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Next on New Hampshire Outlook, Journalists from around the state discuss the week's top stories. We'll focus on education, taxes and choice. |
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Good Evening. I'm Trish Anderton sitting in for Allison McNair. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. We begin tonight with a summary of today's state news. |
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The towns who's efforts declared the statewide property tax uncontitutional want to slow down the state's appeal to the state Supreme Court. They may have their chance to make their case Monday, at a prehearing conference before the court. Attorney General Philip McLaughlin says he doesn't think the so-called "donor-towns" understand the seriousness of the situation. The towns say the state has only itself to blame. |
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Governor Jeanne Shaheen continues her campaign to promote her school funding plan. The proposal calls for a two-point-five percent sales tax combined with a reduced statewide property tax to pay for schools. Shaheen today said a competing Republican proposal would lead to fiscal disaster. House Republicans say the state doesn't need a broad-based tax. They want to use business tax revenues to pay for schools and shift any deficit to other state spending. |
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Business owners are also conducting campaigns of their own. A group called the Coalition for New Hampshire Businesses Against the Sales Tax is trying to get retailers to testify against the tax. And the New Hampshire Chapter of the National Federation of Business says a sales tax is the wrong approach to paying for schools. We'll have more on the School Funding and Tax debate in our roundtable discussion coming up in just a few minutes. |
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is giving all four members of New Hampshire's congressional delegation its Spirit of Enterprise award. The chamber gave Senators Judd Gregg and Bob Smith and Congressman Charles Bass and John Sununu the award based on how they voted on 15 business issues important to the chamber. Those issues included expanding trade and repealing the estate tax. |
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Two Wilmot artists have been commissioned to design a statue of the founder of detroit. William Kieffer and Ann Feeley will make a seven and a half foot bronze statue of Antoine Cadillac. The statue was commissioned by an organization of French companies. It'll be unveiled on July 24 marking the 300th anniversay of the day Cadillac canoed to the Detroit site. While no one knows what Cadillac looked like - no paintings are known to have been made of him - Kieffer is modeling the face after his son. |
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Turning now to the weather. I spoke earlier with Brian Post of the Mount Washington Observatory about this weekend's forecast and the outlook from the summit. |
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In Business news today, investors appeared to be in a selling mood as more talk of layoffs dashed hopes about the chances for a quick turnaround in the economy and company earnings. Motorola plans to cut up to four-thousand jobs, a three percent cut in its semiconductor work force. It's part of efforts to save money in a softening market. The Dow dropped 99 points. The Nasdaq was down 91. And the S&P was down 18. Here's a look at some stocks of interest to New Hamsphire. It was a down day for all the big movers including Cabletron, Oracle, Oxford Health, Texas Instruments and Timberland. |
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Monday on New Hampshire Outlook - New Hampshire Public Radio is changing its format. Outlook takes you behind the microphone to show you what's changing and why. |
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That's all for this edition of Outlook tonight. I'm Trish Anderton. Join me Monday on New Hampshire Public Radio. Stay tuned for UNH Wildcat Hockey Allison McNair will be back Monday at 7:30. Have a great weekend. Goodnight. |
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AP-NH--Chamber Awards dewho All four members of N.H. delegation get chamber award -- All four members of New Hampshire's congressional delegation are getting high marks from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The chamber gave Senators Judd Gregg and Bob Smith and Congressman Charles Bass and John Sununu its Spirit of Enterprise award. It's based on how members of Congress vote on 15 business issues important to the chamber. The included expanding trade and repealing the estate tax. AP-NY-02-09-01 1047EST |
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State accuses former town sewage plant operator in Greenville -- State and federal officials have charged the former head of the town wastewater treatment plant in Greenville with polluting the Souhegan River. The criminal complaint accuses David Bourgault of allowing raw sewage to be released to the river from May 1999 to February of 2000. As chief operator at the treatment plant, Bourgault was responsible for monitoring and testing treated waste before discharging it into the river. The charge carries a sentence of up to a year in jail and a two-thousand-dollar fine. AP-NY-02-09-01 1013EST |