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Garry Rayno
Monday marks the two-year anniversary of Eversource’s decision to give up on its plan to construct a $1.6 billion, high voltage, 192-mile transmission line traversing New Hampshire from north to south.
Whichever way you look at it, this biennium’s budget is about $210 million more than the last biennium or about a 1.6 precent increase no matter what the press releases said after the House and Senate passed last month — down nearly party lines — and went home until the fall.
The Great Recession impacted men more than women and more women were employed in private industry than men from 2007 until 2015, but since that time more men are working than women.
There are any number of controversial provisions including the divisive concepts section that is not quite the prohibition on teaching controversial racial or sexual concepts as the original but certainly would prohibit critical race theory in public schools and universities.
Republican House and Senate budget writers agreed to a budget last week that would be substantially higher than the current biennium budget and includes more controversial sections than usual.
COVID-19 has meant virtual or hybrid committee meetings, virtual sessions for the Senate, and in-person sessions held on athletic fields and parking lots in Durham and a sportsplex in Bedford for the House.
We are proud to announce four of our writers recently won awards from the New England Newspaper and Press Association.
The Senate budget sends an entirely different message to the governor: “We got your back.”
The 2021 legislative session in its final stages and about to enter the “Let’s make a deal” segment.
Change often goes unnoticed if it is done in quiet little steps.