Faced with difficult budgetary decisions, the Senate Finance Committee yesterday signaled a desire to find new revenue sources rather than make drastic cuts to social services.
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The 363 judicial branch employees in the State Employees' Association will join judges and other court staff in taking unpaid furloughs to meet a $3.1 million budget shortfall. The measure passed yesterday 149-4, with 80 percent of the eligible members voting.
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LITCHFIELD, N.H. – If a proposed casino complex in Hudson is approved, neighboring towns could gain jobs, business and direct revenue sharing.
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Conservative and Tea Party activists symbolically rode a congressman out of downtown on a rail yesterday, joined by a conservative stalwart of the 1980s -- Gordon Humphrey.
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Public pensions are increasingly asking a question that has haunted investors since the financial crisis: When is an alternative investment really more of the same?
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WASHINGTON—Republicans are looking beyond Sunday's expected vote on the Democrats' health-care overhaul to focus on strategies for striking back should it pass, ranging from challenges to the measure by individual states to a national repeal campaign.
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New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
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Gov. John Lynch (D) Elected: November 2004, 2006, 2008 Term expires: January 2011
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