House Votes Postponed
Proposals to allow New Hampshire farmers to grow hemp and to establish a pharmaceutical buyback program are among the more the 30 bills that were scheduled for votes today, before the latest snowstorm...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Could Get a Whole Lot Bigger
Rep. Richard Barry (R-Merrimack) didn’t plan to stir up any controversy, or a “big to do” as he said, with his bill to alter the renewable energy portfolios law that passed with strong bipartisan...
View ArticleNHPTV and Rooms & Meals Go to Vote
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...
View ArticleTwo Takes on RGGI
A contentious debate is expected in Representative’s Hall Wednesday when the full House votes on a Republican-backed bill to repeal New Hampshire’s participation in the 10-state Regional Greenhouse Gas...
View ArticleBipartisan Deal to Save PACE
New changes to last year’s PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) law are being worked out to save the program from repeal. Sponsored by Rep. Beatriz Pastor (D-Lyme), PACE became law last year, but...
View ArticleProgress Report (Part 2)
Our midstream progress report on the N.H. Legislature continues today, checking up on the status of some featured legislation we’ve covered so far this session. For more background on each bill, click...
View ArticleNext Stops for Northern Pass
Opponents to the proposed Northern Pass transmission line are expected out in full force tomorrow for public hearings on two bills that could change — or derail — that project. The House Science,...
View Article250 Bills in Three Days
In three days next week, N.H. House members will decide the fate of more than 250 bills and amendments. To prepare for the flurry of activity, today we begin a series of dispatches looking at some of...
View ArticleThey Said It
They Said It this week features an attempted repeal of RGGI and a possible temporary cut in New Hampshire’s gas tax. What quotables have you read or heard that you think reveal the verbal tenor of the...
View ArticleThey 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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