Story Archives of 'Terie Norelli'

Despite backing from legislative leaders and Governor Lynch, amendment falls about 100 votes short of the needed 3/5th support. The margin has top house lawmakers from both parties saying they see little hope an amendment could ever win broad bipartisan backing.

The morning after Governor John Lynch’s State of the State Address, we’ll sit down with the leadership of the House and Senate to talk about the report and the picture it paints of the health of the Granite State. We’ll also look at what implications the speech may have in terms of policy and legislation for the new year.

Guests

• Sylvia Larsen, Democrat from Concord and President of the Senate
• Ted Gatsas, Republican from Manchester and Senate Minority Leader
• Terie Norelli, Democrat from Portsmouth and Speaker of the House
• Gene Chandler, Republican Representative from Bartlett who is currently the Senior Republican Policy Advisor in the House and former Speaker of the House

Child advocates have submitted their annual list of legislative initiatives.

Like in previous years, the advocates talk about education, healthcare and poverty.

But New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein reports, what's different this year is that some of these proposals may actually pass.

A landslide victory for Democrats, devastating floods across the state, the tragic shooting of a Manchester Police officer, the end of a chapter for the city of Berlin and a couple of New Hampshire National Guardsmen turned movie stars. We'll talk to those who topped the news or who helped shaped big news events in 2006 about what happened, what happened since and hopes for for the coming year.

Laura's guests are New Hampshire's new Speaker of the House Terie Norelli; former Republican Congressman Charles Bass; Manchester Chief of Police John A. Jaskolka; city planner for Berlin, Pamela LaFlamme; UNH student and New Hampshire National Guard Staff Sergeant Zach Bazzi; and James Van Dongen, Public Information Officer for The Department of Safety's Bureau of Emergency Management.

Congress has been weighing whether to raise the minimum wage for the first time in nearly a decade, and it could be one of the key issues in this fall's elections. We'll look at the debate over raising the minimum wage and what it means here in New Hampshire. Jon's guests are Terie Norelli, Democratic State Representative from Portsmouth, and Kevin Sullivan, chairman of the New Hampshire Lodging and Restaurant Association. We'll also hear from Ross Gittell, Professor of Management at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire, and author of a study profiling New Hampshire workers making the minimum wage; and Julie Donnelly, NHPR's Washington correspondent.