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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 delayed crossover deadline. Scheduled to meet from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at ...

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 by Rep. Dick Ames, a Democrat from Jaffrey who served on the commission, would significantly increa...

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 living; many are now flattened by the headwind of the COVID-19 pandemic. As of July 2020, half of New...

Lawmaker's 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,” Major said. “But that’s what the rule is now.” “Mary” is 94-year old Republican Rep. ...