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April 6, 2012

Navy Admiral Calls Portsmouth Naval Shipyard A “Critical” Installation

With continued talk of pruning the Pentagon’s budget, the military has told Congress it plans to save money by starting a new round of base realignment and closure, or BRAC. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard was spared during the last BRAC round in 2005. Still, the senate delegations from Maine and New Hampshire have been vocal […]

January 31, 2012

Governor Uses State Of The State To Rally Support For Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

Governor John Lynch added his voice to those of other New England politicians preemptively opposing closure of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. In his State of the State address, Lynch said: “When the federal government threatened to close the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard [in 2005], the workers, lawmakers, local businesses and the community at large came together […]

December 8, 2011

How Defense And Other Federal Spending In NH Stacks Up To The Rest Of The Country

Yesterday, we showed you a cool infographic created by a team of reporters at Stateline detailing, state-by-state, how a European recession could affect the US export economy. Although New Hampshire wasn’t among the “highest risk” states, it ranked as “high risk.” (You can check out that post here.) And it seems that the folks at […]

November 23, 2011

NH Senators React To Super-Committee Failure–And How It Could Affect Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

The big national news this week has been the failure of the bipartisan congressional “super-committee” to reach a deficit deal. So unless Congress comes up with another plan over the next year or so, in 2013 a series of automatic spending cuts across the federal government go into effect. On the defense side, reporter Anna […]

July 28, 2011

Memorial Bridge Losing Weight

After years of hanging together with the civil engineering equivalent of duct tape and hope, Memorial Bridge, connecting Portsmouth to Kittery, Maine, is finally closed for good. At least as far as drivers are concerned, anyway. The New Hampshire Department of Transportation has been keeping its fingers crossed, hoping the 88-year old bridge would hold up […]

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