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Anti-Trump Protests Escalate in Wake of LA Troop Deployment

By ARNIE ALPERT | 11 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
Business & Economy

Two-Year State Budget Action Now Moves To NH Senate

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | April 11, 2025

The state budget process is moving from the House to the Senate and the public will have an opportunity to weigh in with their concerns and priorities likely the first week of May.

Health & Mental Health

DHHS Adds Additional Testing After Possible Exposure To Person with TB in Manchester

By News Release | April 11, 2025

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Manchester Health Department (MHD) are announcing additional testing clinics for people who might have been exposed to a person with tuberculosis (TB) who was at the Families in Transition (FIT) Adult Shelter and the 1269 Café in Manchester, NH while infectious.

Obituary

Notable New Hampshire Deaths: 44-Year State Rep. Laura Pantelakos of Portsmouth

By Staff Report | April 11, 2025

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

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NH House Votes To Pass Budget Democrats Oppose, But It’s Not Over

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | April 10, 2025

Despite the efforts of Democrats to offer a “better budget alternative,” the majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives approved a $15.4 billion two-year budget that cuts many services and hikes fees on Thursday.

Business & Economy

NH House Says ‘No’ to Sanctuary Cities

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | April 10, 2025

The House wants to prohibit sanctuary cities or towns in the state to shelter undocumented immigrants, but Democrats argued now is not the time with the Trump administration deporting immigrants without due process or any evidence they committed a crime.

Courts & Corrections

Ex-Restaurant Manager Pleads Guilty to Theft Charges

By News Release | April 10, 2025

Attorney General John M. Formella announces that James Peretti, the former general manager of The Foundry Restaurant (Foundry), located in Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in Hillsborough Superior Court Northern District today to two felony theft charges stemming from his tenure at the Foundry.

Courts & Corrections

Parents Testify on School Libraries ‘Anti-Obscenity’ Bill

By Katharine Webster | April 10, 2025

In sometimes emotional testimony, parents of school children spoke Thursday at a Senate Education Committee hearing for and against House Bill 324, which would ban “obscene,” “harmful” and “age-inappropriate” materials from schools and school libraries.

Arts and Entertainment

NH House Votes to Expand Education Freedom Accounts Program

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | April 10, 2025

By a slim margin, the House Thursday approved expanding the Education Freedom Account program to every child in the state in the second year of the next biennium.

Business & Economy

Parents’ Questions Would Require ‘Honest and Complete’ Answers Under SB 96

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | April 9, 2025

A bill mandating teachers answer parents’ questions about their child “completely and honestly” came under fire at a public hearing Wednesday. 

Business & Economy

Foreign Dartmouth Student Visa Reinstated

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | April 9, 2025

The visa of foreign-born Dartmouth College grad student Xiaotian Liu is back in place after a federal judge put a temporary halt on the purge being acted out by President Donald Trump’s administration.

Business & Economy

Quick Fix Won’t Overturn Injunction Blocking Divisive Concepts Law, Panel Told

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | April 9, 2025

A bill to add a teacher’s mental state to the state divisive concepts law is not enough to overturn the federal court’s injunction, a House committee was told Wednesday.

Business & Economy

Ayotte Weighs in On Budget, Casella, and Tariffs

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | April 9, 2025

Gov. Kelly Ayotte laid out her differences with the House GOP budget and priorities, weighed in on Trump’s tariffs and their impact on the state and said she was not surprised that former Gov. Chris Sununu has decided against a run for the U.S. Senate.

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Dem House Leaders Promise ‘Better Budget Amendment’ Ahead of Thursday’s Vote

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | April 9, 2025

A large gathering of Democrats came to the State House lawn Wednesday, the day before the House of Representatives is expected to vote on a Republican-led, two-year budget for the state with leaders saying they will fight for a “Better Budget” on Thursday.

Business & Economy

Child Welfare Monitoring Contract Approved By Council in 3-2 Vote

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | April 9, 2025

New Hampshire will have a new and updated child welfare information system after the Executive Council voted 3-2 to support a formerly tabled $18.5 million contract Wednesday.

Business & Economy

Op-Ed: Self-Inflicted Budget Crisis: NH Tax Policy Choices Undermine NH’s Future

By TODD SELIG | April 9, 2025

Chief among them: a decade of business tax cuts that have drained state revenues without delivering the promised economic boom.

Op-Ed: Climate accountability is a public safety priority

By Roger Stephenson | April 9, 2025

Public safety and corporate accountability must be at the top of the list for our next attorney general.

Business & Economy

Concerns Raised about NH House Budget Plan

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | April 8, 2025

The Republican members of the House Finance Committee presented their proposed fiscal 2026-2027 operating budget to their colleagues Tuesday prior to the vote on the two-bill budget package Thursday.

Business & Economy

Planned Parenthood To Close St. Johnsbury Clinic, Impacting NH North Country Residents

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | April 8, 2025

Planned Parenthood of Northern New England announced Tuesday it will close its St. Johnsbury, Vermont, health center on June 3, affecting Northern New Hampshire residents particularly in the Littleton area.

Arts and Entertainment

Hassan Asks How Far Trump Will Go To Achieve Tariff Goal in Senate Grilling of Trade Rep.

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | April 8, 2025

U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-NH, was among members of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee who pressed a top Trump Administration official on just how far it will go to achieve the goals from tariffs which are right now tearing apart retirement savings on Tuesday.

Business & Economy

NH Vehicle Inspections Opposed at Continued Public Hearing in Senate Committee

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | April 8, 2025

Whether the state should do away with its vehicle inspections entirely or make it required every two years is now being hotly debated in the Senate where the second of two long public hearings on House Bill 649 continued Tuesday before the Senate Commerce Committee.

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