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Garry Rayno
The biggest problem is that housing is unaffordable in New Hampshire and there are many reasons for that including from buying houses for investment by converting them into short-term rentals to the great migration from the cities to rural areas during the COVID pandemic.
You can expect partisan politics to play a larger role in the legislature during the second year of a two-year term.
Gov. Chris Sununu may have known something was coming when he announced last year he was not going to run for an unprecedented fifth term.
Lawmakers often do things today they know have future consequences with the attitude that will be another legislature’s challenge.
Friday with most lawmakers already at their destinations for the week-long vacation, it wasn’t exactly a news dump, but an ethics opinion dump with a couple of sticky issues.
The money for the EFA program comes from the Education Trust Fund, which was established about 25 years ago to pay the adequacy aid to school districts after the Claremont education decisions by the state Supreme Court.
I muse joyfully you’ll enjoy the game on Sunday and continue to pay attention to the way public education is being tackled in this state. No touchdowns, no good commercials, no great snacks. S
While Texas Gov. Greg Abbott may have a lot of support from Texans in his attempt to start a civil war over immigrants at his border with Mexico, he has yet to convince his Republican controlled Legislature of the value of an education voucher program.
The Democratic National Committee saw to it that the Democratic side of the ballot was in their words “meaningless” because no delegates were at stake as New Hampshire thumbed its nose at its attempt to change the running order making South Carolina the leadoff primary and New Hampshire second fiddle along with Nevada.
The state’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for fiscal year 2023 was released last week showing the state had continued its three-year run of good times since the COVID pandemic hit the state.