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The House made it more difficult to vote by absentee ballot passing several bills that will require more information to vote in absentia Thursday.
The House once again voted to expand the Education Freedom Account program, opening it to any New Hampshire child regardless of his or her parents’ income.
Refusing to bend to any of the amendments brought by Democrats, the Republican-controlled Senate passed a $15.7 billion budget Thursday which is bound to head to negotiations with the House of Representatives.
Two identical parental rights bills are headed to the governor for her expected signature after votes in the House and Senate Thursday.
The Moms Demand Action meeting will not be open to the press, but former Mass. Governor Deval Patrick will hold a press availability after the meeting’s conclusion.
Next week is the beginning. Much more lies ahead. Stay tuned to Garry Rayno’s Distant Dome and InDepthNH.org State House coverage daily.
“My friends in California are working on robot trucks that can drive themselves. They tell me that they’re 98 percent of the way there,” Andrew Yang said.
I feel like this man at least thirty times a day.
The failure of some facilities, including the Sununu Youth Services Center, to end the use of prone restraint and reduce the use of all restraint has significant long-term consequences for our children.
“Rather than embracing the successful policies of Republican leadership, Democrats seem content to repeatedly try to undermine New Hampshire’s economic progress by mandating a 100% wage hike for some,” said House Republican Leader Dick Hinch.
By comparison, New Hampshire public schools reported 5,245 restraint incidents and 3,429 seclusion incidents from school years 2015 to 2018.
Eversource wants to increase its annual revenues in New Hampshire by almost $70 million. That amounts to a rate hike of nearly 20 percent.
Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.
Rep. Ann Kuster, D-NH: “This afternoon, we were briefed by administration officials on the classified intelligence that prompted President Trump to order the Baghdad attack that killed General Soleimani. What I heard raises more questions than answers.”
The Executive Council will vote to approve or reject Shibinette at its regular meeting on Jan. 22.
The “Red Flag” bill’s prime sponsor Rep. Debra Altschiller, D-Stratham, said since the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee first held a public hearing on the bill last spring, the state’s suicide and homicide rates have grown.
The Senate worked through 74 bills on the regular and consent calendar at breakneck speed sending many to interim study or outright killing them as inexpedient to legislate, finishing their work shortly after 1 p.m.
So, as the New Year lurches forward and you start following through on your resolutions, be open to letting life happen. Be open to bringing your fly rod everywhere you go and let fly fishing happen!
They would expand access to net metering, open new opportunities for clean energy development, and allow towns to better control their electric bills, Gov. Sununu said.
Kayden Rodger was born at 9:23 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2020.
More than 16,200 players have registered accounts to place sports bets in New Hampshire as of Monday, January 6.
Nancy Martin of Warner, a member of the Friends of the Mink Hills said it would level the playing field and allow for more transparency.
In 2018, Thompson defeated an incumbent Republican in a GOP-leaning district to win his first term in the New Hampshire House.