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From newborn health checks to providing care for the elderly at the Glencliff Home, to a potential loss of the state’s 50-year old family planning program, impacts of a House proposed budget got a Senate Finance hearing Monday.
Nearly 300 people gathered at the Grappone Conference Center here Friday for the start of the 2025 NH Liberty Forum. The annual two-day event, which concludes Saturday, is associated with the Free State Project (FSP), a movement that began 24 years ago.
Higher education leaders went to the Senate Finance Committee Friday to request budget funding be restored to the governor’s recommended level for the next two years and that they reject the 30 percent cut by the House calling it “unsustainable.”
The letter to RFK Jr. follows Shaheen’s visit to Community Action Partnership Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties’ (CAPHR) Opportunity Center in Manchester where she highlighted the importance of Head Start to Granite State working families.
Maggie Goodlander, New Hampshire’s newly elected Democratic Congresswoman for District 2 was in the North Country Thursday taking notes as she met and heard from the agriculture and forestry community about the federal impacts they face for their small businesses.
What do you call a former member of Congress once accused of illegal pro-Russian activity, who denies the 2020 presidential election results, and who took part in storming a police barrier during the Jan. 6 riots?
Maunsell claims that she was raped dozens of times by Youth Development Services Unit staffer Victor Malavet starting in 2001 when she was 15.
Upwards of 150 people rallied outside the State House Thursday to support continued funding of Medicaid with no rate cuts, no premiums, and no work requirements.
The fate of the state’s Commission for Human Rights is up in the air, with the House-passed budget eliminating all funding, Gov. Kelly Ayotte working to retain and reform it – and the Senate’s position unclear.