2020 Presidential Primary Candidate Survey on Disability
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See how your candidate answered the questions – or didn’t.
Carbon Sequestration, Sobriety Check Refusal Punishment Now Part of Parental Rights Bill
A measure to impose a moratorium on creating any new carbon sequestration forest farms in the state and the formation of a study committee on the impacts to the municipal timber tax revenue is more likely to pass into law after Littleton Republican Sen. David Rochefort got his colleagues to include it in a non-related parental rights bill.
House Votes New Requirements for Absentee Voting
The House made it more difficult to vote by absentee ballot passing several bills that will require more information to vote in absentia Thursday.
Education Freedom Accounts Expanded by House
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.
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NH Senate Passes $15.7 Billion Budget Without Support from Democrats
Identical Parental Rights Bills on Way to Governor for Her Expected Signature
Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Hope Makris, Matriarch of the NASWA Resort Family
The Trophy Stretch Up North
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We weren’t there two minutes before we both got into a couple of nice Rainbow Trout.
Sununu Faces Double-Edged Sword of NH Budget Vetoes
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The tried and true axiom of tax and spend Democrats does not hold the sway it once did when many people in the state are crying for property tax relief including businesses.
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.