Ayotte suggests leasing surplus state land for housing
Gov. Kelly Ayotte suggests leasing surplus state land for residential development to help curb New Hampshire's housing shortage and attract more workers to the state.
Truth or dare
Apparently those doomsayers who have predicted that the state faces a more than $300 million budget gap in the next biennium are way off the mark. Just ask Governor Benson, who has assured his citizenry that the budget gap will be a mere $150 million – a walk in the park, to coin a phrase.
Besides, who are you going to believe about upcoming deficits? Your choices:
• Those numbers-crunching nerds at the Center for Public Policy Studies think tank — who produced the $300 million forecast.
• The guy who predicted he would cut $50 million from the current budget through savings and efficiencies — $11 million from technology savings alone.
Maybe it’s a toss-up – neither the $300 million deficit nor the millions in savings have appeared yet.
