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Opinion: Councilor Pignatelli ‘Setting the Record Straight’
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“The governor is playing politics with important appointments to state agencies and boards.”
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“The governor is playing politics with important appointments to state agencies and boards.”
The state Department of Health and Human Services announced 8 additional deaths related to COVID-19 Friday. We offer our sympathies to the family and friends.
Featuring presentations on state and local police training and standards, the Commission on Law Enforcement Accountability, Community, and Transparency met for its second meeting on Friday.
The New Hampshire Police Standards and Training Council is still trying to resolve outstanding issues found in last year’s audit, including the lack of full psychological screening of potential police officers.
The state Department of Health and Human Services announced ten additional deaths related to COVID-19 on Thursday. We offer our sympathies to the family and friends.
Voting will be different this year with the coronavirus pandemic and state officials are taking steps to protect the health of voters and election workers.
An independent commission to redraw the state’s political boundaries was supported at a Senate committee meeting Thursday.
Timothy Verrill’s defense blasted the state Attorney General’s Office Thursday for not only failing to turn over voluminous evidence before his double homicide trial ended in mistrial last fall, but also for failing to examine past homicide cases to determine what went wrong beyond blaming “everybody else.”
As unemployment compensation requests continued to drop along with COVID-19 cases here, Gov. Chris Sununu announced that hotels can open to full capacity as of Monday and a new fund is being established to help provide financial relief for the self-employed.
Two hours of diversity training for each police recruit is not enough and should be an ongoing theme throughout officer instruction, John Scippa the director of NH Police Standards and Training told a new police accountability commission on Thursday.
We will not apply to the Governor’s Fund for any of the $60 million CARES Act money earmarked for nonprofit organizations.
They include a man and a woman from Hillsborough County, both older than 60, and two men from Rockingham County, both older than 60.
Down party lines and after three hours of testimony, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill supporters say will help prevent suicide, but opponents contend tramples fundamental constitutional rights.
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu said he is holding out hope for reconsideration for his nominee Ryan Terrell to the state Board of Education, while Executive Councilor Debora Pignatelli lashed out over a letter of withdrawal from another of the governor’s nominees of color, Eddie Edwards, saying she is not a racist.
The deceased include three men and one woman, all older than 60 from Hillsborough County.
The briefing touched on a wide range of issues from Eddie Edwards’s withdrawing his name from nomination as director of the board of licensure and certification to Hampton Beach trash to vetoing legislation that the House and Senate are still working to finalize.
Terry Farish loves telling stories about people, the kind of stories that others might overlook or not see at all.
“I’m hoping everyone’s recommendations are really taken into consideration and everyone’s voice is heard,” Ronelle Tshiela.
Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.
The state Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday 15 new positive test results for COVID-19 and no new deaths.