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If you watched the House session Thursday, you had to realize the message the Republican majority is sending on public education.
A measure to impose a moratorium on creating any new carbon sequestration forest farms in the state and the formation of a study committee on the impacts to the municipal timber tax revenue is more likely to pass into law after Littleton Republican Sen. David Rochefort got his colleagues to include it in a non-related parental rights bill.
The House made it more difficult to vote by absentee ballot passing several bills that will require more information to vote in absentia Thursday.
The founder of the Free State Project that convinced thousands of like-minded politically active libertarians to move to New Hampshire is running for planning board in Amherst, and left his position at Saint Anselm College for a libertarian think tank.
Northern New Hampshire tourism officials met at Loon on Friday with Congresswoman Annie Kuster, D-NH, to discuss ways that the federal government can help with climate change, utility costs and their relationship with White Mountain National Forest, among other issues.
The people listed here passed away during the previous week and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
The state will have $51.5 million in additional federal funds to support Medicaid recipients who qualified under relaxed guidelines due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
There are currently 33 hospitalized patients being treated for COVID-19. In New Hampshire, since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 375,922 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is warning residents of an increase in the presence of the animal tranquilizer, xylazine, added to opioid street drugs like heroin and fentanyl.
Bills that would prohibit abortion once a heartbeat is detected at about six weeks and a bill that would make it a Class A felony for medical providers to withhold treatment or hasten the death of those “born alive” received strong pushback in the House Judiciary Committee Thursday.
The Statewide Education Property Tax has been the subject of several lawsuits against the state with the latest currently before Rockingham County Superior Court.
The names of two more police officers have been added to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Exculpatory Evidence Schedule’s public list, also known as the Laurie List, though it is unclear if the new public disclosures are entirely intentional.
Shaheen & Gordon, P.A., has settled the first claim under New Hampshire’s YDC Settlement Fund on behalf of a client who was sexually and physically assaulted at YDC in the 1970s, according to a news release issued Wednesday.
New state employees would have a different state retirement program under a bill that had a public hearing Wednesday before the House Executive Departments and Administration Committee.
The Executive Order tasks this Commission to “study, design, and oversee construction of a permanent memorial on State House grounds.”
Elimination of the state’s new fetal life protection act, removal of criminal and civil penalties for doctors who perform abortions after 24 weeks, and a bill that would guarantee the unrestricted right to abortion in the Granite State brought impassioned testimony, equally for and against the measures Wednesday.
Tomorrow night, Governor Chris Sununu will deliver remarks to the Naples Republican Club in Naples, Florida.
The New Hampshire Department of Corrections has refused to identify the inmate who died as the result of the resident-on-resident assault Monday at the state prison in Berlin, but InDepthNH has learned it was James Dale.
Gov. Chris Sununu signed SB 1 into law Tuesday delaying the closure of the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester formerly known as YDC.
Garry Rayno is an award-winning journalist, writing for the New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism (inDepthNH.org) who covers education issues and the New Hampshire Legislature – among many other things.
Gov. Chris Sununu is proposing the largest pay increase in almost 50 years for all state workers, a major change in the formula for school district aid targeting the poorest communities, and no new taxes as part of his pitch for a new, two-year budget.
Attorney Mark Sisti asked the state Supreme Court Tuesday to order the Executive Council to hold a full hearing on Pamela Smart’s commutation petition – and provide her with at least a little hope.
The department said it wasn’t releasing the names of the two inmates because of the investigation.
