Former fertility specialist Dr. Misty Blanchette Porter is now owed $1.125 million after a jury found that Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center broke Vermont’s disability discrimination law when it fired her in 2017.
Op-Ed: Climate accountability is a public safety priority
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Public safety and corporate accountability must be at the top of the list for our next attorney general.
Education
No Opposition To Bill Requiring Cell Phone Limit Policies in Schools
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Bills that would allow parents to transfer their children to other schools within the same district, one that would study creating a county school district and one requiring public schools to adopt policies to limit the use of cell phones by students in classrooms across the state were all heard Monday in the House without opposition.
Business & Economy
Seabrook Starbucks Workers Vote Union
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Workers at the Starbucks store at the Seabrook Crossing plaza voted Thursday to join Workers United, a union that is representing workers at more than 550 Starbucks stores, including three others in New Hampshire.
Business & Economy
Shaheen Condemns Firing of Entire HHS Staff Responsible for Energy Assistance Program
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During the coldest months of the year, LIHEAP is instrumental in helping Americans afford to heat their homes or replace a broken furnace in an emergency.
Business & Economy
Distant Dome: What Has Become of Laissez Faire New Hampshire?
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Before the turn of the Century and even a little into this one New Hampshire’s motto was the same as it is today, Live Free or Die, but a slight tweak would better describe Granite Staters’ prevailing attitude as Live and Let Live.
Op-Ed
Power to the People: Credibility Crisis at the Public Utilities Commission
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The procedural order issued on March 26 by (and here’s the tipoff that news is involved) just one of the three members of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). Ninety-nine point nine times out of 100, orders of the PUC are signed by all three commissioners.
Courts & Corrections
House Panel Pushes ‘Unsafe’ Department of Corrections Budget Cuts
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Lost amid the flurry of proposed budget cuts coming out of Concord is a proposal to slash the Department of Corrections funding to levels considered unsafe by department administration.
Obituary
Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Former Laconia Mayor Karl Reitz
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The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
Approval of Trump’s Handling of Economy Down in NH; Most Support Trans Sports Policy
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Support for President Trump’s handling of the economy has fallen since February. A majority disapprove of Trump’s use of tariffs and most see Canada and Mexico, two targets of Trump’s tariffs, as allies or friends of the United States.