April 20, 2024

Arnie Alpert and Maggie Fogarty of the American Friends Service Committee/New Hampshire (www.afsc.org/nh) summarize the latest news from the State House Watch email newsletter and they interview former State Senator and PUC commissioner Clifton Below on casino gambling and solar electric net metering.

House Republican alliance & freedom caucus; June 30 budget deadline; Senate Finance Committee; SB7 foodstamps at House HHS committee; Voices of Faith, fasting; Tax day; SB3 voting bill in House Election Law committee (http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/housecommittees.aspx); HB356 education department non-germaine amendment; Bill reconciliation; SB193 school vouchers; SB247 lead protection; -Slave Driver, Taj Mahal- ; Clifton Below… budget issues; gambling… proximity; addiction; revenue; mechanism of addiction; regressive; (http://casinofreenh.org/); SB242 gambling; SB2 business tax reduction; fair and equitable taxation; -Food Stamp Stomp, Charlie King- ; Clifton Below… net metering; electric grid import/export/distribution infrastructure; distributed energy resources; real time pricing; municipal aggregation; grid-tie interconnection application; (http://www.nesea.org/); Arnie and Maggie, brief events preview.