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Businesses would get a tax credit for money spent on advertising in New Hampshire-based media outlets under a bill being drafted for the state Legislature to consider next year.
Despite objections from civil libertarians, educators and librarians, the N.H. Senate has passed a Republican-backed bill aimed at prohibiting “obscene or harmful sexual material” from being disseminated at public schools.
After voters slashed the Jaffrey-Rindge school board’s budget at the polls last week, the board approved $3 million in spending cuts Monday for next school year, eliminating about two dozen jobs, cutting competitive sports and reducing the pre-kindergarten program.
The Attorney General’s Office was non-committal this past Tuesday in response to questions on whether it is investigating potential violations of the statute or whether it has ever done so.
Several bills pending in the NH Legislature this session would expand a state program that uses millions of taxpayer dollars to subsidize private education expenses for about 4,500 students across the state.
Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington, a Concord Democrat and gubernatorial candidate whose district takes in much of the Monadnock Region, has supported such requests. But the other four councilors, all Republicans, have rejected them because these organizations also provide abortions.
State Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut, who finished a close second to Chris Sununu in the 2016 Republican primary for governor, says he’s not interested in running in next year’s gubernatorial election.
The number of state senators in favor of legalizing marijuana for recreational use may have grown enough to flip the script from the last time the Senate considered such a measure.
A bipartisan marijuana legalization bill would yield millions of dollars in state revenue and satisfy a strong public desire to end the prohibition on recreational use, supporters of the legislation said Wednesday.
Adults would be permitted to possess up to four ounces of marijuana, and state-licensed stores would be allowed to sell the drug under a proposal backed by Republican and Democratic leaders in the NH House.