
Kevin Landrigan
State House Bureau Chief and Senior Reporter at New Hampshire Union Leader
Kevin Landrigan-NH Press Assn. Lifetime Achievement Award/N.E. Press winning reporter/columnist, covered NH prez primary 1980-2024, UL State House Bureau Chief
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2 days ago |
unionleader.com | Kevin Landrigan
It took four hours of debate over 20 amendments, but a $15.4 billion two-year state budget proposal easily cleared the state Senate Thursday. Senate Finance Committee Chairman James Gray, R-Rochester, said his committee's proudest achievement is the reversal of more than $160 million in unpopular cuts made by the House of Representatives to Medicaid providers and those relying on community mental health and developmental disability services.
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2 days ago |
unionleader.com | Kevin Landrigan
On a busy final day of regular legislative business, the New Hampshire House of Representatives and state Senate acted on some major bills including a permanent expansion of Education Freedom Accounts (EFA) along with a bell-to-bell ban on cellphone use in New Hampshire public schools.
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2 days ago |
unionleader.com | Kevin Landrigan
A push to give parents affirmative rights to information about their children -- a legislative priority for Gov. Kelly Ayotte -- cleared both House and Senate Thursday in two identical bills. In a key concession, however, Republican leaders in both chambers agreed to remove a section requiring that parents give consent for all health care services provided to their children.
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3 days ago |
yahoo.com | Kevin Landrigan
Since 2001, student enrollments drop while spending shot upThis graphic from the latest Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy-requested report analyzes how student enrollment in public schools fell by 21% since 2001 to 2024 while spending went up 45%. A new study from a conservative free market think tank concludes that the hundreds of millions in federal COVID-19 grants for school districts failed to improve test scores in New Hampshire.
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3 days ago |
yahoo.com | Kevin Landrigan
A Harvard University Kennedy School of Government teacher and Hampton school board member has launched her Democratic primary candidacy for the to-be-vacant 1st Congressional District seat. Carleigh Beriont, 36, said she’s offering her candidacy as an alternative to a pair of establishment Democrats already in the race — Stefany Shaheen, the eldest daughter of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and state Party Vice Chairman Maura Sullivan of Portsmouth.
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N.H. Senate Commerce Committee deadlocks, 3-3, on bill to repeal annual car/truck inspections. @daninnis will offer on the Senate floor his plan to go to every other year and only safety tests, getting rid of emission checks. #nhpolitics

No final decision but N.H. Senate budget writers poised to agree with House and cap revenue sharing aid to cities and towns even if Room and Meals Tax outperforms estimates; Chairman James Gray, R-Rochester, wants language to lower aid if tax fails to hit forecast. #nhpolitics

N.H. Senate Fin. Committee expected today restore three top issues public brought re: House approved budget: Erase 3% cut to Medicaid providers ($52 mil.), DD cuts ($31 mil.), Mental Health cuts ($37.7 mil). #nhpolitics