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Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021, urged New Hampshire voters to “speak for us all” in the first-in-the-nation primary Jan. 23 and tell the world that we “do not bend, we do not break and we do not yield in defense of our freedom.”
Democracy could easily have died on Jan. 6 three years ago along with members of Congress, said U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster, D-NH, who described her harrowing experience escaping the House gallery less than a minute before a mob breached the doors separating them.
The issue of abortion is square in the face of lawmakers in Concord now as Democrats introduced a suite of bills and a Constitutional Amendment Thursday that would ask voters to enshrine reproductive freedom in the New Hampshire Constitution.
State Senators passed a bail reform bill on a voice vote Wednesday less than two hours after the Republican majority outlined their agenda for the coming year which focuses on keeping the state without a sales or income tax.
Torrential rain that fell across the state Monday – in some cases more than four inches in a few hours – caused road damage but none worse than the lengthy detour now forced around Crawford Notch which is cut off as an East-West road for at least a week.
Third Circuit Court Judge Melissa Beth Countway of Alton has been confirmed by the Executive Council to be an Associate Supreme Court Justice, replacing Gary Hicks who retired due to age limitations in November.
Only hours after they rescued five people from their roofs in Conway as the rising waters of the Saco River threatened their lives, members of the New Hampshire Army National Guard were honored by the state’s Fish and Game Commission Tuesday.
Gov. Chris Sununu has endorsed former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for President of the United States.
Twenty-five conservation projects from Westmoreland to Dover, and Plainfield to Ossipee were approved for grants from the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program.