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Three abortion bills, including one that would be the most restrictive in the nation by limiting access after 15 days of pregnancy – were heard before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday.
“We have to stop using products with PFAS,” Karen Ebel said.
A new federal court ruling has granted class action status to part of the ongoing lawsuit against Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, whose Merrimack facility polluted residents’ water supply with toxic PFAS.
Several educators, members of the public, and LGBTQ+ rights advocates testified against SB 341 at the Senate Education Committee meeting on Thursday morning.
In the months that followed the sudden announcement that Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics would be closing their Merrimack plant, the fight against PFAS pollution continued.
Minnesota Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dean Phillips is hopeful he’ll win New Hampshire citizens’ votes as he travels throughout the state ahead of the first-in-the-nation primary on Jan. 23.
As controversial transgender legislation moves to the next Congressional session, concerns surface for LGBTQ+ rights here at home amid a backlash from people ideologically opposed to gender identity and sexual orientation changes in education and state policy.
The bill, which will be heard on the House floor when the 2024 session begins in January prohibits abortion if the fetus is older than 15 days from conception.
Marie Hamel and Pamela Mason met at Oyster River Middle School in Durham. When Pamela moved to Manchester in 1962, Hamel and their friends were crushed at the thought of their close friend moving 39 miles away, a distance that feels much farther for 14-year-old girls.