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At a time when the Trump Administration is taking a chain saw to humanities programs across the nation, the Mellon Foundation announced Wednesday grants totaling $15 million including as much as $250,000 for the NH Humanities Council.
Diversity may be out of fashion in certain circles, but my annual roadside trash survey reveals an opposing trend: Beer’s dominance among local litterers may be trending downward, with a wide array of other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks on the rise.
I hate to even raise the topic of racism. I know how painful it is to be wrongly accused.
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.
Gov. Chris Sununu sent a letter to Massachusetts court officials Tuesday questioning their decision to grant custody of Harmony Montgomery – the missing Manchester girl – to her father Adam Montgomery.
The hearings take place Wednesday just days before the 49th, and possibly last, anniversary of Roe v. Wade on January 22.
The Jaffrey-Rindge MLK Committee is hosting its celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday virtually tonight.
Mobile Vaccine Clinic in Newfields Will Be Open from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm.
Winter is finally here, and so is Winter weather. For some flyfishers, their fishing seasons are Spring, Summer and Fall.
It is time to end the pretense it is safe to hold in-person House and Senate committee meetings and sessions.
I muse joyfully on this frigid, frigid January day, on the ice so deep I can skate, on my flannel sheets, on blankets around the house, on the mittens and hats strewn around so the outside is cozy, is doable, is January.
News item: It’s wintertime! Overshoe, New Hampshire, will soon be covered with snow.
Community Action Works (formerly Toxics Action Center) and Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) have settled their federal Clean Water Act lawsuit against Casella Waste Systems, Inc., and North Country Environmental Services, Inc., for the discharge of pollutants from the companies’ Bethlehem Landfill into the Ammonoosuc River.
There are currently 426 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. In New Hampshire, since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 235,898 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.
Another state representative has tested positive for COVID-19 after last week’s House session at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Manchester, bringing the total known cases from that event to six.
New Hampshire’s first woman Speaker of the House was renowned for appropriating the phrase “herding cats” as her way to humorously describe the process of governing the 400-member House of Representatives aka the General Court in New Hampshire.
There are 16 patients at the New Hampshire Hospital, the state’s psychiatric facility, who have tested positive for COVID-19 and all patients are being asked to stay in their rooms, according to Jake Leon, spokesman for the Department for Health and Human Services.
The Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester will get another $846,000 in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds to help staff the facility for troubled youth as the state moves in 2023 to transition it to a more clinical-based model.
There are currently 432 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19. In New Hampshire, since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 233,508 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.
Two more House members have tested positive for COVID-19 and believe they were infected at sessions at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Manchester last week, bringing the known total to at least five.
WASHINGTON – Gov. Chris Sununu laid out some of the work he says the state needs to continue to do to be the best place to live and work in the nation in an interview at the Cato Institute Thursday.
The genesis for establishing a ballot initiative process in New Hampshire was the Senate’s failure to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, a representative said Thursday.
As many who follow state politics know, in September the House Judiciary Committee proposed and was able to pass with a Republican nudge a proposed amendment to repeal the vile ultrasound mandate inappropriately inserted — and itself inappropriate on all grounds — within the state budget.
CONCORD — Freshman Rep. Tony Labranche, D-Amherst, has introduced several proposed constitutional amendments that would change the way New Hampshire’s representative form of government would work.