Obituary
Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday at age 88
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Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta.
Free Staters Meet in Concord for Annual Confab
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Nearly 300 people gathered at the Grappone Conference Center here Friday for the start of the 2025 NH Liberty Forum. The annual two-day event, which concludes Saturday, is associated with the Free State Project (FSP), a movement that began 24 years ago.
USNH, Cultural Resources and Justice Department Seek Fund Restoration
Higher education leaders went to the Senate Finance Committee Friday to request budget funding be restored to the governor’s recommended level for the next two years and that they reject the 30 percent cut by the House calling it “unsustainable.”
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Shaheen Blasts Trump Attacks on Head Start, Demands RFK Jr. Immediately Release Funding, Reverse Firings
The letter to RFK Jr. follows Shaheen’s visit to Community Action Partnership Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties’ (CAPHR) Opportunity Center in Manchester where she highlighted the importance of Head Start to Granite State working families.
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Foresters, Farmers Talk Trade and Tariff Impacts With U.S. Rep. Goodlander in Groveton
Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Former Somersworth Mayor Meserve
Controversial Ex-Congressman Featured at Free State Conference in Concord
Op-Ed
Op-Ed: DOGE’s Abrupt End to Funds for NH Humanities
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Amid the many fires burning in Washington, one is at the NEH. In very early April, during the night and under the cover of administration-created chaos including new tariff announcements, DOGE cancelled all NEH contracts, including one to New Hampshire Humanities.
Op-Ed
Does the NH Legislature Represent Your Best Interests?
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The reasons for the current predicament are multiple and varied, but the end result is the majority of lawmakers in the hallowed halls of the State House do not vote in the best interest of the state’s people.
News
People from All Over New Hampshire Protest for ‘No Kings Day’
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Hundreds of people from all over southwest New Hampshire thronged Keene’s Central Square, most carrying signs denouncing Trump administration actions they see as contrary to democratic principles.
News
Former GOP U.S. Sen. Humphrey Backs Impeachment of President Trump
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At a freedom rally in Derry, NH, today former United States Senator Gordon Humphrey called upon New Hampshire’s U.S. Representatives Pappas and Goodlander to support the impeachment of President Trump.
Education
ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Terminated Student Status of Students in NH, Mass., Maine, R.I., and Puerto Rico
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Four ACLU affiliates and law firm Shaheen & Gordon filed a federal class action lawsuit on Friday seeking to represent over 100 students in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico who had their F-1 student immigration status unlawfully and abruptly terminated with no specified reason as to why.
News
Active with the Activists: Patriots Rally Against Authoritarian Rule
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Two weeks after the last national day of anti-Trump protests and two hundred and fifty years after American patriots fired the “shot heard round the world” in Lexington, Massachusetts, April 19 will be another day of nationwide demonstrations, many of them with a theme of “No Kings.”
Obituary
Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Plaistow’s Norm Major, Former Sen. Pressly, Former Durham Police Chief Gowen
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The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
Courts & Corrections
YDC Abuse Claims Surge As Money Running Low
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Time is running out for the Sununu Youth Development Center (YDC) survivors of abuse to file claims with the state’s YDC Settlement Fund as the money to pay settlements is running out.
Business & Economy
AG: Victory in Antitrust Case Against Google Over Digital Advertising Monopolies
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Attorney General John M. Formella today announced a significant legal victory after the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that Google violated federal antitrust laws by maintaining illegal monopolies in the digital advertising technology industry.
Education
NH Senate Votes To Oppose Home-Grown Cannabis for Therapeutic Use
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Despite pleas from Democrats that the poor who qualify for therapeutic cannabis should be able to grow up to eight ounces at home, Senate Republicans voted to table House Bill 53 on Thursday.
Business & Economy
Shaheen, Collins, King Visit Portsmouth Naval Shipyard with Navy Secretary John Phelan
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The visit was Secretary Phelan’s first to a public shipyard since his confirmation as Secretary of the Navy by the U.S. Senate.
Courts & Corrections
Marital Conversation Taped in DCYF Ex-Employee Abuse Case Not Privileged: Supreme Court
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Under investigation for child abuse, former Division for Children, Youth and Families employee Deborah Bradley and her husband, Kenneth Bradley, thought they were having a private conversation in their lawyer’s office.
Business & Economy
Work Requirement Will Not Move the Needle, Committee Told
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Instituting a new work requirement for able-bodied people on the state’s Granite Advantage Medicaid program was opposed by medical providers, advocates for the disabled, mentally ill, greater healthcare access, and substance abuse treatment and recovery Wednesday.
Courts & Corrections
DOC Deserved Hearing Before Personnel Board Ruled Against Officer’s Firing: Supreme Court
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The New Hampshire Supreme Court says that the Department of Corrections should have been allowed a hearing before the Personnel Appeals Board ruled against the termination of a veteran corrections officer.
Business & Economy
Transgender Access to Bathrooms, Sports Teams Debated
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How do you “vet” whether someone is transgender? How do you decide who can use a women’s or a men’s bathroom and who can’t? How do you ensure fairness in women’s sports?
News
Ice Out! Declared on Winni, and Squam Wednesday
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Open water season in the Lakes Region has begun with Emerson Aviation calling ice out today at 7:02 a.m. on Lake Winnipesaukee.
Arts and Entertainment
After Great Ski Season Two Resorts Announce New Lifts for Next Season
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After a banner season with lots of snow coming at just the right time, two New Hampshire ski areas have announced plans to build new and replace lifts.
Arts and Entertainment
After Senate GOPs Vote Against Field Hearing on Budget, Dems Schedule One in Hampton
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Senate Democrats, however, announced a public listening session on the budget will be held on Wednesday, April 23 at 6:30 p.m. at Winnacunnet High School, 1 Alumni Drive in Hampton.
Education
Opposition Turns Out for Expanding Education Freedom Account Program
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Little support was shown for the Senate’s proposal for expanding the Education Freedom Account program to eliminate any income requirement Tuesday.