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Education Funding

By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, June 25, 2003.

A new plan lowers the statewide property tax and supporters say better targets money to needy districts. But, will the plan meet constitutional muster? Laura's guests are Sen. Ted Gatsas, House Democratic Leader Peter Burling, Doug Hall, co-executive directer of the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies, Ted Jankowski, Director for the Coalition Communities Seeking Fair Funding for Education, and Dean Michener, Director of Governmental Relations and School Finance with the NH School Boards Association.

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Lawmakers Pass Budget And Await Veto

By Josh Rogers on Wednesday, June 25, 2003.

The Legislature agrees on 2.7 billion dollar state budget despite a threatened veto from Governor Craig Benson.

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AG To Examine Benson's Disclosure

By Josh Rogers on Wednesday, June 25, 2003.

The Attorney General’s office has agreed to investigate Democratic Party allegations that Governor Craig Benson improperly disclosed his financial ties to a Golf Club regulated by the state.

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Curious New England

By John Walters on Wednesday, June 25, 2003.

The travel section of your local bookstore contains many guidebooks to New England. But if you are interested in the odd, obscure, and downright strange, there is a new book for you. Joe Citro and Diane Foulds have written Curious New England: The Unconventional Traveler?s Guide to Eccentric Destinations. In it you?ll find one-of-a-kind museums, cemeteries, ghosts, curios, giant rocks and more. Find out more at University Press of New England

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A First in the Nation Primary... on the Web?

By Raquel Maria Dillon on Wednesday, June 25, 2003.

At midnight tonight, the polls will close in cyberspace. MoveOn-dot-org, a liberal internet-based political organization, is holding what it calls the first online presidential primary. Most of the Democratic presidential candidates have been falling over themselves to get out the vote. New Hampshire Public Radio?s Raquel Maria Dillon asked, does a virtual victory translate into real results?

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