Sununu Veto
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Alas, 29 years later, the utilities are more or less ignoring the statute and the PUC is letting them get away with it.
There seems to be a lot of misinformation out there, so let me tell you just what this budget does and does not do.
Have you been to Littleton lately?
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.
A longtime volunteer in the Concord community, Mary used her business acumen, her early feminist sensibility, and environmental concern to do good work.
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.
Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.
Wednesday’s public hearings before the Executive Council on both nominations are expected to be well-attended.
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.”
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy is facing seven negligent homicide charges in connection with Randolph’s crash on Friday.
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy (age 23) was arrested at his home located at 90 Newbridge Street, West Springfield, MA on Monday.
Attorney General released the names of the seven people who died in the Randolph crash at 3:08 p.m. Sunday.
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.
The identities of the deceased are still being confirmed and that information will not be released until next of kin have been notified.
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.