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Financial issues and challenges faced by faced by NH companies and the economy as a whole.
Saying it is 20 to 30 percent of its normal size, Gov. Chris Sununu said Bike Week is what he had hoped for and noted that restaurants and bars have responded well to COVID-19 precautions to keep people safe.
Amusement parks will be able to expand capacity from 25 to 35 percent and cruise boats and excursion trains from 50 to 100 percent provided their guests can maintain six feet of social distance, the governor’s policy director said Thursday.
Apple picking season in New Hampshire has arrived with farmers looking at a handsome crop this year, but also keeping an eye to the sky in hopes of more rain.
Gov. Chris Sununu’s policy of deleting office emails after 30 days undermines New Hampshire’s right to know, according to a public records lawsuit seeking communications between Sununu’s and Wisconsin’s ex-Gov. Scott Walker’s offices about redistricting legislation Sununu vetoed in 2019.
All law enforcement-involved shootings in New Hampshire are investigated by the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office and the State Police Major Crimes Unit, but not in an open way that builds trust that police officers who take lives are being held accountable, according to Manchester attorney Larry Vogelman.
Gov. Sununu said existing universal guidance on bars and restaurants would be now enforced by the state’s liquor commission to ensure that people stay in their seats, cannot mingle or hang at the bar and said earlier curfews in bars could definitely be on the table to manage those types of activities.
Gov. Chris Sununu told the press last week that he has created a task force of state and city officials, and event organizers to help make sure the nine-day rally goes off “without a hitch” and does not become a super spread event of COVID-19, but Charlie St. Clair said he does not yet know who is on the task force with just 11 days to go.
The bill would have established extreme risk protection orders through a civil process initiated by a person’s family, housemates or law enforcement.
COVID-19 continues to impact state revenues, both positively and negatively, as the numbers are in for the first month of the 2021 fiscal year.