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State politicians used data for the entire Swanton Sector, 295 border miles of which the Granite State comprises just 58, in an attempt to justify a $1.4 million budget to fund a massive expansion of police power and surveillance in northern New Hampshire.
Senate Minority Leader Donna Soucy, D-Manchester, testifies for Senate Bill 309, which would lower the vesting period to be eligible for New Hampshire Retirement System benefits Wednesday before the Senate Executive Departments and Administration Committee.
Three bills seeking to enhance parental rights had public hearings Tuesday as House Republicans seek to sidestep a prohibition on bringing forward similar content to a bill killed last year on parental rights.
A bill defining the biological sex of students in school athletics and one which relates to setting up an appeal process for school libraries, books seen by some parents as harmful to minors, were heard in the Senate Education Committee with testimony overwhelmingly opposed to both measures.
Doug Bates didn’t start out to break news when he retired to Nottingham in 2018, but his substack blog on town politics is becoming a must read by journalists throughout the state.
A lawsuit brought by the Mexican government linking Sturm Ruger and several other gun makers to illegally trafficked guns is going forward after the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston reversed a lower court ruling to dismiss the case.
On Monday, the House Education Committee heard polarized testimony regarding a bill that would put strict gender guidelines in place for school athletics, prohibiting what the legislators classified as “biological males” from participating in female athletics.
Brian Hawkins of NEA-NH speaks to the House Finance Committee Monday in opposition to House Bill 1690, which would transfer its nearly $200 million surplus to the state’s General Fund at the end of the biennium.
The genesis of HB 1629 is the case of Republican Rep. Troy Merner who was allowed to serve and vote last session, although he did not live in the district he represented.