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The New Hampshire House Twitter feed posted a “public announcement” late Monday afternoon that Tuesday’s Special Committee on Redistricting public input session will be live-streamed on the House of Representatives YouTube channel, although the video option is not mentioned in the House calendar.
MANCHESTER — The U.S. Senate’s filibuster provision needs to end in order to protect voting rights and with it democracy, a group of speakers urged at a press conference Monday.
CONCORD — Punctuated by the chorus of Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Going To Take It,” a grassroots crowd of North Country residents and members of the Sierra Club, Community Action Works, Forest Lake Association, Conservation Law Foundation, and Save Forest Lake staged a protest outside the N.H. Department of Environmental Services’ Hazen Drive Headquarters on Friday afternoon.
Police are investigating the tragedy that occurred on Interstate 89 Friday morning when two brothers were killed and their father was injured in a crash on Friday.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals hearing on Friday focused on whether House Speaker Sherman Packard’s not allowing disabled House members to participate remotely was in fact a functional ouster of the lawmakers who could risk death by attending in-person sessions during the pandemic with Republicans, many of whom refuse to wear face coverings.
While a recount in the election has been requested by Republicans, Democrats were ready to take a victory lap over flipping a Bedford House of Representatives seat, from red to blue, this week.
Among the rules are requirements that employers offer paid time off for workers to get vaccinated and a requirement that all employers with more than 100 employees to make sure their workers are vaccinated or tested weekly, which will apply to about 100 million American workers.
The state’s new compliance overseer at St. Paul’s School is reporting 10 new incidents of sexual assault in his first biannual report.
There are currently 140 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. In New Hampshire since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 110,779 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.