New Hampshire on Thursday July 02, 2009

NH: News on revenues isn't good, but it's not all that bad
By Kevin Landrigan, The Telegraph (Nashua)
It's a sad state of financial affairs when taxes and fees come in $300 million under forecast and key state officials celebrate like they did Wednesday.
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NH: Some worry a new 9 percent tax on camping will keep people away
By Dana Smith, The Telegraph (Nashua)
For five months of the year, Marj Rawls and Janice Pollack make New Hampshire their home.
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Stimulus eases community college troubles
By Kimberly Leonard, Special to Stateline.org
States are digging into their federal stimulus money to help finance community colleges, where rising tuition, soaring enrollment and budget cuts threaten to shut students out of the system.
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Weekly wrap: Report questions states' use of stimulus road funds
By John Gramlich, Stateline.org Staff Writer
States are spending too much stimulus money on new road construction and not enough on public transit projects, a national advocacy group claims in a report issued Monday (June 29). Meanwhile, Michigan and California consider teaming up to solve their prison problems and North Carolina and Rhode Island face off with Amazon.com over taxes.
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NH: Health group applauds higher NH tobacco tax
By The Associated Press, Foster's Daily Democrat (Dover)
Health groups see a silver lining in one of New Hampshire's new tax increases.
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NH: NH's books continue to show red ink
By The Associated Press, Foster's Daily Democrat (Dover)
New Hampshire's books continue to bleed red ink. The latest revenue report for June shows the fiscal year ended $292 million below the estimates developed two years ago. Receipts for June were $33 million below estimates, thanks mostly to poor business tax receipts.
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NH: NH gov vetoes giving marital masters judges' power
By The Associated Press, Foster's Daily Democrat (Dover)
Gov. John Lynch has vetoed a bill that gives rulings made by marital masters the weight of a judicial decision.
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NH: Sigh of relief for area schools -- But worry about state funding in the future
By Adam D. Krauss, Foster's Daily Democrat (Dover)
Seacoast school districts are set to receive more than $4.5 million next school year in building aid, with additional funds coming during the 2010-2011 school year, following passage of the state budget.
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NH: Official -- Contracts will be tough
By Lauren R. Dorgan, Concord Monitor
The state's chief negotiator charged with hammering out a new union contract with state employees said yesterday that he hopes to seal a deal within a week, but it's difficult for the state to offer either long-term promises or contract sweeteners amid an ongoing recession and severe budget crunch.
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VT: N.H. among states hit by E. coli in beef
By The Associated Press, Burlington Free Press
WASHINGTON — At least 12 people, two of them suffering kidney failure, have been hospitalized in connection with a possible E. coli outbreak in beef suspected of having sickened people in nine states, federal health officials said Wednesday.
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US: Coming to 25 states -- higher taxes
By Mark Trumbull, The Christian Science Monitor
More than half of US states are responding to budget challenges with an answer that's often unpopular with their residents: tax hikes.
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US: Mississippi tops obesity rankings; Colorado is leanest state
By The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- Mississippi remains at the top of the list in this year's national annual obesity rankings, with Alabama coming in second. Outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news.
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