IHoP-NH: Please ‘Don’t Punish Pain’
By PAULA TRACY, IHoP-NH | February 7, 2019
Paula Tracy,InDepthNH.org
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By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org
IHoP-NH is Pauly Tracy’s video storytelling I n the H allways o f P ower where she talks with people who are in favor or opposed to various pieces of legislation.
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A New Hampshire doctor pleaded guilty today to unlawfully distributing a controlled substance.
By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org
CONCORD — Two bills that would change the default budget process for Senate Bill 2 towns and school districts had different fates before the Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs Committee Tuesday.
By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org
CONCORD - The Department of Corrections will go without a secretary and a request to restore $100,000 in the governor's budget was rejected as the Senate Finance Committee gets to work this week on recommendations to the full Senate for a new budget in tough economic times
Senate President Sharon Carson criticized the Governor's office for asking for $100,000 to be placed back into its budget when all state departments are having to take cuts over the next two years, due to lower projected revenue.
By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org
CONCORD - A bill that would have extended the state's timber tax to properties enrolled in carbon sequestration programs has been changed by a Senate committee to a study committee and moratorium.
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined CNN News Central this morning to discuss President Trump’s trip to the Middle East this week and rebuke the President’s reported plans to accept a luxury Qatari jet to use as Air Force One, which raises clear ethical, Constitutional and national security implications. Click HERE to watch Senator Shaheen’s full interview.
Key quotes from Senator Shaheen:
On President Trump’s trip to the Middle East, Shaheen said: “Unfortunately, while I think the economic agreement is a good thing, he seems to be missing the two biggest threats in the Middle East.
CONCORD – Amy Slater of Chester came to the State House recently to tell lawmakers about chronic pain sufferers who feel they are caught in the middle as the government tries to regulate medicine during the opioid crisis. The group Don’t Punish Pain is an organization trying to spread education about the difference between illegal drugs on the streets.