Story Archives of 'budget'

Another foot of snow fell this week in parts of New Hampshire.
This winter, the snowfall is record-setting for many towns and cities, with some areas seeing more than 10 feet.
While it’s great for the ski industry, municipalities are struggling to remove the snow and finding a place to put it.
New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports.

Communities across the state are facing budget shortfalls this winter.

And many are looking to raise property taxes to solve the problem.

In Nashua, homeowners could see their taxes go up by as much as 17 percent.

New Hampshire Public Radio correspondent Shannon Mullen has more.

The New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies released a report today/Friday that candidates for state office should look at……
According to the report, most of the increase in the state’s budget over the past decade took place in six key areas of spending.
And those areas are controlled not by those writing up the budget…but by state and federal law.
The Center’s Co-director Doug Hall explained the reports findings to NHPR’s David Darman. For a copy of the report go to www.nhpolicy.org

State budgets are beginning to feel the effects of the economic slowdown. Early last week New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen told state officials to prepare for possible budget cuts. And in Vermont, lawmakers and the governor are facing the prospect of cutting millions of dollars from a budget that just last year was projecting multi-million dollar surpluses. NHPR Correspondent Chris Bracken has more.

When the legislature passed the biennial budget two weeks ago, it cut 1.8 million dollars earmarked for security at New Hampshire’s thirty-nine district courts. While lawmakers defend the cut as prudent fiscal policy, court officials say it could prove disastrous….not only for the 33 full-time workers who could lose their jobs……but also for the citizens they serve. NHPR’s Josh Rogers has more.