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Hello. I'm Richard Ager, Beth Carroll is off. Welcome to this Friday Edition of New Hampshire Outlook. The election's over, everyone is sworn in, and now it's time for New Hampshire's 424 legislators to get to work. More on that in a moment, but first: Joining us from Concord we have Kevin Landrigan, statehouse reporter for the Telegraph and Colin Manning who also reports on the legislature for Foster's Daily Democrat. And here in our studio, Jeff Feingold from the NH Business Review. Welcome all of you. |
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With the inauguration out of the way, Governor John Lynch and the legislature got down to serious work this week. On Wednesday, the new governor had his first full meeting with the Executive Council. One item on the agenda that drew a lot of attention was 100-thousand dollars in federal money that was being made available to install security fences and cameras on the Piscataqua River bridge linking New Hampshire and Maine. After considerable discussion, the council members voted not to accept the money. When asked about it after, the governor defended the vote. |
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The budget, of course, will be the main topic of discussion in this legislative session and with more Democrats in both chambers and a Democratic governor, much has changed since the last budget cycle. This week the House and Senate began their joint hearings with presentations by regional economics experts. I spoke with the new chairman of the Senate Finance Committee on what they were hearing. |
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One issue that returned to the statehouse this week is groundwater. Currently, the Department of Environmental Services decides whether to grant a permit for a large withdrawal, as it has done for USA Springs in Nottingham. That permit has generated much opposition, and a new bill heard this week would essentially grant any municipality veto power over the process. |
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On Thursday, Governor Lynch held a news conference along with Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen. The subject: Granite Care; Commissioner Stephen's proposal to overhaul the state's Medicaid system. |
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The onetime presidential candidate who shook up the Demoratic party now says he's ready to lead his party out of the wilderness. This week Howard Dean formally announced he is a candidate to chair the Democratic National Committee. The former Vermont Governor used the internet to announce his intention to run -- the same tool he used to break fundraising records in his presidential campaign. Dean has been unofficially campaigning for the job since November. |
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I'm Richard Ager. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook: He changed the face of science museums. A profile of photographer, adventurer and mapper Bradford Washburn. Join us tonight at 10:00 only on New Hampshire Public Television. |
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Friday, January 14, 2005: We started around 2:15pm. We had a wrong key. we stopped briefly to fix it. All else went well. We finished by 2:50pm. |