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Planned Parenthood of Northern New England announced Tuesday it will close its St. Johnsbury, Vermont, health center on June 3, affecting Northern New Hampshire residents particularly in the Littleton area.
U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-NH, was among members of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee who pressed a top Trump Administration official on just how far it will go to achieve the goals from tariffs which are right now tearing apart retirement savings on Tuesday.
Whether the state should do away with its vehicle inspections entirely or make it required every two years is now being hotly debated in the Senate where the second of two long public hearings on House Bill 649 continued Tuesday before the Senate Commerce Committee.
Former Republican Gov. Chris Sununu of Newfields said he is not going to run for U.S. Senate. He said it is not right for him and his family to go to Washington.
U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem yesterday seeking answers following reports that Ukrainians on humanitarian parole in the United States had received threatening emails from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that their humanitarian parole status had been terminated and that they had seven days to depart the country.
Bills that would allow parents to transfer their children to other schools within the same district, one that would study creating a county school district and one requiring public schools to adopt policies to limit the use of cell phones by students in classrooms across the state were all heard Monday in the House without opposition.
The state’s entire congressional delegation – four Democrats – are joining Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte in trying to restore $80 million in federal mental health and substance abuse treatment funds which were expected in the state, now leading to layoffs.
The rally was one of over a thousand such protests nation-wide and overseas which drew an estimated 3.5 million to the streets. Video and editing by Bob LaPree
The largest crowd yet of anti-Trump protesters met up at the State House Saturday for a rally coordinated with about a thousand other rallies nationwide, including fifteen others in New Hampshire from Colebrook to Plaistow and Portsmouth to Keene.