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Some days as I ramble the fields and hills of the White Mountains I find myself pondering all the mistakes we have made as a nation in what we have always hoped would be the path to a “more perfect union.”
New Hampshire stood out on a recently published map of states changing voting laws to expand restrictions. It was the only state in the Northeastern part of the country to do so, while the other states making changes were in the south and in the west.
Today I muse joyfully on the mural in progress on the wall of the Salvation Army in Rochester.
John has been my fly fishing mentor. John is partly responsible for my fly fishing addiction.
Earlier Friday night, in a brief submitted to the U.S. First Court of Appeals, the United States Department of Justice took a strong position in favor of the plaintiffs in the case of Cushing et al v Packard, repudiating the doctrine of legislative immunity, as Speaker Sherman Packard is seeking to use it in this case to avoid the state’s responsibility to obey the law.
When Martha Hennessy was released from a federal prison and transferred to an “adult residential re-entry” program in Manchester, it wasn’t her first trip to the Queen City or her first entanglement with the criminal legal system.
The state Department of Health and Human announced 101 new positive test results for COVID-19 and one death Thursday.
As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to climb along with the fast-spreading Delta variant, Gov. Chris Sununu is not changing his position on masks and his spokesman complained that the mask news out of Washington is confusing.
Katie Duran of Wolfeboro was beaming and said she almost accidentally signed House Bill 581 just after Gov. Chris Sununu in celebration of a measure that places the burden of proof in special education on the system rather than the parent.
President Joe Biden’s tax proposals being debated in Washington this summer are being greeted with enthusiasm and support by New Hampshire residents because they look to tax the wealthy rather than raise debt, according to a new poll.
After failing to reach a settlement agreement through mediation, lawyers for Nashua’s Bishop Guertin High School want to have the sex abuse lawsuit brought by a former student dismissed.
A bail hearing scheduled for Wednesday that was to include the presentation of evidence in the murder and decapitation case involving Jaffrey’s Britany Barron was called off late Tuesday, and it is still unclear why.
There are currently 20 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. In New Hampshire since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 100,465 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.
Director of Charitable Trusts Thomas Donovan has petitioned for restitution, damages, civil penalties, and fees in a case alleging that a former Portsmouth attorney defrauded the Salvation Army of assets his client had intended to go to the charity.
A new study of the pandemic’s effect on state revenues shows New Hampshire in the middle of the pack nationally.
The Pew Research Center’s study, using US Census data for quarterly revenue collections by the states and adjusted for inflation, shows some states rebounding quicker than others in revenue collection which includes taxes, licensing, and compulsory fees with most states returning to pre-pandemic levels in the first half of this calendar year.