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Joined by more than 60 Democratic lawmakers, longtime Penacook Representative and former Speaker of the New Hampshire House Steve Shurtleff has announced his bid to regain the Speaker’s podium for the 2022-2024 session. The vote to nominate a Speaker will take place at the Democratic Caucus meeting on November 17, 2022.
History is, of course, about the past, but we study it to understand the present. In the present, New Hampshire has a Nazi problem.
Did Donald Trump sabotage the Republican party in this election? And did successful gerrymandering in New Hampshire by the Republicans changing districts to favor themselves help Republicans in the state Senate election?
The treasure of data is up on the web and it appears – if you like to mine political tidbits – that all sorts of interesting things happened Tuesday.
Justice Lawrence MacLeod said Wednesday it was not apparent to him that he could have a potential or perceived conflict until after a hearing Friday on the plaintiffs’ request for an injunction to block the state from setting the rate for the Statewide Education Property Tax.
Today, the Republican majority caucus met and nominated Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, to be the next Senate President.
Democrats picked up about 19 more seats in the House of Representatives, despite what they called Republican efforts to gerrymander them out of offices across the state for the next decade.
Tuesday’s elections brought out some pluses, and they identified some priorities going.
The state Department of Health and Human Services issued a Health Alert Wednesday to medical providers, but not to the general public, warning about increased respiratory virus activity and the expectation that COVID-19 levels will increase in the coming weeks.
The five executive councilors won re-election Tuesday and the partisan makeup of the Senate did not change although some of the faces will.