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America’s traditional institutions, the foundation for the greatest political experiment in history, are under attack from the social safety net to food regulations, and from the court system to environmental protection.
This ruling is another that this court has issued which breaks with long-standing court precedent and which has the potential of upsetting significant federal agency and department legal interpretations, policy development, regulatory and rules dealing with a multitude of issues.
In part, NH provides special education services to children with qualifying disabilities because the federal government requires NH to do so and conditions the provision of millions of dollars in federal aid on NH’s compliance with federal standards.
The governor vetoed HB 194 requiring the director of the division of historical resources to compile and maintain a list of public monuments and requiring legislative approval of the amendment or permanent removal of historical markers.
The plaintiffs in a suit claiming the Executive Council and state Senate districts were unconstitutionally and unlawfully gerrymandered to give Republicans a significant advantage have appealed a lower court ruling dismissing the case.
As natural gas and, especially, electric rates have soared in recent months there is widespread concern that utilities, their shareholders, and their executives are profiting handsomely at the expense of struggling ratepayers.
This week, Dan Kennedy and Ellen Clegg interviewed me (Nancy West) at InDepthNH.org for their podcast ‘What Works’.
“You can blame it on a cocktail party,” says Cathleen Toomey, Vice President of Marketing at the RiverWoods Group, a family of Continuing Care Retirement Communities. “Because I live in a small town and have worked for RiverWoods for many years, people would come to me at pre-COVID cocktail or dinner parties, even at the grocery store, with questions about aging.”
New Hampshire Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan and her Republican opponent, Don Bolduc, are neck-and-neck only days away from Tuesday’s election.
Approximately half of the waste disposed of in New Hampshire landfills comes from out of state.
We have been deeply troubled by the political discourse of the last several years, the insurrection of January 6th, the disinformation that flies around social media and elsewhere, and the wild conspiracy theories that attempt to blame government and more specifically, Democrats for all that ails this country.
One of my wants is that everyone vote. My want is that people vote for those running for office who inspire with integrity, with vibrance, with confidence.
It is of value if the gun shots when they first ring out will be instantly transmitted to police or fire departments.
The landline phone will stop ringing every half hour, the canvassers will stop knocking, the town halls will be empty, no downtown walks, the despicable ads lying and demonizing candidates will disappear for a while, and the reputations of many candidates will never recover.
For October state levies produced $165 million in revenues with business taxes, the room and meals tax and interest earnings producing most of the $42.7 million in surplus for the month.