CONCORD — Several hours after hearing from North Country leaders that a bill was “deeply insulting” and could negatively impact business in the region, a Senate committee recommended the entire body kill Senate Bill 424, which would have eliminated “the position of the Northern County Area Industrial Agent within the Department of Business and Economic Affairs.”
State Sen. Tim McGough, R-Merrimack, made the motion Jan. 21 in the Senate Executive Departments and Administration Committee to recommend killing it, saying though it was well-intended “it clearly does not have the support from at least a good portion of the North Country or all of the North Country so I am happy to find at this time (it) truly inexpedient to legislate and we will find other ways to invest in our economic development.”
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