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ProPublica reports: The desperate sobbing of 10 Central American children, separated from their parents one day last week by immigration authorities at the border, makes for excruciating listening. Many of them sound like they’re crying so hard, they can barely breathe. They scream “Mami” and “Papá” over and over again, as if those are the only words they know.
CONCORD – The young Hollis man whose story spurred opposition to holding mentally ill patients who haven’t committed a crime at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison has been transferred back to the state’s psychiatric hospital.
CONCORD – Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald on Tuesday cleared state Senator and Congressional candidate Andy Sanborn of allegations that a Senate intern received a job and cash in exchange for silence about an inappropriate comment Sanborn made to the intern in 2013.
CONCORD – The mood among lawmakers has changed dramatically over the last three years that InDepthNH.org has been investigating the state’s decades-long practice of locking up mentally ill people in the prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit even if they haven’t been convicted of a crime.
Updated: Concord Monitor reporter Lola Duffort reported June 8 that the proposed rule change was voted down by an advisory panel by a vote of 8 to 6 on Friday.
CONCORD – A public hearing Friday, June 1, at the New Hampshire Supreme Court will consider a proposed rule change that would require disguising victims’ names and sealing other identifiers in Supreme Court records.
Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter is looking into what happened to a complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice filed by state Rep. Renny Cushing and others two years ago regarding incarcerating mentally ill people who haven’t committed a crime with convicted criminals at the state prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit.
The PUC’s October 2016 decision prevented Eversource from entering a 20-year agreement with Algonquin Gas that would have expanded an existing natural gas pipeline through the Access Northeast project. The PUC said the proposal violated the state’s electric deregulation statutes, but the court disagreed.
The date was August 5, 1988. Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH) had recently declared bankruptcy, the first electric utility in the U.S. to do that since the Great Depression. The crushing debt and massive cost overruns associated with the Seabrook nuclear power plant had sucked PSNH dry.