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To The Editor:    Governor Chris Sununu is headed over to Dubai for a robotics conference. My question is what will this do for New Hampshire?       There can be little doubt that in the evolving sphere of robotics technology there are some big things happening like life changing things. Many New Hampshire schools are now building robotics into their STEM curriculums and there an increasing defense industrial complex in the southern tier of this state that has ties to developing robotic technology.       But Chris Sununu is the Governor of New Hampshire and he isn’t the Commissioner of Education or Business and Economic Affairs and he is leaving the Granite State at a time when there are pressing leadership needs here, whether this is the unfinished state budget or continuing issues in health and human services, transportation infrastructure and more recently, the liquor commission.       In th...

  Communities across New Hampshire are voting against keno. Bethlehem, Littleton and the rest of the North Country should do the same. Questionable If Keno will create revenue for local communities and education.   Described as assistance to education, particularly kindergarten keno is an electronic bingo game with below average payouts and the description I've heard "a state tax used to finance the bureaucracy in Concord."   Portsmouth, Keene and ironically even the city of Concord itself have voted against allowing keno. Their concerns are valid: that this state lottery game isn't going to return any major revenues to local economies or education.   This would be enhanced in the North Country which is already largely undeserved if not neglected by Concord to begin with. The actual gaming numbers of keno will also be significantly impacted by the next year startup of casinos in Boston and Springfield, Mass. which will immediately begin draining $62 million ...