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The state’s Executive Council has scheduled public hearings in the coming weeks for a number of nominations made by Gov. Chris Sununu, including that of his longtime political confidant, David J. “D.J.” Bettencourt of Salem to be Commissioner of the state Department of Insurance.
A new Emerson College Polling survey of New Hampshire voters finds President Joe Biden with a 43% job approval, a five-point increase from the March Emerson poll.
The proposal, which the plaintiffs sent the state a week ago, but has not received a response, would set a timeline to change two aspects of the state’s administration of the tax they claim make it unconstitutional because taxpayers are assessed at different effective rates and not proportional rates as required by the state constitution.
Former President Donald Trump rallied his New Hampshire base Tuesday afternoon with denouncements of the Biden administration and the four cases he is currently facing a week after the Department of Justice announced he would be indicted on charges involving the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 uprising at the Capitol.
It was standing room only at the Pittsburg Fire Station as more than 80 members of the public attended a meeting with the Pittsburg selectboard Tuesday to learn about how forest carbon credits are replacing logging nationally and within their backyard in the Northern Forest.
The non-profit PragerU Kids program would help fulfill a state requirement students take financial literacy as a graduation requirement and would be available under the Department of Education’s Learn Everywhere Program.
Former President Donald Trump will deliver remarks Tuesday at Windham High School, his third visit to New Hampshire this year.
This week, Gov. Chris Sununu signed 54 bills into law with one criticized and two immediately praised by Democrats.
In inking House Bill 119 into law at Bonnie Brae Farm on Route 3, he gave farmers the option of slaughtering their own animals at the farm rather than having to take them to a licensed slaughterhouse for processing.