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The Republican majority blocked attempts to hold lawmakers accountable for hate speech, to prohibit guns in Representatives Hall, to require training to prevent sexual harassment, unconscious bias, and creating a hostile work environment, and to mandate masks be worn at all House sessions, committee hearings or other gathering of members.
State Sen. Thomas Sherman, D-Rye, who is also a physician, said the state is technically correct about releasing private health information, but he believes the number should be released and lawmakers should make their test results public voluntarily.
This morning, Heidi Kukla, RN, a nurse at Elliot Hospital’s intensive care unit, was the first individual to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the State of New Hampshire.
Gov. Chris Sununu spoke out against Dawn Johnson, the newly elected Laconia state representative who created a firestorm when she shared an article from a notorious neo-Nazi website.
House Speaker Pro Tem Kimberly Rice of Hudson said she is tired of being attacked on social media as some kind of horrible person for coming down with COVID-19 and for being a Republican.
Newly elected Republican state representative Dawn Johnson apologized for sharing a racist and anti-Semitic meme on social media, but she declined to answer questions Friday about her apparent Neo Nazi web browsing.
The first installment of the $46 million federal Department of Education grant, $10.1 million, was accepted on a 7-3 vote, not surprisingly down party lines.
Gov. Chris Sununu issued an emergency order Friday authorizing senior nursing students scheduled to graduate on or before May 31, 2021, to practice under certain conditions to help with the staffing shortages faced statewide.
These violations affected more than 115,000 consumers nationwide including 327 New Hampshire consumers. The settlement order includes redress of $565,914 for 327 New Hampshire consumers and administrative penalties to be distributed among participating states and jurisdictions.