Posted on February 11, 2011 by Sunapee News
In what is shaping up to be the busiest period yet for lawmakers this session, the House will meet twice next week to vote on dozens of bills — on Tuesday after Gov. John Lynch’s budget address to the Legislature and on Wednesday for its regularly scheduled session.Two bills that we have reported on this [...]
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Posted on February 10, 2011 by Sunapee News
More than three years after the Legislature mandated public kindergarten in New Hampshire, the debate has returned with a House proposal that would repeal the law. via Back to Basics: Repealing Public Kindergarten | Front Door Politics.
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Posted on February 8, 2011 by Sunapee News
Republican leadership at the State House has made tax cutting and budget balancing top priorities and today, the House Ways and Means Committee will hold public hearings and may have executive session votes on nine tax-related bills. They include three measures we are watching that could lead to tens of millions in tax cuts on [...]
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Posted on February 7, 2011 by Sunapee News
For the third time since 2007, legislation has been filed to cut off all state funding for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, which runs six health centers in New Hampshire. The House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee will hold the first public hearing on House Bill 228 Tuesday. While no state or [...]
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Posted on February 1, 2011 by Sunapee News
A Constitutional showdown could be on the docket if New Hampshire lawmakers pass a bill set for a full House vote. The session has been cancelled tomorrow [February 2, 2011] due to snow, so the House will likely take up the bill next Wednesday. (Photo: N.H. Attorney General Michael Delaney refutes the Legislature’s authority to [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2011 by Sunapee News
A year after a similar measure failed, a House committee will likely vote Tuesday on a proposal to postpone scheduled changes to education funding for New Hampshire cities and towns. The funding formula was settled on by the Legislature in 2008. It is due to change beginning July 1. Sponsored by Rep. Kenneth Gould R-Derry, [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2011 by Sunapee News
More than 120 unsolved murders in New Hampshire stretch back over four decades. Now, a bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to make the state’s temporary investigative Cold Case Unit a permanent entity. via Cold Case Unit Could Become Permanent | Front Door Politics.
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Posted on January 21, 2011 by Sunapee News
Public employees and unions are keeping a close eye on big changes to the New Hampshire Retirement System that could be coming down the pike — and on a newly created House committee on pension reform. When the recession hit, the state’s public employee pension system was already battered from a decade of chronic underfunding. [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2011 by Sunapee News
Less than four years after a bipartisan measure in the Legislature met the New Hampshire Supreme Court’s order to define an “adequate education,” a Litchfield lawmaker has filed a bill to change that definition. Republican Rep. Ralph Boehm, vice chair of the House Education Committee, will present House Bill 39 for a public hearing in [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2011 by Sunapee News
Unused pharmaceuticals increasingly fuel addiction and environmental concerns, but two new bills could help keep New Hampshire’s excess medications off the streets and out of the water supply — while getting some of them to patients for whom costly pills are largely out of reach. Read more via the Daily Dispatch…
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Posted on January 12, 2011 by Sunapee News
Withdrawing state funding for public television and repealing the moratorium on school building aid are among the public hearings that were cancelled today due to the snow. via Snow Day: Public Hearings Rescheduled | Front Door Politics. PS: Front Door Politics posted an update on the Republican’s investigation of state Democratic Party leader Rep. Mike [...]
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Posted on January 11, 2011 by Sunapee News
The most bitter political fight of the new legislative session could end up to be not over taxes or budget cuts, but a constitutional provision enacted in 1792. How that provision is defined at hearings this week could determine the fate of a Democratic House member from Manchester who could be expelled from the Legislature [...]
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Posted on January 10, 2011 by Sunapee News
How cautious should lawmakers be when crafting the 2011-2013 biennium budget? Plenty cautious, according to one budget watcher who will give a briefing to a legislative committee today. The third and final full day of economic briefings for a joint House-Senate committee will include presentations from three experts on the state budget and economy. Charlie [...]
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Posted on January 7, 2011 by Sunapee News
Halfway Home? New Hampshire lawmakers will hear that the state is “halfway home” in economic recovery measurements at a briefing set for today at the State House. Check out the Daily Dispatch… Halfway Home? | Front Door Politics.
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Posted on January 4, 2011 by Sunapee News
Front Door Politics NH touches on “hemp and headwaters to judges and taxes,” in today’s Daily Dispatch: “Getting Organized for the New Year.” Michael McCord reports, “Shortly after the House and Senate go into session Wednesday morning, five House Committees will begin their work in the afternoon. At least, they’ll start getting organized for the [...]
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