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OPINION: Governor Sununu signed HB 1319, a transgender rights bill that was passed with unanimous support by New Hampshire Democrats while a majority of New Hampshire Republicans voted to defeat it.
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services announces the resignation of Brady Serafin, Director of Operations of the Sununu Youth Services Center and Chief of the Bureau of Family, Community, and Program Supports in the Division for Children, Youth and Families.
OPINION: Our state made a difference for local residents.
CONCORD – Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald on Tuesday cleared state Senator and Congressional candidate Andy Sanborn of allegations that a Senate intern received a job and cash in exchange for silence about an inappropriate comment Sanborn made to the intern in 2013.
Another glimpse into the mind of Zubaydah now emerges from a series of drawings he made during his years in U.S. custody. They are by turns haunted and bizarre, ranging in subject matter from graphic depictions of his abuse to creatures drawn from some indistinct mythology.
As explained in the brief, HB 1264 is not ripe for judicial review because courts can only adequately review constitutional questions concerning voting laws with the benefit of a full factual record developed through adversarial litigation.
Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter is looking into what happened to a complaint to the U.S. Department of Justice filed by state Rep. Renny Cushing and others two years ago regarding incarcerating mentally ill people who haven’t committed a crime with convicted criminals at the state prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit.
Center for Public Integrity: The United States has spent a lot of money on counterterrorism since the 9/11 attacks. But nobody has been keeping good track of just how much, until now. The task still consumes a sixth of America’s annual discretionary spending.
You could ask how does a state budget go $100 million out of whack in a half-a-dozen months.
Lawmakers will grapple with that question this week in what are expected to be the final sessions of the 2017-18 legislature bar an adverse Supreme Court ruling on voting rights after lawmakers go home at the end of the week.