Shaheen Presses Hegseth on How Pentagon Will use $400M Congress Allotted for Ukraine

In today’s hearing examining the President’s budget request for the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a top member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services and Appropriations Committees, grilled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and senior defense officials for details about how the Pentagon plans to use $400 million that Congress has allotted for Ukraine.

Vehicle Inspection Litigation Keeps Rolling Along

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Thursday granted the state’s motion to stay the New Hampshire District Court’s Jan. 27 preliminary injunction, which directed the Department of Safety and the Department of Environmental Services to take actions to reinstate the New Hampshire vehicle inspection program. 

Writing on the Fly: Fly Fishing 101

When people know that you are a fly fisher you will inevitably get the call, it used to be a call but now it is a text. “I want to learn to fly fish and you were the first person I thought of calling.”

Education Bills with Non-Germane Amendments Head To Full House

Two education related bills advanced with non-germane amendments in the House Education Funding Committee, Tuesday with unanimous support for Senate Bill 491 related to minimum education standards language and another, Senate Bill 531 which was opposed in part by Democrats that looks at developing data to understand the level of school meals debt in addition to having the state legislature support the development of a community college curriculum in Coos County for cosmetology.