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How can the state Legislature help to save local news and news outlets?
A bipartisan subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee – several of them former reporters – grappled with that question Monday while considering a bill to grant a tax credit to businesses that advertise in local newspapers and broadcast outlets.
After taking full responsibility for not informing the governor of a Trump administration request for information on a potential ICE detention center in Merrimack and offering an apology during an Executive Council emergency meeting Feb. 4, Sarah Stewart has resigned at Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s request.
You’ll find a picture with this column where someone at Market Basket changed their mind at the very last minute. They returned the My-T-Fine Lemon Pudding & Pie Filling right at the check out, the final moments of a shopping trip.
Choosing a fishing partner can be a difficult and a somewhat interesting challenge. It can sometimes be so anxiety producing that an angler would rather fish alone, which is not a bad thing.
Superior Court Judge Daniel E. Will was questioned by members of the Executive Council and the subject of a public hearing Friday on whether he should serve as an Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
Confession: I don’t know how computers work. When mine goes south, I stab random buttons. I turn it on and off. I swear out loud. It usually works again after a while and then I move along. Ditto for my phone, ditto for my car, ditto for the other machinery on which I rely any given day.
Senior Class President Deems Brant said the group joined with students from the University of New Hampshire at Durham Community Church before marching down Main Street. More than 400 young advocates took part in the cause, according to Brant.
For three years, based on her personal experience of an attempted sexual assault by a co-worker at a party, Rep. Ellen Read, D-Newmarket, has been trying to get a bill passed that would require health care providers, law enforcement and other responders to inform sexual assault victims of their right to obtain medical evidence.
Steven Tendo, a Ugandan pastor and asylum-seeker who was detained by federal immigration agents in Vermont on Wednesday, is now being held at the Strafford County Department of Corrections in Dover, NH, according to an online detainee tracker from ICE.
Survivors of childhood sexual abuse want the New Hampshire Supreme Court to revive their lawsuit that claims Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s changes to the YDC Settlement Fund amount to a bait and switch.
House Republicans voted down an attempt to give Merrimack some say over a proposed ICE detention center planned for the community.
Republican Senators refused to increase the base cost of an adequate education across the state for the next biennium, didn’t go along with many Democratic bills but they all agreed that folks should be able to get booze delivered.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
House Bill 1793 would prohibit colleges, universities and other institutes of higher learning from imposing restrictions on firearms and other weapons if they accept state funding.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte focused her State of the State address on public safety and affordability Thursday and said that together we can protect what sets the state apart.
Exactly what state officials knew of a possible federal ICE detention facility in New Hampshire – and when they knew it – were the subjects of an emergency meeting Wednesday by the state’s Executive Council.
In addition to leaving the public and inspection stations now scrambling to understand what this all means, Commissioner Scott said the potential exists not only to pay the federal government $1.6 million a month for violation of the act, but the state could lose highway funds after 18 months of noncompliance.
Returning the Statewide Education Property Tax to a real statewide property tax would raise $1.4 billion for public education, a House committee was told Wednesday.
After a year of New Hampshire Supreme Court scandals, it’s time to rein in judges, according to Rep. Susan DeRoy (R-New Durham.)
House Bill 1811 would repeal statutory immunization requirements for children, and House Bill 1022 focuses on religious exemptions from vaccine requirements.
Saying he was “sidelined by the Republican Party,” state Representative David Nagel of Gilmanton announced Wednesday he is leaving them and joining the Democratic party in the New Hampshire State House.
Since last week’s release by the U.S. Department of Justice of more files connected to Jeffrey Epstein and his sex trafficking operation, the powerful men revealed to be in his orbit are being forced to answer questions. Dean Kamen is not accused of breaking any laws in his relationship with Epstein.
The Senate Judiciary Committee discussed Senate Bill 626, on Tuesday which would restrict right-to-know requests to those domiciled or maintaining a permanent residence in New Hampshire, and require proof of domicile or residency to file the requests.
Pig scrambles could be outlawed in the Granite State under a bill that was heard on Tuesday.