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The largest crowd yet of anti-Trump protesters met up at the State House Saturday for a rally coordinated with about a thousand other rallies nationwide, including fifteen others in New Hampshire from Colebrook to Plaistow and Portsmouth to Keene.
In broad terms, the very people who had to make the decisions for the draconian cuts in the proposed budget are the ones who helped put the committee in its awkward position.
A bar fight, a strip search, questionable finances, alleged racist texts, and a sexual harassment complaint are parts of the stories behind several new additions to the state’s Exculpatory Evidence Schedule.
In the 2018 election the Democrats won majorities in the New Hampshire House and Senate for the first time in nearly a decade and for only the fifth time since Franklin Pierce was elected President in 1853. Two years later the majorities were erased.
The finishing touches on a proposed House budget that cuts many state programs and services for the next two years but offers a balanced budget were worked out Thursday by the Finance Committee.
With the House budget writers facing two court rulings now awaiting state Supreme Court decisions, they took little action to address the challenges to the state’s education funding system, while adding tens of millions of dollars for the Education Freedom Account Program and charter schools above what Gov. Kelly Ayotte requested.
Ending speculation, Democratic New Hampshire Congressman Chris Pappas announced his plan Thursday to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jeanne Shaheen.
Children’s access to “obscene” or “harmful” materials in schools and school libraries is the focus of three bills this legislative session, with House Bill 324 causing some drama last week when its author read graphic scenes from two young adult novels on the House floor.
The grassroots upsurge of resistance to the policies of the Trump administration will reach a new peak Saturday, April 5, when demonstrations are expected in one thousand locations nationwide, including sixteen in New Hampshire.
Manchester Police are continuing their investigation into the tragic discovery of a deceased baby in the waters at Pine Island Park. Detectives now have a more refined timeline regarding when the child was placed in the water.
A Lowell man has pleaded guilty in federal court in Concord to aiding and abetting the robbery of a mail carrier, Acting U.S. Attorney Jay McCormack announces.
Armando Barron is going to stay in prison for the brutal murder of Jonathan Amerault after the New Hampshire Supreme Court rejected Barron’s appeal.
During the coldest months of the year, LIHEAP is instrumental in helping Americans afford to heat their homes or replace a broken furnace in an emergency.
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department has just released a draft 10-year game management plan for deer, bear, turkey and moose with objectives ranging by region.
From cutting Medicaid rates by 3 percent to eliminating funds for family planning clinics, to suspending the farmers market program for poor women, infants and children the House Finance Committee voted to recommend a state budget for Health and Human Services Tuesday, reducing $290 million from the next two years of general fund distributions.
A measure that would prohibit language related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in all state contracts going forward passed without public hearing by House Republicans in the Finance Committee who pushed for reconsideration of a vote to defeat it after a Democrat left the meeting at the end of a long day.
It appears that cell phone use in schools is about to be limited or entirely curtailed in New Hampshire classrooms.
A new study by the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute finds business tax rate reductions have cost the state between $795 million and $1.17 billion in forgone revenue since 2015 without the often promised bump in revenue due to increased economic activity.
Help us remember the fearless, longtime Concord Monitor columnist Katy Burns and support local journalism, which is needed now more than ever.
One can only read so many books and magazines. An angler can only play with their rods, reels and fly boxes so many times. I was going stir crazy.
Cuts to spending that could lead to layoffs July 1 and include the elimination of all tourism promotion funding by the state as well as money for the Arts Council were explained to the entire House Finance Committee during a meeting Monday.
At this time last year, Chatila’s Bakery employed 15 individuals at its wholesale facility to manage order fulfillment, but due to the economic challenges including those posed by tariffs, the bakery has reduced its workforce to just two employees.
With multiple polls showing housing as the top issue in New Hampshire by a wide margin, it’s no shock that the current legislative session is awash with proposals ostensibly aimed at addressing the state’s housing crisis.
Andru Volinsky has documented the arguments that have shaped his public life in a new book that will go on sale April 1, “The Last Bake Sale, The Fight for Fair School Funding.”