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New Hampshire 2024 Revenues Below 15-Year Trend

1 week ago | indepthnh.org | Garry Rayno

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.orgCONCORD — New Hampshire revenues in the fourth quarter of calendar 2024 were significantly below its 15-year trend, according to a report by The Pew Charitable Trusts’ states fiscal health project. New Hampshire state revenues were below the long-term trends by 5.8 percent after two years of diminishing revenues, the highest percentage of any New England state and the eighth highest decline in the country according to the report.
Distant Dome: NH Supreme Court Decision Takes Lawmakers Off the Hook

2 weeks ago | indepthnh.org | Garry Rayno

By GARRY RAYNO, Distant DomeThe New Hampshire Supreme Court’s decision finding the current administration of the Statewide Education Property Tax constitutional contradicts earlier decisions by the court on similar issues. What the court said Tuesday in its decision is if the state Department of Revenue Administration sets the same SWEPT rate for every community, that is enough to declare it constitutional. Get unbiased nonprofit watchdog news sent directly to your inbox.
Business Taxes Floundered in May

2 weeks ago | indepthnh.org | Garry Rayno

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.orgCONCORD — Senate budget writers may be optimistic about business taxes for the next biennium, but May revenues show a continued downward trend. However, despite business taxes’ poor showing, state revenues finished the next-to-last month in the 2025 fiscal year $5.4 million ahead of estimates at $141.1 million, which was below the prior year by $600,000. Get unbiased nonprofit watchdog news sent directly to your inbox.
NH Supreme Court Overturns Education Funding Decision

2 weeks ago | indepthnh.org | Garry Rayno |Nancy West

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.orgCONCORD — Christmas came early for more than 40 property-wealthy communities when the State Supreme Court Tuesday issued a 3-1 decision that the current Statewide Education Property Tax collection scheme is constitutional, overturning a lower court decision.
Right-to-Work Bill Passes NH House Committee by One Vote

2 weeks ago | plaindealerin.com | Garry Rayno

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Distant Dome: Willfully and Knowingly Making a Mess of Public Education

3 weeks ago | indepthnh.org | Garry Rayno

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.orgIf you watched the House session Thursday, you had to realize the message the Republican majority is sending on public education. Republicans quickly passed expanding Education Freedom Accounts, or vouchers, that will cost the state’s taxpayers well over $110 million for the next biennium with most of the money going to higher-income parents who currently send their children to religious and private schools or homeschools.
Parental rights bill about to become law

3 weeks ago | eagletribune.com | Garry Rayno

CONCORD, N.H. — Two identical parental rights bills are headed to the governor for her expected signature after votes in the House and Senate on Thursday. Republicans finally got the measure over the threshold after four years of trying to overcome Democratic opposition. kAmq@E9 3:==D[ :7 D:8?65 :?E@ =2H[ H:== C6BF:C6 >2?52E@CJ 5:D4=@DFC6 3J 65F42E@CD :?
Lawmakers OK new barriers to absentee voting

3 weeks ago | eagletribune.com | Garry Rayno

CONCORD, N.H. — The House made it more difficult to vote by absentee ballot passing several bills on Thursday that will require more information to vote in absentia. The House also failed to change the state’s primary election day from September to June, and decided cities and towns have to purge their voter checklists yearly instead of once in a decade. kAm%96 w@FD6 G@E65 E@ C6BF:C6 E92E A6@A=6 C68:DE6C:?8 7@C 2? 23D6?E66 32==@E AC6D6?E AC@@7 E96J 2C6 2 &?:E65 $E2E6D 4:E:K6?
House Votes New Requirements for Absentee Voting

3 weeks ago | indepthnh.org | Garry Rayno

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.orgCONCORD — The House made it more difficult to vote by absentee ballot passing several bills that will require more information to vote in absentia Thursday. The House also failed to change the state’s primary election day from September to June, and decided cities and towns have to purge their voter checklists yearly instead of once in a decade. Get unbiased nonprofit watchdog news sent directly to your inbox.
Education Freedom Accounts Expanded by House

3 weeks ago | indepthnh.org | Garry Rayno

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