Posts by Paula Tracy
The Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee tabled a $46 million education grant on Friday, the third time it has voted on what would expand the number of charter schools in New Hampshire, but the issue isn’t going away soon.
Senate President Donna Soucy said: “We will work with the governor when we can, but he has yet to demonstrate his own bipartisanship following a year of record-breaking vetoes—most on bills that had bipartisan support…”
Just an oak ballot box that since 1892 has been collecting the paper ballots on election day with a hand crank. Yup, it’s still used today. Then the ballots are counted by hand.
So-called ‘Right to Work’ legislation went down in the state Senate Thursday, while they agreed to permit qualified patients and their caregivers the right to grow their own cannabis and gave seniors an automatic drop in Medicare premiums if they become available.
Using money the state received from its settlement with Volkswagen, Manchester will swap out about 14 diesel school buses and replace them with cleaner ones that use propane.
The governor was ‘sickened’ by the vote, which he said was democrats playing politics. Democrats reasoned that this grant would not help existing schools and only burden the future of the state’s education costs by creating new charter schools. Next steps are unclear.
The Executive Council approved DraftKings to be the single vendor of sports betting in New Hampshire at its busy pre-Thanksgiving meeting Monday.
NH Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut said the grant would give both public charter and traditional district schools a chance to try new ways to reach students most at risk.
Sanders said the political, economic and media establishments four years ago thought his ideas were “so radical” that they would never fly.
The marble halls were lined with supporters shouting “Pete! Pete!” as he made his way to the Secretary of State’s office where the national press waited to record the filing.