Business & Economy
A Look at Notable Deaths in New Hampshire Last Week
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InDepthNH.org launches new column as part of our plan to host statewide obituaries.
Distant Dome: Willfully and Knowingly Making a Mess of Public Education
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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.
Related: Distant Dome: This Is How Democracy Dies
Carbon Sequestration, Sobriety Check Refusal Punishment Now Part of Parental Rights Bill
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.
House Votes New Requirements for Absentee Voting
The House made it more difficult to vote by absentee ballot passing several bills that will require more information to vote in absentia Thursday.
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Education Freedom Accounts Expanded by House
NH Senate Passes $15.7 Billion Budget Without Support from Democrats
Identical Parental Rights Bills on Way to Governor for Her Expected Signature
Business & Economy
Long-Time Tenant Advocate Elliott Berry Talks Housing
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Elliott Berry, managing attorney of the Manchester NHLA office and Housing Project Director, is known as the architect of many of the state’s laws protecting tenants and for being a prominent anti-poverty advocacy
Fall Fishing Home Waters in New Hampshire
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Location, location, location. When people talk about starting a business, the first piece of advice any good businessman will give you is that where you are located is the most important criteria to consider, especially in a retail business.
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Op-Ed: Constitutional Housekeeping: Eliminate the obsolete position of Register of Probate
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What it doesn’t tell you is that the proposed change eliminates the position of Register of Probate. I strongly support adoption of this amendment.
Business & Economy
PUC Approves Rate Hike for Unitil Customers
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As a result, for a customer using 600 kWh per month, this would be an increase of $94.85 per month or 76.9 percent higher than current bills.
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NHDES Releases 2022 New Hampshire Solid Waste Management Plan
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The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) is pleased to announce the publication of the 2022 New Hampshire Solid Waste Management Plan which is now available on NHDES’ website.
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Time to Rip Off the Bandage: Prosecuting a Former President is Painful but Necessary to Halt Our Authoritarian Slide
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There is nothing quite like the stirring sight of a mature bald eagle flying directly overhead to focus the mind.
Eddie Edwards
DOS Kicks Off Partnership With PSU at Criminal Justice Career Symposium
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DOS Assistant Commissioner Eddie Edwards delivered keynote remarks at the Symposium.
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12 New COVID-19 Deaths; 25 Hospitalized; Outbreaks By Institution Name: Weekly Report
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For the previous week, DHHS announce 12 additional deaths related to COVID-19. (Last week the state reported 6 new COVID-19 deaths.)
Courts & Corrections
Mom’s Boyfriend Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Murder of Elijah Lewis, Age 5
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Elijah Lewis, 5, suffered close to a year of torture, beatings, and starvation at the hands of his mother, Danielle Dauphinais, and her boyfriend Joseph Stapf before his undersized body finally succumbed to one last beating, according to Assistant Attorney General Bethany Durand at Stapf’s plea and sentencing hearing Thursday.
Anthony Poore
N.H. Center for Justice & Equity Launches to be N.H.’s North Star for Advancing Justice & Equity
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The N.H. Center for Justice & Equity will also seek to foster a greater dialogue among Granite Staters, including those in leadership positions, to find actionable solutions to systemic racism that will better reflect New Hampshire’s realities and values.
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Bissonnette Is Loeb School First Amendment Award Honoree, NHPR Also Honored
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Gilles Bissonnette, ACLU-NH’s Legal Director, is this year’s Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications’ First Amendment Award honoree, and will be saluted by the School on Thursday, October 20, 2022.
BLM Seacoast Celebrates A Night of Black Excellence with Third Annual Gala Oct. 1
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Join us as we celebrate a Night of Black Excellence with Black Lives Matter Seacoast for our Third Annual Gala Saturday, Oct. 1 at Rivermill at Dover Landing.
Business & Economy
Ex-IRS Employee Pleads Guilty to Fraudulently Obtaining $62,300 in CARES Act Funds
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In his EIDL application, Charles Clark falsely claimed to have been an independent contractor working in the “Hair & Nail Salon” industry when he was working as a full-time IRS employee
Business & Economy
Net Metering: This time, It Might Be Different
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There is something about spinning your electric meter backwards (metaphorically, if you have a digital meter) that captures the imagination and, in some circles, inspires outrage.
Business & Economy
October Is Festival Time in N.H. and Lots To Do Outdoors
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After a few years of a pandemic social distancing, COVID-19 is not over but lots of relatively safe outdoor events await and expect people to flock back to brew fests, pumpkin fests, agricultural fairs, and a few new events this year.
Business & Economy
2 N.H. Guys Bring Belushi’s Farm Cannabis To Just Over The Border in Maine
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New Hampshire residents Paul Morrissette and Ryan Ward of East Coast Cannabis in Eliot and Lebanon, Maine, have put together a deal with Jim Belushi’s company Belushi’s Farm to have the Blues Brothers brand of cannabis products for sale in their Eliot and Lebanon, Maine stores. Belushi’s Farm products are based in Eagle Point, Oregon.
Andrew Carnegie
Radio Free New Hampshire: The Queen is dead; long live the King
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Britain has people who would like to get rid of their monarchy, but they represent a minority, and even they were respectful of Elizabeth’s death.
Barry Smith
Panelists: Mass. and N.Y. Don’t Criminalize Doctors With Their 24-Week Abortion Bans
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The state’s new abortion ban is not the same as Massachusetts and New York as Gov. Chris Sununu contends because New Hampshire’s law criminalizes doctors for providing such a service after 24 weeks of pregnancy except to save the woman’s life.
Courts & Corrections
Northwood Man Pleads Guilty to Fraudulently Getting $3.5M in Cares Act Funds
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Joshua Leavitt, 40, of Northwood, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court to bank fraud and wire fraud, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.