Sununu Veto
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Fly Fishing the Kancamagus
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One of my fly fishing challenges every year is to fish waters that are new to me. This is never a problem in a state like New Hampshire because there is so much water to fish.
Roger Wood’s Podcast: NH Childcare Centers Finally Get Promised Checks
It took a year, but childcare centers in New Hampshire qualifying for state funds have finally received them. The legislature appropriated $15 million for hiring and retention help for childcare workers.
Fiscal Approves $6M Grant for Community Health Centers; Extends Rye Harbor Grant Date
The Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee approved the request for one-time support for eight Federally Qualified Health Centers and one similar center to address the continuing impact from the COVID pandemic.
Fiscal OKs Changes to YDC Settlement Program; Chairman Suggests Lie Detectors
Legislative budget writers Friday approved changes to the Youth Development Center Settlement Fund program to align with legislation passed this year to make it more attractive to victims of sexual and physical abuse from about 1990 to 2000 at the Manchester facility.
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Henry Walters – Falconer and Poet
Notable New Hampshire Deaths: 20-Year Executive Councilor Ruth Griffin
Judge Denies Ex-Sen. Woodburn’s Latest Motion To Avoid Jail Time
Business & Economy
Sununu Vetoes Compromise Budget
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Citing the familiar red flags of tax increases and a structural deficit, Gov. Chris Sununu as expected vetoed the two-year operating budget Friday the House and Senate passed the day before.
Education
OPINION: Learn Everywhere is latest step in redesigning NH education
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Learn Everywhere has great promise, but I’ve been disappointed by the rancorous debate around a concept that is, largely, the essence of the award-winning reforms made by the State Board and New Hampshire Department of Education (NHDOE) in 2005.
Business & Economy
Controversial Bills Await Governor’s Decision
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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.
Business & Economy
Partisan Debate Leads to $13.3B Budget and Backup Plan for Likely Veto
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Lawmakers without dissent also approved a three-month continuing resolution to allow state agencies to continue operating at approved spending levels if the budget is vetoed.
Business & Economy
The dog ate my homework: How utilities avoid least-cost planning
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Alas, 29 years later, the utilities are more or less ignoring the statute and the PUC is letting them get away with it.
Feature
OPINION: What’s Really In and Out of the Compromise Budget
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There seems to be a lot of misinformation out there, so let me tell you just what this budget does and does not do.
News
POINTS NORTH: New tavern in an old inn, The Beatles, Fourth of July and More….
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Have you been to Littleton lately?
Courts & Corrections
AG MacDonald Grilled, Praised in Quest To Become Chief Justice
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The Council also held a much shorter and less contentious hearing on Sununu’s nomination of Public Utilities Commission Chair Martin Honigberg to be a Superior Court judge.
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Mary Rand Tracy Loved Wildflowers and Swimming in the Cold Ocean
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A longtime volunteer in the Concord community, Mary used her business acumen, her early feminist sensibility, and environmental concern to do good work.
Courts & Corrections
Mass. RMV Head Resigns Over Failures Before 7 Crash Deaths in Randolph, NH
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The RMV had not acted on information provided by the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles about a May 11 incident that should have triggered termination of this individual’s commercial driver’s license.
Courts & Corrections
Chief Justice?
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Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.
Business & Economy
Crowds, Questions Expected at Honigberg, MacDonald Nomination Hearings
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Wednesday’s public hearings before the Executive Council on both nominations are expected to be well-attended.
Business & Economy
Preparing For Sununu’s Veto Ax To Fall on Compromise Budget
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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.”
Courts & Corrections
Truck Driver Facing Charges in 7 Randolph Crash Deaths To Be Arraigned Tuesday
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Volodymyr Zhukovskyy is facing seven negligent homicide charges in connection with Randolph’s crash on Friday.
Courts & Corrections
Truck Driver Charged With 7 Deaths in Randolph Crash
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Volodymyr Zhukovskyy (age 23) was arrested at his home located at 90 Newbridge Street, West Springfield, MA on Monday.
Courts & Corrections
4 Randolph Crash Victims from NH, two from Mass., 1 from RI
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Attorney General released the names of the seven people who died in the Randolph crash at 3:08 p.m. Sunday.
Business & Economy
Dems Give Up Capital Gains and Family Leave, But Sununu Veto Still Looms
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However, the state is not in a fiscal crisis and has had a revenue surplus for the last five or six years and much of that money has been used to reduce business taxes and build up the state’s rainy day fund.
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7 Die, 3 Hurt When Truck, Several Motorcycles Collide in Randolph
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The identities of the deceased are still being confirmed and that information will not be released until next of kin have been notified.
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AG Identifies 3 Belmont Police Who Discharged Firearms in Fatal Shooting
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A report regarding whether the use of force was justified will be released once the investigation is completed. No further updates are expected until the report is released.