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Arnie Alpert and Maggie Fogarty of the American Friends’ Service Committee NH program close out the 2019 session of State House Watch Radio with Senate President Donna Soucy, and an extensive look at the current end-of-session status of what turns out to be ongoing negotiation between the Governor and Legislature while the State functions on a 3 month continuing resolution after the Governor’s budget veto. They look at some of the many gubernatorial vetoes that have stopped, at least temporarily, the legislature’s intentions for this year’s session. They also talked with Kathy Staub about the Minimum Wage Challenge, wherein legislators and others are invited to live for a week on the income that would be collected by a NH minimum wage worker.
Some of the topics covered were the minimum wage, tipped wages; the budget; the vetoes, net metering, party pressure against veto override, the budget; marijana; business taxes; business support for the legislators’ budget; education aid; community supports; children, youth, and families; mental health beds outside of emergency rooms; job training; post-veto budget negotiations [everything is back on the table]; there will be renewed budget action in September, along with a veto-override session.
The songs in today’s show are Janis Joplin singing Summertime, and Pete Seeger’s performance of Study War No More.
