COVID
COVID Test Kits For Sale at All Liquor Outlets
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Customers can visit their local NH Liquor & Wine Outlet and purchase COVID-19 test kits for $11.29, while supplies last.
Bill Prohibiting Sanctuary Cities Another Blow to Local Control, Committee Told
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Opposition turned out for a bill that would prohibit any sanctuary cities or towns in the state and block local officials from preventing local law enforcement from cooperating and working with federal immigration authorities.
Local news matters: Nonprofit news outlets shed light on important stories in northern NH and VT
InDepthNH.org and VTDigger help to fill widening gaps in traditional news coverage, including a strong focus on northern-tier issues and events that often have statewide or regional impact.
Shaheen: Trump’s First 100 Days Marred by Chaos, High Costs and Global Retreat
“The President’s sweeping, indiscriminate tariffs that are driving costs through the roof also have dire national security and defense consequences.”
AG: Man Hospitalized After Police-Involved Shooting
Attorney General John M. Formella announces that members of the Attorney General’s Office are responding to a report of an officer-involved shooting that occurred late this afternoon in Keene, New Hampshire.
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Senate Budget Leader Calls for Meeting Between DCYF and Child Advocate
NH Continues to Shift Education Funding to Local Property Taxpayers
Health Care Cuts in House Budget Get Second Look in Senate Finance
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Ten Towns: Rethinking Plastic in New Hampshire
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On Monday, February 7, NH Network will host a panel discussion, “Unwrap the Future: Practical Advice to Reduce Plastic Pollution in our Communities – Rethinking Plastics” to celebrate the launch of its Ten Towns Ten Actions Toolkit, created by citizen leaders in these ten towns.
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Senate Passes Bills Related to COVID-19, Housing and Union Construction
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Senators offered to allow health-care insurers to incentivize getting the COVID-19 shots, similar to premium breaks for getting the flu shot, but state Sen. Bob Giuda, R-Warren, claimed that the science to support vaccinations is just not there, calling the bill “irresponsible.”
COVID-19
Inclement Weather Closure Plan for Outdoor Fixed COVID-19 Testing Sites
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The plan only applies to the seven outdoor testing sites currently overseen by the State.
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Senate Republicans Repeal Ultrasound Mandate But Refuse Other Changes To New Abortion Ban
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CONCORD – On Thursday, Senate Republicans voted to repeal the state’s new law mandating ultrasounds for abortion but preserved the remaining provisions of a new state law that bans abortion after 24 weeks gestation without exceptions for rape, incest, or fatal fetal diagnoses.
COVID
State Reports 7 COVID-19 Deaths, 1,243 New Cases, 257 Hospitalizations Thursday
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There are currently 257 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. In New Hampshire, since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 279,842 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.
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Dover Rep’s Take on Klein-Knight’s Use of ‘N’ Word Stokes Controversy
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Comments critical of BIPOC activists who publicly called out Rep. Nicole Klein-Knight, D-Manchester, for repeatedly using the “N” word and calling security in speaking with a young Black activist at the State House last month have heated up an already uneasy controversy.
COVID
State: Outbreaks at Federal, State Prisons, County Jails; Other Institutions By Name
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There have been a total of 278,691 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.
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Audit Needed To Restore Confidence in Elections, House Committee Told
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A forensic audit of the 2020 election needs to be done to restore faith in the state’s election system, a House committee was told multiple times Wednesday.
EFAs
Ed Committee Mulls Mask and Vaccine Mandates In Public Higher Education, Vouchers
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CONCORD – Education Freedom Accounts and mandatory masking and vaccinations at public colleges and universities were the subject of multiple bills heard during a day-long House Education Committee meeting on Wednesday.
Composting
Surcharge Proposed To Deal With ‘Solid Waste Capacity Crisis’
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David Watters, D-Dover, appeared before the Senate Ways and Means Committee to discuss his bill, which would establish a solid waste fund supported by a waste disposal surcharge.
Black History Month
Anti-Discrimination Law Has Impacts; Senate Dems Seek Repeal of ‘Divisive Concepts’
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A new law that prohibits teaching one race is inherently superior or inferior to another has no place in state statutes, a senate committee was told Tuesday.
Health & Mental Health
State Reports 14 New COVID-19 Deaths, 499 New Cases, 292 Hospitalizations Tuesday
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There are currently 292 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. In New Hampshire, since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 277,355 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.
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‘Sick of Waiting,’ New Report Documents Barriers to Medicaid
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The Rights & Democracy Institute brought together spokespeople in health care and government to respond to a new report “Sick of Waiting: Barriers to Medicaid Keep Healthcare Out of Reach.”
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Bills To Assess Need Or Eliminate School Vouchers Meet Opposition
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One might expect that a bill to eliminate a new state voucher program that just launched in the fall would meet with opposition, but a separate bill, seeking to ensure that the Education Freedom Accounts go only to families in need of financial help also met with strong opposition during a hearing before the Senate Education Committee on Tuesday.
News
Congress and House Redistricting Plans Draw Criticism
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There was little support for Republican plans for redrawing the boundary lines of the state’s Congressional districts or for New Hampshire House seats.
News
AG Investigates Suspicious Death of Man in Haverhill, N.H.
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Early this morning, police responded to a business in Haverhill, New Hampshire, for a
report of the discovery of a dead body in the building, and there found a deceased male.
Business & Economy
Utility Regulation, Coen Brothers Style
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In visual terms, the most memorable thing about Fargo was the sight of Steve Buscemi’s dismembered body being fed into a tree chipper. It wasn’t exactly heartwarming family entertainment.
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Proposed Constitutional Amendment Would Tighten Voting Requirements
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A proposed constitutional amendment would require a person to be a resident of the state to vote in elections, not just domiciled here.
COVID
State Reports 4 New COVID-19 Deaths, 4,410 New Cases, 303 Hospitalizations Monday
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There are currently 303 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. In New Hampshire, since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 276,856 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.