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Republicans Seek to Eliminate Governor’s Family and Medical Leave Program
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The state’s not-yet-begun paid family and medical leave program is on the chopping block for some Republicans.
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The state’s not-yet-begun paid family and medical leave program is on the chopping block for some Republicans.
CONCORD – An effort to repeal the state’s new 24-week fetal protection law came to an emotional head at a legislative hearing, Thursday with personal testimony given by women on both sides of the issue of abortion and from the medical community that it will likely lead to a loss of those providing care in the Granite State if allowed to stand.
Gov. Chris Sununu was 3,416 miles from Concord Friday at Pedro Gomes High School in the Republic of Cabo Verde, a nation of 10 islands off the coast of Africa’s Senegal, to connect students there with students at Bow High School.
The Executive Council has rejected another effort to provide $1 million in funding for non-abortion reproductive health-care services for low-income residents at facilities in Concord, Greenland, Claremont, Manchester, Keene, Derry, and Exeter.
Gov. Chris Sununu said the nine people arrested after being disruptive at the Executive Council meeting earlier Wednesday showed the line of civility has moved in the state as people debate vaccine mandates and federal funding to help with COVID-19 vaccinations.
While a recount in the election has been requested by Republicans, Democrats were ready to take a victory lap over flipping a Bedford House of Representatives seat, from red to blue, this week.
A controversial plan to build a 170-foot cell tower near the White Mountain National Forest’s Welch-Dickey hiking trail on land owned by the Sununu family will go back to the Planning Board for reconsideration after the Zoning Board met to consider denial at the request of the developer.
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu has invited controversial EPA chief Scott Pruitt to New Hampshire seeking his help with a new “overly burdensome” municipal storm water discharge permit, a request that has caused concern among some environmentalists.