Fisher Ranch LLC — a major produce farm near the Mexican border — has agreed to pay $49,104 for violating the Migrant Seasonal Workers Protection Act.
Health & Mental Health
U.S. Senate Committee Proposes $50 Million to Prevent Mothers Dying in Childbirth
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After years of Congressional inaction, legislators in both parties want to back efforts by states and hospitals to reduce the U.S. maternal mortality rate, the highest in the developed world.
Courts & Corrections
NH Fights To Keep Hearing Closed on Removing Milan Mom as Son’s Guardian
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CONCORD – A Milan mother who is fighting to keep guardianship of her son who is being held in the state prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit said the state objects to allowing InDepthNH.org cover the upcoming hearing as she and her son have both requested.
Study Links Declining Union Strength to More Workplace Deaths
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It’s no secret that the waning power of American unions has contributed to stagnant wages. But a new study suggests that this trend hasn’t affected just worker income. It also may have cost thousands of lives.
Health & Mental Health
Andrew Butler Is Home In Hollis After Being Released Friday
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CONCORD – Andrew Butler was beaming his trademark smile Friday morning after being released from the New Hampshire Hospital, happy to be heading home to Hollis after almost five months in the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison even though he hadn’t committed a crime.
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UNH Research: Higher Urban Opioid Death Rates, Dramatic Increases in Rural Counties
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The most dramatic increases in opioid deaths were in the rural Midwest where they were 16 times higher in 2016 than in 1999 and in the rural Northeast where they were 11.4 times higher.
Milan Mom Fights To Keep Guardianship Of Son At Secure Psychiatric Unit
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Nancy Heath of Milan is fighting to keep legal guardianship of her adult son, Anthony Heath, who has been locked up for about two years in the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison in Concord after being found not competent to stand trial.
Feature
Sen. D’Allesandro: NH Seized Healthcare Opportunities
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OPINION: Our state made a difference for local residents.
Business & Economy
New EPA Superfund Chief Meets with Seacoast Residents on Coakley Landfill
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The meeting came only days before the executive committee of the Coakley Landfill Group meets in Portsmouth on June 7th, the first such meeting open to the public, and only weeks before an EPA Region 1 Summit on the agency’s strategic plan to address PFAS on June 25th-26th at the Pease Tradeport in Portsmouth.
Change May Be Coming For Andrew Butler and All Non-Convicts at Prison Psych Unit
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CONCORD – The mood among lawmakers has changed dramatically over the last three years that InDepthNH.org has been investigating the state’s decades-long practice of locking up mentally ill people in the prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit even if they haven’t been convicted of a crime.