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As New Hampshire’s State Board of Education reviews the 306 Administrative Rules, which set the minimum standards for public school approval, public education advocates have taken to spreading the word about public listening sessions in the absence of any publicly available information from the Department of Education and the State Board of Education.
U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter with a group of Senators to the Biden administration formally requesting that they offer all available support for humanitarian efforts in Sudan, as violence between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continues for a third week.
These pilots are the latest that have been conditionally approved by the Ballot Law Commission as it moves toward approving one or more ballot-counting devices to replace New Hampshire’s aging AccuVote machines.
In a strong show of bipartisan unity, the House voted 356-6 to support New Hampshire’s role of holding the first-in-the-nation, as it is under attack by the Democratic National Committee.
Gov. Chris Sununu is “enthusiastically” supporting the Twin States Clean Energy Link, a proposed 1,200-megawatt power transmission project which would run hydropower through Vermont and New Hampshire underground in the North Country, to add to the region’s power grid.
Associate Attorney General Anne M. Edwards Parker said she has hoped to be a judge since becoming a lawyer in the 1980s and was inspired to pursue the law to help the people of New Hampshire as a way of giving back.
A bill declaring May 3 Old Man of the Mountain Day in New Hampshire was signed by Gov. Chris Sununu in a ceremony that included original music, the unveiling of a crystal etching, and a prayer.
potential big win for the state’s electric ratepayers that would enable utilities to enter into long-term power agreements for new and likely mostly renewable projects passed by a unanimous vote by the House Science, Technology and Energy Committee to the House on Monday.
