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CONCORD – InDepthNH.org showcases our expanded coverage of the State House with veteran journalist Garry Rayno at the helm. State House InDepthkeeps you posted on stories that matter to you and highlights the happenings beneath the gold dome you need to know about. Rayno writes his weekly Distant Dome column and reporters Nancy West, Evan Lips, Gail Ober, Tony Marquis and Rachael Brown complete our team coverage.
Trump won the 2016 Republican primary in New Hampshire but lost the state’s four electoral college votes in the general election when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, beat him by 0.3 percent of the vote. Such a small margin – fewer than 3,000 votes – makes the state a battleground.
The bill will compel the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services to take action, when the EPA will not, and make the polluters stop toxins from flowing off the Coakley Landfill and polluting the surfacewater, groundwater and drinking water of the seacoast.
Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed three gun violence prevention bills, minimum wage legislation, a redistricting commission and others on Friday that were all close to the hearts of Democratic lawmakers.
Highlighting a growing epidemic among adolescents in New Hampshire, e-cigarettes are now the tobacco product most commonly used by youth in the state.
CONCORD — More than 100 opponents of gun violence gathered at the State House Monday to demand Gov. Chris Sununu sign three bills which they believe would help protect the Granite State from mass gun violence.
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From opioid addiction recovery to women’s health-care services, advocates, patients and officials packed a hearing room to tell budget writers Thursday why the state needs the operating budget Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed.
Executive Councilor Andru Volinski asked to be briefed about the indictments against two former state employees charged with sexual assault of a child at the former YDC property in Manchester for troubled youths.
Most of the bills Gov. Sununu vetoed had Republican support, according to Rep. Porter.
Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.
