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With the number of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths on the rise, some lawmakers question the safety of continuing tours for elementary school children at the State House where there is no mask or vaccination mandate and no requirement to report the number of legislators and staffers who work there who have been infected.
With 29 days left before they must vote on a series of redistricting bills, a House Special Committee on Redistricting met at the Legislative Office Building Wednesday to discuss their progress and look over some of the first drafts of maps that the committee will consider.
The lawyer for State Trooper Samuel Provenza asked the New Hampshire Supreme Court on Wednesday to keep hidden from the public an investigation into his alleged misconduct while he was working as a Canaan police officer.
Fiscal committee member Sen. Lou D’Allesandro, D-Manchester, called the decision to withdraw the items unbelievable.
Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington and other Democratic leaders called on Gov. Chris Sununu to demand the resignation of Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut for speaking Sunday “at an event of fringe right-wing extremists encouraging people to forgo public health guidance in our schools.
Lucy K. Wyman drove from Lancaster Tuesday to tell Gov. Chris Sununu that some people think he’s talking out of both sides of his mouth when he says he is pro-choice yet signed a budget that includes new restrictions on abortions and was unsuccessful in convincing Executive Council Republicans to fund some family planning clinics.
There are currently 178 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. In New Hampshire, since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 129,663 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.
Signers of the letter include the Disability Rights Center – N.H, NAMI New Hampshire (the National Alliance on Mental Illness), New Futures, N.H. Legal Assistance, the N.H. Medical Society, the N.H. Public Health Association, and other groups representing primary, healthy aging and disability care, substance use and mental health treatment, and other providers and patients across the Granite State.
The committee established to study whether virtual meetings should be authorized is recommending that remote participation by board members should be allowed, with the question of public access to those meetings being left to local boards, according to a draft report that the panel will be taking up on Oct. 20.