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Reaction to Gov. Chris Sununu’s decision to withdraw the nomination of Mindy Atwood to be state librarian was forceful from both sides with some claiming she advances a “woke” agenda and others saying she simply opposes book censorship, which NEA-NH called a mainstream belief.
After temporarily rejecting proposed solid waste siting rules last month, a legislative committee voted 9-1 Thursday to approve them, despite public objections that they don’t go far enough in protecting the public.
A seven-year renewable contract between the state and Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (Dartmouth Health) to operate the state’s new psychiatric hospital for youths at Hampstead Hospital passed the Executive Council on a vote of 4-1 Wednesday.
Four New Hampshire women: one transgender, an immigrant from Venezuela, an Indian American and an African American pledged the state’s four Electoral College votes for Vice President Kamala Harris to be President of the United States and Tim Walz vice president at a ceremony on Tuesday.
Coos County residents in northern New Hampshire have a median income that is about half as much as someone living in Rockingham County in the south and they face higher costs of living than their counterparts near the Massachusetts border, according to some statistics gleaned from recently released U.S. Census Bureau data.
The Commission on the Environmental and Public Health Impacts of PFAS Compounds met Friday to discuss progress on the clean-up around Merrimack’s closed Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics plant at 710 Daniel Webster Highway (Route 3), efforts to investigate possible links to cancer and adverse health impacts in that area and discussed proposed legislation to allow for a longer time for people to file civil claims related to PFAS’ impacts on their lives.
With elective surgeries now being cancelled and delayed in New Hampshire due to a national shortage of intravenous fluids, Gov. Chris Sununu has sent a letter to the Biden Administration demanding more transparency and a plan to get the health care products the state needs calling it a national security issue.
Eversource officials are maintaining that the negative regulatory environment in Connecticut is the sole reason S&P Global Ratings downgraded its credit rating this week from A- to BBB+, and the utility fired back at the state’s Consumer Advocate for his criticism of them.
Readers of InDepthNH.org came out in the pouring rain Wednesday night to talk about the state of news in the North Country and showed their support for the nonprofit publication that will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2025.