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NH Budget: Will Cool Heads Prevail or Finger-Pointing Begin?
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These are not normal political times so Sununu may well veto the budget.
Distant Dome: Willfully and Knowingly Making a Mess of Public Education
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If you watched the House session Thursday, you had to realize the message the Republican majority is sending on public education.
Related: Distant Dome: This Is How Democracy Dies
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.
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Education Freedom Accounts Expanded by House
NH Senate Passes $15.7 Billion Budget Without Support from Democrats
Identical Parental Rights Bills on Way to Governor for Her Expected Signature
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Radical Centrist Podcast: Theo Dunfey Circles Forward to Constructive Change
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Now heading into their 45th anniversary year, with a title that reflects their expanding reach and global ambitions, New England Circle has become “Global Citizens Circle.”
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Happy June 1 from Columnist of the Year II
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I earned a second-place award for Columnist of the Year, I shall now put the letters, C.O.Y II after my name.
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Conway Daily Sun Wins 1st Place for Excellence In NH Daily Newspaper Category
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New Hampshire Business Review took first place for General Excellence for non-daily newspapers and InDepthNH.org was named first place for General Excellence in the digital category.
Business & Economy
Senate Committee Approves Budget, Hopes To Avoid Veto
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The Senate plan was done in consultation with Gov. Sununu’s office.
Courts & Corrections
IHoP-NH: Arnie Alpert Helped Make Death Penalty ‘History’
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We call Paula Tracy’s video column In the Hallways of Power-NH, IHoP-NH.
Courts & Corrections
Legalizing Pot Bill Dead This Session, But Will Be Back
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Sen. Martha Hennessey, D-Hanover, recommended House Bill 481 be re-referred to committee so no action will occur until at least December or next year.
Business & Economy
POINTS NORTH: Crumb Bar, Borderlands Biking, This Mountain Life, and More….
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Back in 2017, the Northern Forest Center began working with small mountain biking groups in northern New Hampshire, northern Vermont, Maine and Quebec to promote trail riding.
Business & Economy
Senate Passes Controversial Voting Bills, Capital Budget and ‘Berlin Bill’
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Sen. Regina Birdsell, R-Hampstead, said Democrats are creating confusion in the voting system by repealing a law that was passed less than two years ago and has yet to fully go into effect.
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Death Penalty Repealed in NH, Senate Overrides Sununu’s Veto 16 to 8
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By the necessary two-thirds majority, the state Senate overrode Gov. Chris Sununu’s veto of the death penalty repeal bill by a vote of 16-8.
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InDepthNH.org’s Nancy West, Garry Rayno, Susan Dromey Heeter Win Press Awards
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UPDATED. The state’s only nonprofit online news outlet – InDepthNH.org – took home seven awards in its category and its founder was honored for Lifetime Achievement at the New Hampshire Press Association’s Distinguished Journalism banquet Wednesday night.
Education
Senate Committee At Odds Over Education Funding Plan
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The reductions have thrown a number of school districts such as Berlin, Pittsfield, Claremont, Newport and Stratford into crisis sending property taxes in the property poor communities even higher.
Senate Committee Backs 25-Bed Facility To Replace Secure Psychiatric Unit
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The House Finance Committee declined to include the new facility in its proposed budget saying it would be irresponsible to include the project without additional information from the governor’s office.
Courts & Corrections
AG: ‘Undetermined’ Deaths for Pair Found in Manchester’s Quality Inn After Shootout
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It is not possible to assign a single manner of death for each decedent as they resulted from a combination of incidental, self-imposed, and inflicted conditions.
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‘That Churchill Woman’ is Masterfully Written
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Winston Churchill is the pawn who becomes the king and keeps his mother’s secrets.
Business & Economy
Battle Over Ed. Trust Fund, Psych Unit Likely Crafting Budget Sununu Won’t Veto
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Senate Finance eliminated capital gains tax plan that would have affected only top 1 percent of state earners.
News
Pete Buttigieg’s Vibe: Hopeful, Vibrant, I Did My Homework Early
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Pete did not mention the name of the current leader of the free world, provided only subtle digs at Republicans and offered nourishment to a very thirsty crowd.
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Who’s Running For President This Week In Your NH Town
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Don’t forget to read Decoding the Vibe where Susan Drumey Heeter tells it like it really is as the first-in-the-nation primary parade of candidates comes to town. Join her behind the scenes where you might just find out what the candidate is really like. She’s in Exeter with Mayor Pete Buttigieg Friday.
Energy
As Rate Case Looms, Eversource Drops Two Glitter Bombs
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Eversource plans to make its big rate case filing next week at the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), so the company spent this past week dropping two big and distracting glitter bombs.