The Concord Monitor’s Daniel Barrick reports that the New Hampshire Lottery Commission is abandoning its plans to expand into online gambling.

Garry Rayno reports for the Union Leader that the Fiscal Committee wants more information on the Lottery Commission’s idea for online gambling before giving the project the go-ahead.

Shira Schoenberg reports in the Concord Monitor that Governor John Lynch is taking heat for suggesting a single casino in southern New Hampshire.

The AP’s Norma Love, published in the Nashua Telegraph, sums up the state of budget negotiations in New Hampshire, with gambling the decisive issue on whether the Senate will agree to a budget balancing package.

The House-Senate Conference Committee on the budget stopped the clock at the State House yesterday after failing to meet its noon deadline. Tom Fahey reports in the Union Leader that they’ll get back together again this morning to try to close New Hampshire’s $295 million budget gap.

In the Concord Monitor, Shira Schoenberg writes that Senate negotiators aren’t giving up on gambling.

Kevin Landrigan adds in the Nashua Telegraph that several House tax increases have been dropped.

In the Concord Monitor, Shira Schoenberg reports on Senate negotiators calling an abrupt end to yesterday’s budget talks, with a noon deadline coming up today.

(CONCORD) House and Senate conferees spent their morning debating the merits of expanded gambling as they continue to negotiate the differences between House and Senate approved budget-balancing plans. The Committee of Conference is using HB 1128 as its starting point. Yesterday, the Committee hashed out the scope of problem facing the state, settling on $295.2 million. Committee Chair Marjorie Smith (D-Durham) also listed other areas of early agreement in a public statement:

Tom Fahey summarizes the finding of the study commission Governor Lynch formed to look at expanded gambling.

Shira Schoenberg reports in the Concord Monitor on the latest efforts of the House Finance Committee, which yesterday turned down a gambling amendment by Rep. Steve Vaillancourt.

Grant Bosse and Charlie Sherman discuss the Second JUA Raid, the latest gambling proposal, and the New Hampshire budget deficit in this week’s edition of New Hampshire Watchdog on WGIR.