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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.
“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.
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 New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission voted unanimously to dismiss a petition to disqualify from election 14 Republican candidates who supported the failed bill seeking a constitutional amendment on the state seceding from the union or did not oppose efforts to kill it.
The Attorney General’s Office was asked to look into the merits of disqualifying House candidates who supported a constitutional amendment seeking to have New Hampshire secede from the United States, but as the NH Ballot Law Commission prepares to take up the matter at 1 p.m. on Aug. 24, some of those facing disqualification say the answer is clear.
My job in all of this is to cram a pop-tart into him and make some cutting remark when he fails to wear matching socks.
Vail Resorts has announced that this coming winter it will limit ticket sales at its 40 ski resorts across North America, including Mount Sunapee.
The lawsuit filed by seven disabled Democratic House members to require the House Speaker to provide a remote option for legislators with medical conditions that make them especially vulnerable to COVID-19 may be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the first moments of The Shawshank Redemption, the 1994 film based on the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King, the main character, Andy Dufresne, played by Tim Robbins, is transported to a gruesome-looking prison called Shawshank. That stern guard was my classmate from high school, Dan Dowds.
The future of the state’s 60-acre Mount Washington State Park is up for public comment right now through the end of this month.
Associate Attorney General Anne Edwards for the State Attorney General’s Office will present. BERLIN, NH – The Special Committee on Voter Confidence will host its next public meeting at the Berlin City Hall on Tuesday, August 23. The meeting will kick off with a presentation by Associate Attorney General Anne Edwards for the State Attorney General’s Office, followed by a public comment period. Members of the media and public are encouraged to attend. WHEN:
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 1:00 P.M. ET
WHERE:
Berlin City Hall Auditorium
168 Main St.
The monitors are Eugene van Loan appointed to Windham, Eric Forcier appointed to Bedford, and Bonnie Winnona MacKinnon appointed for Laconia Ward 6.
The first batch was collected in the municipality of Atkinson on August 2, 2022. The second batch was collected in the municipality of Hampstead on August 4, 2022.
Citizens of all 10 towns in Belknap County and the six wards in Laconia have a new voter’s guide listed for the GOP Primary Sept. 13 posted by a new organization looking to remove extremists from office who they contend led to the crisis at Gunstock.
The New Hampshire Ballot Law Commission has been asked to consider disqualifying candidates who supported or did not oppose a bill, CACR32, that would have placed a constitutional amendment before the voters to decide whether New Hampshire should secede from the United States.
The problem with taxes is most people do not know how they work.
When I asked my daughter what she would write in my obituary, she responded, “She liked hard boiled eggs, yogurt, and oatmeal.”
“Work as learning” is the name of a new initiative designed to help high school students earn money and prepare for future careers
The upcoming state primary and general elections are expected to see heightened scrutiny in the wake of problems in ballot counting discovered in three communities.
There are currently 19 hospitalized patients being treated for COVID-19. In New Hampshire, since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 342,243 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.
InDepthNH.org is the only statewide online news outlet that brings readers affordable obituaries – just a $99 flat rate regardless of length (includes one photo).
Proposals for the purchase and redevelopment of the former Laconia State School are coming into the state. Gov. Chris Sununu and the five-member Executive Council expect they will soon be able to consider several offers before deciding which to select.
“However, there was an incident involving youths not complying with their evening responsibilities.”
