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The death penalty was abolished in 2019 in NH thanks to decades of work led by the late Rep. Renny Cushing, Barbara Keshen and many others. A few radical state Republicans want to bring it back.
Most people never know the ingredients that coalesce to become legislation, the back-room deals, “you vote for my bill, I will vote for yours,” the compromises hammered out in late night conversations, the stroking, the threatening and the money that may not change hands, but fuels future campaigns.
Patty devoted herself to many community services – reading to children with polio at Mary Hitchcock hospital, volunteering at Howe Library, the PTA, the League of Women Voters, and as a ski instructor for the Ford Sayre ski program.
As always, Trump’s failure is not a failure of ambition but a failure of vision and leadership. His mistake lies not in choosing to act, but in neglecting to build a new and viable system to replace what we have.
Advocates pushed for removing the enrollment cap from the Education Freedom Account program, while opponents said the state needs to fully fund its obligations to public schools instead.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
A Democrat-backed bill that requires local budgetary authority approval before law enforcement agencies can enter an agreement with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement got a hearing Thursday.
For the last six months of 2025, the Northern Border Alliance made almost 600 stops including vehicles, OHRVs and pedestrians, six arrests, responded to 45 emergency calls, issued 16 citations and made one assist for Border Patrol, according to a report made public Wednesday by the state Department of Safety.
The man appeared to be unconscious with a stab wound in his chest when police were called at about 9:20 p.m. on Tuesday.
Several hours after hearing from North Country leaders that a bill was “deeply insulting” and could negatively impact business in the region, a Senate committee recommended the entire body kill Senate Bill 424, which would have eliminated the position of the northern county area industrial agent.
In the race for the open seat of retiring U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, her predecessor, former Senator John E. Sununu, leads former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown for the Republican nomination, while Congressman Chris Pappas is the Democratic favorite. Pappas leads both Sununu and Brown in general election matchups.
There’s nothing better than a good story, a story that prompts a giggle, a gasp, a pause. Talking story is life at its best, that “expression of endearment,” that trust.
A bill that would have election officials include in their voting return a list of the number of people who attempted to register to vote but were turned away due to lack of verification of age, citizenship, domicile or identity was the subject of a bill Tuesday that overwhelmingly supported by members of the public, but opposed by the Secretary of State.
Time and again throughout the last year, President Trump has shown America whose side he is on—and it isn’t the working American families he campaigned on championing.
The dusting to a light covering of snow is now piling up in my driveway. My plans for the day went south pretty quickly.
At a time when civil rights protections are under renewed scrutiny nationally and in the Granite State, the hard-fought journey to recognizing Martin Luther King Day in New Hampshire offers valuable lessons.
Under Article 33 of the Mexican constitution, foreigners can’t meddle in Mexican politics, but they otherwise are entitled to human rights, including freedom of expression. Democrats Abroad has held sidewalk protests and rallies before.
If you have read this column for a while you will probably remember that the late R. Buckminster Fuller (aka “Buckminster” or “Bucky”) was a hero of mine growing up. For that reason alone, it is necessary to give Bucky credit for the title and the conceptual “metaphor” of this column.
A man wanted for murder in Maine was taken into custody by the New Hampshire State Police following a multi-state pursuit.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte and Aurora Sustainable Lands signed an agreement Friday on the management of the 146,000-acre Connecticut Lakes Headwaters Working Forest in the North Country after the state rejected the company’s required 10-year stewardship plan almost two years ago.
CONCORD – State Rep. Wendy Thomas wrapped up her testimony on HB1609 Thursday quoting a message from a source saying a Merrimack police officer on patrol confirmed the location of a proposed ICE holding center when the officer stopped them from taking photos of it.
Hunter Nadeau, 24, has been indicted in connection with opening gunfire at the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua on Sept. 20, 2025.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
There are too many examples of Democratic political leaders focused on the inflection point, trying to maintain a status quo in a time that is not normal.