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This Week’s Senate Votes
This week’s Senate votes include amending the N.H. Constitution regarding education funding, plus voter identification and payday loans. With the deadline to “Crossover Day” on March 31 fast...
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The Price of Taxing Tobacco
Can reducing New Hampshire’s tobacco tax actually increase state revenues from tobacco taxes? Assuming a big increase in sales due to the lower tax rate, that’s the idea behind a bill that’s getting...
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Senate Budget Hearings Today
Later today, the Senate Finance committee will hear public testimony for the first time on the overall $10.3 billion biennium budget passed by the House last month. Expect a long list of speakers to...
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Speaking of gas prices …
What would you do with a few extra nickels? If it seems like politicians want to cut the gasoline tax every time fuel prices begin to skyrocket, as we’ve seen during the past month, well you’re right....
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Collective Bargaining Disagreement
Remember the recent uproar over public employee unions in New Hampshire? The one about eliminating collective bargaining obligations when labor contracts end? It was slipped into the House budget...
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Tax Cut Vertigo
A temporary five-cent gas tax cut passed the House yesterday. Is it political posturing or an altruistic measure for cash-strapped New Hampshire consumers? 3 sides of the nickel Gov. John Lynch...
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House to vote on fighting federal health care reform
Ready for an old-fashioned Constitutional showdown? We’re tracking an effort by New Hampshire lawmakers to get the Attorney General to join other states in challenging the constitutionality of last...
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Return to Sender
The N.H. House reached a veto-proof majority when it voted 261-104 to approve its own version of a Senate proposal to fight federal health care reform. But will the Senate concur? Sen. Tom De Blois...
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They Said It!
There was plenty to say this week about RGGI, federal health care reform, private prisons, and payday loans. Nanny rates On Wednesday, the House defeated a bill to re-allow a variation of so-called...
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NHPTV Vote This Week
When it meets in full session Wednesday, the Senate will decide whether to join the House in prohibiting state funding of New Hampshire Public Television. House Bill 113, which passed the House 263-102...
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