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Members of the commission charged with developing recommendations on handling police misconduct complaints praised the hard work that the director of Police Standards and Training had put into a draft legislative proposal, but some objected to the dominance by law enforcement personnel in deciding on the outcomes.
Amidst an outpouring of anti-vax protesters, at the Executive Council meeting on Wednesday Gov. Chris Sununu quietly nominated two new circuit court justices and is requesting new terms and new faces for a number of key state commissions.
The Executive Council voted to table a contract request Wednesday to market and sell the former Laconia State School in Laconia.
CONCORD — The independence of a new state entity to review complaints of officer misconduct has been slowly diminished as the commission to develop legislative recommendations works toward the completion of its report, due at the end of the month.
Four state Representatives, two of whom are physicians with one a recent convert to the Democratic party, urged the Joint Fiscal Committee and Executive Council on Tuesday to accept $27 million in federal funds to help increase COVID-19 vaccinations in New Hampshire.
Local Abenaki leaders and other community members spoke at Warner’s first official observance of Indigenous People’s Day, held Monday at the Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum.
The state Department of Health and Human Services says 7 percent of all COVID-19 deaths since late January have been people who were fully vaccinated.
Rep. Nicole Klein Knight, D-Manchester, in a posting on Twitter Friday morning, said she was infected and in turn has infected her family and she blames House Speaker Sherman Packard for allowing sick members to participate without masks.
Tabled federal contracts that would build out the state’s vaccine program do not bind the state’s powers to federal mandates, Attorney General John M. Formella told Gov. Chris Sununu in a memo on Thursday.