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New Hampshire’s considerable workforce housing crisis eased a little on Thursday when federal and local leaders came to celebrate the completion of a new, 48-unit multifamily housing development for the Concord area, just off Interstate 393.
With estimates that the state will need close to 90,000 new affordable housing units by 2040 to address the state’s needs and it is already 23,000 units behind, housing is a big issue in the upcoming governor’s race.
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President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., came to New Hampshire Tuesday to tout “consequential progress” in taking on what Sanders called “the greed of the pharmaceutical industry” through the Inflation Reduction Act.
It’s been more than two years since two alleged sexual assault victims brought a civil lawsuit against Grafton County and former Corrections Officer Max Fournier, but the trial in that case is still years away at best.
The New Hampshire Association of Counties is expressing concerns about a proposed 10-year agreement with the state that would significantly reduce the amount of timber cut from the 145,000-acre Connecticut Lakes Headwaters tract.
General Election absentee ballots returned by mail must be received by the voter’s local clerk by 5 p.m. on election day.
This year’s “Granny” winners were presented with an engraved granite block award.
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