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Nancy West, Executive Editor at InDepthNH.org, had an engaging conversation with WKXL’s Ken Cail on his popular Cail & Company program. West is receiving the Michael Donoghue Freedom of Information Award from the New England First Amendment Coalition. Nancy will be presented with the award at an invitation-only event on June 1st.
The House Republican Caucus voted Friday to nominate Acting House Speaker Sherm Packard, R-Londonderry, as the nominee to serve as Speaker of the House to succeed the late Speaker Dick Hinch, who died last week from COVID-19.
The state Department of Health and Human Services announced 872 new positive test results for COVID-19 and four new deaths Thursday.
Gov. Chris Sununu provided an update on the rollout of the first COVID-19 vaccines that arrived Monday, on how he is directing the last of the unspent CARES Act relief money, and took questions from the media at his weekly pandemic briefing on Thursday.
The Republican majority blocked attempts to hold lawmakers accountable for hate speech, to prohibit guns in Representatives Hall, to require training to prevent sexual harassment, unconscious bias, and creating a hostile work environment, and to mandate masks be worn at all House sessions, committee hearings or other gathering of members.
Gov. Chris Sununu spoke out against Dawn Johnson, the newly elected Laconia state representative who created a firestorm when she shared an article from a notorious neo-Nazi website.
Newly elected Republican state representative Dawn Johnson apologized for sharing a racist and anti-Semitic meme on social media, but she declined to answer questions Friday about her apparent Neo Nazi web browsing.
The first installment of the $46 million federal Department of Education grant, $10.1 million, was accepted on a 7-3 vote, not surprisingly down party lines.
COVID-19 may be surging in New Hampshire, but it is having a marginal effect on state revenues which continue to perform better than budget writers anticipated.
A member of the Governor’s Office tested positive for COVID-19. The individual has not been in the office since Wednesday of last week, and is feeling fine.
