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Garry Rayno
For many, the most important was House Bill 142 which would have granted the Burgess BioPower plant in Berlin two more years to find a solution to an on-going problem almost since the day it opened.
Lawmakers will return to Concord Thursday to deal with some unfinished business from this year’s session, Gov. Chris Sununu’s nine vetoes of bills passed by the legislature.
The world is teetering on the edge of World War III as some nations try to pull the world’s superpowers into a conflict that millions of people will not survive.
Garry has been a longtime journalist in New Hampshire and Michael began his NH career as a journalist, specializing in business issues, and served in the early 90s as the State Senate Policy specialist on the budget and economic policy.
Several incidents occurred in the last month that either did not go before the ethics committee or were processed in a way to avoid the sunshine that is the public’s right-to-know.
While the controversial organization’s foot in the door was lamented by many after the vote, the on-line financial literacy course will not “cost” the state anything, which cannot be said about the biggest battleground in the education war, the Education Freedom Accounts program.
Casino gambling was one of the first proposals studied to increase funding for public education after the Claremont education lawsuit was decided by the state Supreme Court.
As everyone knows, the New Hampshire House is the third largest legislative body in the English speaking world, only behind the US House and the United Kingdom’s House of Commons.
One of the major changes the New Hampshire legislature made in recent years is to institute a provisional ballot for those registering to vote on election day without a photo ID.
But Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed the bill last week saying “New Hampshire ratepayers have been taken for over $200 million in order to subsidize the Burgess Biomass Plant in Berlin, NH. Enough is enough,” adding “The Power Purchase Agreement with Burgess Biopower is a great example of what can go wrong when the good intentions of a sympathetic government get exploited and abused by opportunists in the private sector.”