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Anti-Trump Protests Escalate in Wake of LA Troop Deployment

By ARNIE ALPERT | 4 hours ago

With President Trump militarizing the federal government’s response to dissent against his administration’s policies, organizers say more than 1800 protests will take place nationwide next weekend, including some two dozen in New Hampshire.

Walk for Hope: Solinsky Center for Cancer Care at The Elliot, This Time It Was Personal

That changed dramatically when I was diagnosed with three cancers, and suddenly, the Solinsky Center for Cancer Care became my lifeline.

Distant Dome: Willfully and Knowingly Making a Mess of Public Education

If you watched the House session Thursday, you had to realize the message the Republican majority is sending on public education.

Op-Ed: Who are New Hampshire Republicans: Are they the company they keep?

“Well, we all are going to die” is the tone deaf quip Sen. Ernst had to offer last
week, in response to a constituent who expressed concern over how the
devastating cuts to Medicaid in the GOP budget plan will cause people to perish.

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Gov. Ayotte Signs 19 Bills Into Law; Vetoes One
Carbon Sequestration, Sobriety Check Refusal Punishment Now Part of Parental Rights Bill
House Votes New Requirements for Absentee Voting
Op-Ed

Blowin’ in the Wind: The New Hampshire Advantage – Rhetoric, Not Reality

By Michael Kitch | April 22, 2025

And it makes less sense now when a state with the ninth highest personal income per capita in the country can’t balance its budget without cutting $50 million from its University System, capping school budgets and trimming social services while giving a green light to gambling interests.

Courts & Corrections

NH Supreme Court Passes on Tulloch Sentencing in Dartmouth Professors’ Murders

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | April 21, 2025

Tulloch is behind bars for his role in the 2001 double-murder of Dartmouth professors Half Zantop, 62, and Susanne Zantop, 55.

Business & Economy

NH House Budget Cuts To Prisons ‘A Fundamental Threat,’ Senators Told

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | April 21, 2025

Massive budget cuts for the state’s prisons will not save money and could place the facilities and the state in danger and cause real legal trouble, the commissioner told the Senate Finance Committee Monday.

News

Shaheen Blasts Hegseth For Again Sharing Operation Details on Unsecure App

By News Release | April 21, 2025

“It is beyond belief that anyone in Secretary Hegseth’s position – or in a significantly more junior role, for that matter – would think that sharing sensitive operational details in an unsecured messaging app, and with family members, is remotely acceptable. “

Courts & Corrections

Jeffery Strelzin Tapped To Return To NH Attorney General’s Office

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | April 21, 2025

Jeffery A. Strelzin is expected to return to the New Hampshire Department of Justice where he worked for 22 years after a stint with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Obituary

Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday at age 88

By News Release | April 21, 2025

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta.

Op-Ed

Op-Ed: DOGE’s Abrupt End to Funds for NH Humanities

By Marcia Schmidt Blaine | April 21, 2025

Amid the many fires burning in Washington, one is at the NEH. In very early April, during the night and under the cover of administration-created chaos including new tariff announcements, DOGE cancelled all NEH contracts, including one to New Hampshire Humanities. 

Op-Ed

Does the NH Legislature Represent Your Best Interests?

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | April 19, 2025

The reasons for the current predicament are multiple and varied, but the end result is the majority of lawmakers in the hallowed halls of the State House do not vote in the best interest of the state’s people.

News

People from All Over New Hampshire Protest for ‘No Kings Day’

By ARNIE ALPERT | April 19, 2025

Hundreds of people from all over southwest New Hampshire thronged Keene’s Central Square, most carrying signs denouncing Trump administration actions they see as contrary to democratic principles.

News

Former GOP U.S. Sen. Humphrey Backs Impeachment of President Trump

By News Release | April 19, 2025

At a freedom rally in Derry, NH, today former United States Senator Gordon Humphrey called upon New Hampshire’s U.S. Representatives Pappas and Goodlander to support the impeachment of President Trump.

Education

ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Terminated Student Status of Students in NH, Mass., Maine, R.I., and Puerto Rico

By News Release | April 18, 2025

Four ACLU affiliates and law firm Shaheen & Gordon filed a federal class action lawsuit on Friday seeking to represent over 100 students in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico who had their F-1 student immigration status unlawfully and abruptly terminated with no specified reason as to why.

News

Active with the Activists: Patriots Rally Against Authoritarian Rule

By ARNIE ALPERT | April 18, 2025

Two weeks after the last national day of anti-Trump protests and two hundred and fifty years after American patriots fired the “shot heard round the world” in Lexington, Massachusetts, April 19 will be another day of nationwide demonstrations, many of them with a theme of “No Kings.”

Obituary

Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Plaistow’s Norm Major, Former Sen. Pressly, Former Durham Police Chief Gowen

By Staff Report | April 18, 2025

The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.

Courts & Corrections

YDC Abuse Claims Surge As Money Running Low

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | April 17, 2025

Time is running out for the Sununu Youth Development Center (YDC) survivors of abuse to file claims with the state’s YDC Settlement Fund as the money to pay settlements is running out.

Business & Economy

AG: Victory in Antitrust Case Against Google Over Digital Advertising Monopolies

By News Release | April 17, 2025

Attorney General John M. Formella today announced a significant legal victory after the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that Google violated federal antitrust laws by maintaining illegal monopolies in the digital advertising technology industry.

Education

NH Senate Votes To Oppose Home-Grown Cannabis for Therapeutic Use

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | April 17, 2025

Despite pleas from Democrats that the poor who qualify for therapeutic cannabis should be able to grow up to eight ounces at home, Senate Republicans voted to table House Bill 53 on Thursday.

Business & Economy

Shaheen, Collins, King Visit Portsmouth Naval Shipyard with Navy Secretary John Phelan

By News Release | April 17, 2025

The visit was Secretary Phelan’s first to a public shipyard since his confirmation as Secretary of the Navy by the U.S. Senate.

Courts & Corrections

Marital Conversation Taped in DCYF Ex-Employee Abuse Case Not Privileged: Supreme Court

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | April 16, 2025

Under investigation for child abuse, former Division for Children, Youth and Families employee Deborah Bradley and her husband, Kenneth Bradley, thought they were having a private conversation in their lawyer’s office. 

Business & Economy

Work Requirement Will Not Move the Needle, Committee Told

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | April 16, 2025

Instituting a new work requirement for able-bodied people on the state’s Granite Advantage Medicaid program was opposed by medical providers, advocates for the disabled, mentally ill, greater healthcare access, and substance abuse treatment and recovery Wednesday.

Courts & Corrections

DOC Deserved Hearing Before Personnel Board Ruled Against Officer’s Firing: Supreme Court

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | April 16, 2025

The New Hampshire Supreme Court says that the Department of Corrections should have been allowed a hearing before the Personnel Appeals Board ruled against the termination of a veteran corrections officer.

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