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From cutting Medicaid rates by 3 percent to eliminating funds for family planning clinics, to suspending the farmers market program for poor women, infants and children the House Finance Committee voted to recommend a state budget for Health and Human Services Tuesday, reducing $290 million from the next two years of general fund distributions.
A measure that would prohibit language related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in all state contracts going forward passed without public hearing by House Republicans in the Finance Committee who pushed for reconsideration of a vote to defeat it after a Democrat left the meeting at the end of a long day.
It appears that cell phone use in schools is about to be limited or entirely curtailed in New Hampshire classrooms.
A new study by the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute finds business tax rate reductions have cost the state between $795 million and $1.17 billion in forgone revenue since 2015 without the often promised bump in revenue due to increased economic activity.
Help us remember the fearless, longtime Concord Monitor columnist Katy Burns and support local journalism, which is needed now more than ever.
One can only read so many books and magazines. An angler can only play with their rods, reels and fly boxes so many times. I was going stir crazy.
Cuts to spending that could lead to layoffs July 1 and include the elimination of all tourism promotion funding by the state as well as money for the Arts Council were explained to the entire House Finance Committee during a meeting Monday.
At this time last year, Chatila’s Bakery employed 15 individuals at its wholesale facility to manage order fulfillment, but due to the economic challenges including those posed by tariffs, the bakery has reduced its workforce to just two employees.
With multiple polls showing housing as the top issue in New Hampshire by a wide margin, it’s no shock that the current legislative session is awash with proposals ostensibly aimed at addressing the state’s housing crisis.