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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 primaries are coming up: a good time for our Republican friends to repudiate the big lie once and for all. Democrats have their own favorite lies, of course, but right now the sins of the donkey seem small in comparison. Put simply, Democrats aren’t burning down government buildings these days, nor are they striving to overturn valid election results.
It is time for a little honesty about the state’s new Education Freedom Account program and who is benefitting from the use of the state’s tax dollars.
MANCHESTER – Less than a month after police were called to the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester for a report of a “riot,” police were called for more trouble three times so far Friday and today to the locked juvenile facility, although officials won’t say what happened.
While it would be in poor taste to muse joyfully on the passing of Queen Elizabeth, I do muse joyfully on the possibility that I am in her will.
It will, when completed along with a downtown infrastructure upgrade, take heat generated by a bio energy company in town and pipe it into and under downtown sidewalks.
Kayla Montgomery, the stepmother of 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery, had been released on bail after being charged with perjury, receiving stolen goods and welfare fraud, but prosecutors suspected she wasn’t adhering to bail conditions.
The state moved closer to the construction of a new behavioral health hospital in south-central New Hampshire when the legislative Fiscal Committee voted unanimously Friday to use $15 million in federal funds in a deal with SolutionHealth, a partnership of the Elliot and Southern New Hampshire hospitals.
Data breaches at several New Hampshire medical facilities involving potentially 150,000 people were reported to the United States Department of Health and Human Services since the start of 2021.
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The state does not want a former guard at the Sununu Youth Services Center, also called YDC in Manchester, being prosecuted for allegedly raping dozens of children to testify in the civil lawsuit representing victims, claiming he is too frail to talk.
DHHS: Updated COVID-19 Omicron booster vaccines are now available and recommended for everybody 12 years of age or older who has, at a minimum, completed a COVID-19 primary vaccine series.
It wasn’t an effort by Free Staters. It was a proposal by one resident, who has an extensive record of writing about the need to simultaneously improve the quality and reduce the cost of education in New Hampshire.
Checking out meteorological instruments and climbing ladders to the top of the observation deck at the very summit of the highest peak in the Northeast, Gov. Chris Sununu and the state’s five-member Executive Council got a chance to tour the Mount Washington Observatory this week.
For voters in Executive Council District 2, abortion rights are on the ballot both times because the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade means state politicians now control the future of reproductive rights.
The boyfriend of Elijah Lewis’ mother has signed a notice to plead guilty in connection with the 5-year-old Merrimack boy’s murder, according to court documents.
“Crumbled” shows that Granite Staters cannot trust Chris Sununu to protect their freedoms after he crumbled to political pressure and signed New Hampshire’s first modern abortion ban without any exceptions for rape, incest, or fatal fetal anomalies.
In competition for about 150 years on either side of Mount Washington, officials for two iconic tourism operations were featured speakers before the Governor and Executive Council meeting on Wednesday at The Glen House, a 2018-construction hotel which is a sister operation to the Mount Washington Auto Road.
High above the clouds at 6,288 feet, the Governor and Executive Council met for the first meeting in state history atop Mount Washington Wednesday and voted to approve a number of contracts.
For August state levies produced $147.8 million in revenues including $1 million in recoveries from pandemic expenses with lottery earnings, and business and hospitality taxes producing significantly more than budget writers estimated.
The Free Staters on the Belknap Delegation subverted others with conservative leanings on the all-GOP delegation to follow their lead in slashing the County nursing home budget and stacking the Gunstock Area Commission with fellow travelers sympathetic to their agenda, i.e., either leasing or privatizing the ski area.
