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Rita Mattson of Dublin, with support from key Republican party figures, spent Saturday knocking on doors in Jaffrey, asking for support in the upcoming special election to be the next State Representative for District 9.The election, scheduled for...

Longtime state representative and Franklin Pierce University history professor Douglas Ley died at home on Thursday, family members announced Friday.Ley’s son, Ethan, announced his father’s passing Friday on CaringBridge, a crowd-funding site aimed at...

Longtime state representative and Franklin Pierce University history professor Douglas Ley died at home on Thursday, family members announced Friday.Ley’s son, Ethan, posted on CaringBridge, a crowd-funding site aimed at paying medical expenses, on...

NH Business Review American Rescue Plan provision bars states from using funds to reduce revenues April 20, 2021 As if the tensions between Governor Sununu, the New Hampshire House and Senate were not enough to potentially gum up the state budget process, a controversial provision of the American Rescue Plan Act poses another challenge for lawmakers in Concord. Section 9901 of the act prohibits states from applying the funds it distributes to “either directly or indirectly offset a reduction ...

Tax prohibition amendments don’t pass House By Garry Rayno - InDepthNH | Apr 11, 2021 House members enjoy some food at Fridays session at the NH SportsPlex in Bedford. (PAULA TRACY photo) BEDFORD — House Republicans failed Friday to muster the votes needed to advance two proposed constitutional amendments prohibiting broad-based taxes. The House did approve a bill to expand the base of the rooms and meals tax to include internet transactions for rental cars and rooms. The proposed constitut...

Rayno: Heated battles expected this week in New Hampshire House Gary Rayno “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” is the opening line of Charles Dickens’ classic novel “A Tale of Two Cities.” Although it was written about the French Revolution, it could have been written about three days in April for the New Hampshire House. Another description may be “three days in hell” as the nearly 400-member House works its way through 331 bills in order to meet its already de...

New Hampshire school-funding bill gets a closer look before House panel Ways and Means Committee to consider boosting property tax relief March 2, 2021 The House Ways and Means Committee will be holding a work session on Wednesday to look at a bill that’s an ougtrowth of the Commission to Study School Funding’s recommendations, which sought to craft a plan to provide more equitable opportunity for schoolchildren while more equitable treatment of property taxpayers. House Bill 504, sponsored...

Instead of a solution to the decades long structural failure to fund our public schools, State Reps. David Luneau, Dick Ames, and Marjorie Porter propose a cruel band-aid. Here’s how their House Bill 504 works: Those citizens struggling to pay the...

Our Turn: Property tax relief means stronger families and a stronger economy Published: 2/14/2021 6:00:08 AM Families across New Hampshire are well acquainted with two truths. First, property taxes are excruciatingly high – and often highest for the least well-off. Second, school funding is inequitable – and, for many towns, insufficient. Since the early 2000s, our low- and moderate-income neighbors have struggled to make ends meet in the crosswinds of wage stagnation and rising cost of li...

Lawmakers vulgar insult highlights tensions of remote N.H. State House Technical changes brought on by the pandemic have added new tensions to the business of the N.H. Legislature. Courtesy Published: 2/11/2021 4:56:12 PM There was full remote attendance during the most recent meeting of the New Hampshire House Ways and Means Committee. But one lawmaker, Committee Chairman Norm Major explained, would not be allowed to vote during the hearing. “Mary, you are as important to us as anyone else,...