Archive of New Hampshire on Wednesday July 01, 2009
NH: $11.5b state budget given OK by Lynch
By Kevin Landrigan, The Telegraph (Nashua)
Gov. John Lynch signed an $11.5 billion state budget Tuesday as one judge threatened to blow a $110 million hole in it and another put at risk a $9 million state government money grab.
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NH: No new contract for SEA
By Lauren R. Dorgan, Concord Monitor
A midnight deadline came and went last night and most state employees still don't have a new contract, leaving unresolved a looming question of whether budget-mandated personnel cuts will come through widespread unpaid furloughs, benefits cuts or hundreds of additional layoffs.
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Financial crisis torments states
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
(Updated 11:29 a.m. EDT, July 1, 2009)
California may begin issuing IOUs this week because of the state’s unresolved budget crisis. But government disruptions were averted at least temporarily in five other states that missed a July 1 deadline for closing billion-dollar budget gaps.
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US: Colorado the least obese state
By Lauren Neergaard, The Associated Press, The Denver Post
WASHINGTON—Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.
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NH: Judge freezes $9 m contested NH funding
By The Associated Press, Foster's Daily Democrat (Dover)
A superior court judge has frozen $9 million in surplus funding the state and New Hampshire's nursing homes both claim.
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NH: NH increasing some court fees, creating new ones
By The Associated Press, Foster's Daily Democrat (Dover)
An increased fee for records research and new fees for certain petitions, motions, and other matters are going into effect in the New Hampshire court system.
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