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September 21, 2012

Outside Spending Plays Large Role In N.H. Campaigns

This article was written by Brian Wallstin for NHPR. In the days leading up to the September 11 primary, a Manchester-based political action committee called New Hampshire Republicans for Freedom and Equality launched a direct-mail campaign to support the re-election of 40 Republican House members who helped turn back efforts to repeal the state’s same-sex […]

September 18, 2012

BIA Panel Considers Commuter Rail

This November, commuter rail in Maine begins running all the way from Brunswick, Maine, to Boston. Meanwhile, Massachusetts is preparing to extend lines from Springfield to Burlington, Vermont. That leaves some people in New Hampshire feeling a little left out. Peter Burling is the former chair of the New Hampshire Rail Transit Authority. Speaking at […]

September 14, 2012

After A Tenuous Year, N.H. Fishery Receives Disaster Declaration

This story was written and produced for broadcast by Sam Evans-Brown, and edited for StateImpact New Hampshire by Emily Corwin. Hear the original broadcast. It’s been a difficult year for New Hampshire fishermen. Although fishermen have stayed within their catch limits, stocks of codfish haven’t rebounded from a decade-old collapse as quickly as expected. Facing […]

September 13, 2012

Economic Impact Of The Arts In N.H. Is At Least $115 Million

Just 21 percent of all arts and culture organizations in New Hampshire create a total of $115 million in economic activity in the state. That’s according to a report released today by the N.H. State Council on the Arts. Those 161 organizations support the equivalent of 3,493 full-time jobs, and generate $11.6 million in local […]

September 12, 2012

USNH Seeks Deal With Lawmakers To Restore Funding

The University System of New Hampshire’s board of trustees is requesting that the legislature restore its state funding. At a board meeting Tuesday the board approved a budget request re-appropriating the nearly $50 million that was cut by the legislature last year. In exchange for the funds, the USNH is offering to freeze in-state tuition […]

August 23, 2012

Catfish or No Catfish? N.H. Seafood Processor Worried By Farm Bill

Pangasius – it looks like catfish, it tastes like catfish — but is it catfish? Believe it or not, this is a question Congress has been debating for the last decade. One seafood company with headquarters in New Hampshire hopes a provision in the 2012 Farm Bill will put an end to the debate. Bill […]

August 22, 2012

Without Lynch, Casino Legislation More Likely To Pass

Imagine a high school cafeteria with painted concrete walls and linoleum floors. Then switch out the lunch-tables for blackjack and poker tables — and you’ve got Rockingham Park, the race-track turned gaming room at the epicenter of New Hampshire’s debate over expanded gambling. Just about every year for the last 15 years, the legislature has […]

August 17, 2012

Pension Privatization Update: House Committee Scopes Out Financial Services Firms

Today, a legislative committee investigating pension privatization issued a request for information from companies that manage retirement funds. After pension reform legislation failed to pass last term, House Speaker O’Brien requested that a committee convene over the summer to craft new legislation for next term. The committee will likely propose to move all new public […]

August 9, 2012

Severed From State, Is McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center Ready For Lift Off?

When celebrated Concord resident and high school teacher Christa McAuliffe died in the Challenger explosion in 1986, an out-of-state donor offered $500,000 to build a monument in downtown Concord. As then-mayor Jim MacKay remembers, the city declined. Instead, the state built a planetarium. Today – 26 years after the state opened the McAuliffe Planetarium — […]

July 11, 2012
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