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The real plan has been cut taxes and that has been what Republican majorities in the Legislature have been doing with the blessing of former Gov. Chris Sununu and current Gov. Kelly Ayotte, who in her State-of-the-State address received a knowingly cheap applause line with her call for no new or increased taxes.
Hundreds of community members braved the cold and snowy weather on Saturday afternoon at town hall to protest the proposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility at 50 Robert Milligan Parkway.
“There is so much going on that needs pushback right now that I can’t keep my cartoon mouth shut any longer,” Marland said. Harlan and Gemma Whetstone are the main characters in Up On The Hill.
Visiting Nurse Home Care and Hospice of Carroll County & Western Maine has established the Susan M. Ruka Award for Excellence in Aging and Public Health, an annual recognition honoring an individual who demonstrates outstanding dedication, innovation, and leadership in improving the lives of older adults and promoting public health.
It was a heartwarming article in the New York Times, which takes pride in being our nation’s newspaper of record. A restaurant in Syria is going out of its way to serve kosher meals to Jewish visitors.
Republican senators passed what Democrats call a “book ban” bill and another that requires teachers to notify parents within 10 days upon written questions about their child’s behavior and activities in school.
As hard as they tried, Democrats could not get a single Republican vote in the Senate to pass a number of initiatives offered, including bills to help support infrastructure development for new housing, allow for redistricting maps to be developed before public hearings, and a number of bills that would better monitor oversight of Education Funding Accounts.
Prohibiting the teaching of critical race theory or LGBTQ+ ideologies and other alleged Marxist derived educational theories in public schools was initially approved by the House Thursday.
House lawmakers Thursday defeated an attempt to repeal the state’s immunization requirements for children to attend public schools or day-care programs.
The New Hampshire Judicial Conduct Committee says it is still investigating state Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi even though she retired Feb. 12 at the age of 70, pleaded no contest last October to a single misdemeanor charge in a plea agreement and was allowed to return to work.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that President Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and ICE have engaged with governors across the country, including Gov. Kelly Ayotte, about the need for more immigrant detention warehouses, including the one planned for Merrimack.
In a victory for academic freedom and education equity, the U.S. Department of Education conceded the end of its February 14, 2025, “Dear Colleague” directive that sought to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in schools and higher education institutions nationwide.
Hospital executives in Coos County would have their pay frozen with no bonuses or increases for 18 months if they lay off 10 or more workers in a department under a bill heard Wednesday by the state Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
MIKE MARLAND: “I am re-launching my Up On The Hill comic that comments on New Hampshire politics and the abomination that is Trump along with his cohorts and his MAGA minions.”
An attempt to regulate AI in the state is a bridge too far for the businesses that provide telecom, internet and similar services.
A bill that would hold that parents have equal rights with equal time was heard by the House Children and Family Law Committee Tuesday along with another bill that would prohibit criminal matters from being adjudicated in family court.
The House Committee on Housing held a public hearing Tuesday for House Bill 1726, which would direct state agencies to identify and dispose of surplus property for the development of affordable housing units.
A proposed change to civil rights law was opposed as potentially weakening the state statute at a public Feb. 12 before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Steven Tendo, the Ugandan pastor and asylum-seeker who was living and working in Vermont but is now being held by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Strafford County Jail, was initially denied medication by the facility, though things are getting better there, according to his attorney Christopher Worth.
Police are investigating the suspicious death of a man in Manchester after responding Monday afternoon to a report of a man with an apparent gunshot wound, according to a news release from Attorney General John Formella.
Brad Asbury’s appeal of his Sununu Youth Services Center, also known as YDC, sex assault conviction is on hold after the New Hampshire Supreme Court gave him the green light to pursue a new trial in Manchester.
Hundreds of people gathered outside the State House on Sunday for a “Not My Presidents Day Rally” hosted by NH 50501, to voice concerns about the Trump Administration’s agenda and actions taken by U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) locally and nationally,
House Majority Leader Jason Osborne (R-Auburn), Deputy Majority Floor Leader Juliet Harvey-Bolia (R-Tilton), and Representative Steven Bogert (R-Laconia) released the following statement, eulogizing State Representative Harry Bean, who passed away in the morning of February 14th, 2026.