By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu alone holds the purse strings on all distribution of federal COVID-19 relief money, and he does not need the oversight of the Democratically controlled Legislative Fiscal Committee, a Hillsborough County North Superior Court judge has ruled.
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