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Saying he has made mistakes in his personal life for which he is sorry and has grown, David J. “D.J.” Bettencourt of Salem said he is “humbled by the trust and confidence of the governor” in being nominated the state’s next Commissioner of Insurance at a public hearing Wednesday.
Claiming they may be involved in deceptive trade practices, Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington went after PragerU at Wednesday’s Executive Council meeting calling for an investigation by Attorney General John Formella.
After working for more than two decades on a bipartisan effort to see forensic patients moved out of the state prison into their own therapeutic hospital, state Rep. Peter B. Schmidt, D-Dover came to Concord Thursday to see the groundbreaking of a $42 million New Hampshire Forensic Hospital.
The new owners of the 146,500-acre Connecticut Headwaters Conservation tract in northern New Hampshire said they plan to continue to manage the forest in accordance with the long-term management plan developed by the state and abide by the conservation easement.
U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, is stepping in to help ensure the future of the big “working forest” she helped conserve more than two decades ago.
Survivors of the notorious Youth Development Center in Manchester who were allegedly abused for years by state employees held a rally at the State House Friday urging the state to stop the harmful impacts it continues to inflict on survivors.
In October, the state expects to sit down with the new owners of the 146,500 Connecticut Lakes Headwaters Tract to hear what their future plans are as they relate to logging and carbon credits, the commissioner overseeing an easement said.
Executive Councilors questioned top Health and Human Services officials about a recent report by the Office of Child Advocate criticizing DCYF’s placement of two boys in an out-of-state treatment center and asked how the state can get children back immediately when a problem is found with a vendor.
Mark B. Hall of Dunbarton has been nominated by Gov. Chris Sununu to be the director of the New Hampshire Department of Safety, Division of State Police.