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The federal Center for Medicaid Services told the agency to stop using federal Medicaid funds to pay for services for five developmentally disabled adults receiving services at the Judge Rothenberg Educational Center in Massachusetts.
The state wants a Superior Court ruling on education funding to be reconsidered by the judge, and to stay an injunction requiring legislative action to fix the system.
In the months that followed the sudden announcement that Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics would be closing their Merrimack plant, the fight against PFAS pollution continued.
Gov. Chris Sununu has endorsed former U.N. Ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for President of the United States.
Lawyers for former state Sen. Andy Sanborn say it is not true their client used $844,000 in COVID relief loans to buy sports cars and overpay himself rent.
Supporters of the measure, who announced the bipartisan action at a press conference Monday in the Legislative Office Building, said now is the time to join neighboring states such as Maine and Vermont to enshrine abortion as a right, here, rather than leave the state to the whims of one legislature or the next.
A Dec. 6, 2022, email from Senior Attorney General Myles Matteson to Terry Pfaff, COO of the General Court, outlined a credible complaint that former Republican Rep. Troy Merner didn’t live in the Lancaster district he was elected to represent in the House.
Forced by a lawsuit to clean up the fish waste flowing from its aging hatcheries into the open waters of the state, New Hampshire Fish and Game has started the improvement process with one hatchery in New Hampton.
As controversial transgender legislation moves to the next Congressional session, concerns surface for LGBTQ+ rights here at home amid a backlash from people ideologically opposed to gender identity and sexual orientation changes in education and state policy.