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With 15 children waiting in hospital emergency rooms for mental health placement Friday, Gov. Chris Sununu and Health and Human Services Commissioner Lori Weaver went to Hampstead to cut the ribbon on a new facility that will add 71 new beds when complete.
Gov. Chris Sununu was peppered with questions about abortion, the current field of presidential candidates, former President Trump and more on the daytime show The View Thursday, with the segment ending with the audience booing his position on gun control.
Prohibiting sanctuary cities in New Hampshire will not get a recommendation for passage from the House Municipal and County Government Committee.
On a vote of 9-11, the committee voted against passage of Senate Bill 132.
An open and competitive market for the sale of cannabis in the Live Free or Die state was advocated over a “Soviet style monopoly,” run by the liquor commission, legislators were told at a hearing on a new amendment to legalize weed this year.
Public safety is on the line in the state budget right now, with the possibility that the state could lose seasoned police officers and firefighters to the private sector and out-of-stage agencies if the state does not adequately fund the retirement system, members warned.
Joining what is now a list of 55 officers were Hillsboro Police Officer Rory Bohanan, Department of Corrections Officer Lawrence Prather, and Manchester Patrolman Frank J. Dustin.
After Gov. Chris Sununu laid a path forward for legal adult cannabis sales in the state last week, the Senate voted Thursday to create a commission to work on his plan. It now goes to the House for consideration.
Expanding access to the state’s Education Freedom Accounts by income and disability was approved in bills passed by the Senate Thursday.
Associate Attorney General Anne M. Edwards Parker was confirmed as a Superior Court Justice and the state approved a previously tabled contract for software needs at the Executive Council meeting Wednesday.