50 Yard Line Seats, for the Homeless?
If you don’t like the thought of taxpayer money financing sports stadiums, you’ll like this story out of Florida. An obscure law passed 23-years ago says that professional sports facilities built with...
View ArticleA Federal vs State Health Insurance Exchange-Does It Matter?
As part of the Affordable Care Act, every state must have a health insurance exchange in place by January 2014. An exchange is a clearinghouse of sorts where people and small business can go to buy...
View ArticleHouse Votes Against State Run Health Insurance Exchange
A bill which prevents the state from creating its own exchange passed overwhelmingly in the house on Thursday» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View ArticleSpecialty Hospitals Pass House
In a 198 to 161 vote, house members passed a bill that would allow for-profit specialty hospitals to avoid going through the certificate of need regulatory process. The bill also exempts these...
View ArticleHouse Folds on Gaming Bill
Gambling in New Hampshire ran up against a stacked deck in the Statehouse today. The House has voted to kill a bill that would have brought four casinos and 14,000 video slot machines to the state. The...
View ArticleHouse Committee Votes Against Sex Offender Board
After sailing through the Senate, a bill that would have created a ‘Sexual Offender Management Board’ hit a wall in the House today.The bill calls for the creation of a 19-member board that would...
View ArticleSenate Begins Battle Over Abortion Funding
Thursday, members of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee considered a bill that would ban public funding of facilities that provide abortion. Opponents of the bill, which has already been...
View ArticleNH Welfare System Under Scrutiny
Proposed legislation would create a new verification system in order to avoid fraud. Another bill would reduce the amount of time someone could receive assistance. But advocates for the poor say the...
View ArticleEd Funding Amendment Faces Big Test In House
Enacting any constitutional amendment is tough. It requires a three-fifths vote by both House and Senate, and two-thirds support from voters at the polls. Add to this the fact this amendment deals...
View ArticleEducation Amendment Saga Nears Conclusion?
Since the Claremont decision of the mid 90s, New Hampshire has debated the locus of authority and responsibility in funding our K-12 public schools. Over 80 proposed amendments have seen their way to a...
View ArticleEducation Funding Amendment Fails
This year’s effort to pass a school funding constitutional amendment failed where such efforts tend to fail – the New Hampshire house. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View ArticleVeto Day Arrives at Statehouse
With 15 vetoes, the most ever by a Governor in a single session, John Lynch hasn’t been shy about wielding his power. Now, Republicans will work to override some of those measures when they gather in...
View ArticlePhoto Identification of Voters Becomes Law
The Legislature has overridden Governor Lynch’s veto of a voter ID law. The bill allows a variety of forms this fall—including student IDs. Starting next year, only government issued identifications,...
View ArticleGoing Thru…Question Two
A proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot this November would give the legislature final say over judicial rules and procedures. That has some in the legal community incensed over what they...
View ArticleA.G. Fraud Unit Proposal Stalls Again
The creation of a new fraud unit at the state Attorney General’s office has stalled again. Thursday, the Legislative Fiscal Committee voted to table a request to approve funding for it. The governor...
View ArticleA Federal vs State Health Insurance Exchange-Does It Matter?
As part of the Affordable Care Act, every state must have a health insurance exchange in place by January 2014. An exchange is a clearinghouse of sorts where people and small business can go to buy...
View ArticleHouse Votes Against State Run Health Insurance Exchange
A bill which prevents the state from creating its own exchange passed overwhelmingly in the house on Thursday» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
View ArticleSpecialty Hospitals Pass House
In a 198 to 161 vote, house members passed a bill that would allow for-profit specialty hospitals to avoid going through the certificate of need regulatory process. The bill also exempts these...
View ArticleHouse Folds on Gaming Bill
Gambling in New Hampshire ran up against a stacked deck in the Statehouse today. The House has voted to kill a bill that would have brought four casinos and 14,000 video slot machines to the state. The...
View ArticleHouse Committee Votes Against Sex Offender Board
After sailing through the Senate, a bill that would have created a ‘Sexual Offender Management Board’ hit a wall in the House today.The bill calls for the creation of a 19-member board that would...
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