top administration officials Tuesday, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, on New Hampshire’s inaccurate vaccination data, the need for additional personnel and support from the Federal Emergency Management Agency in New Hampshire, and how the administration is monitoring the effectiveness of COVID-19 treatments against the new variant.
People told Senators Monday to go back to the drawing board and construct fair and transparent redistricting maps not driven by party politics.