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Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.
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Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.
Three months to the day since the state’s first case of COVID-19 was announced, Gov. Chris Sununu said on Wednesday we have likely already hit bottom and using charts provided an optimistic update on the direction of the pandemic.
Liquor revenues are pretty much on target, producing $10.8 million for the month and $119.1 million for the year to date.
The partisan divide in the New Hampshire House was evident Wednesday on its rules committee in deciding whether to allow late bills but did come together over stale beer.
This is our fourth year participating in NH Gives, but the most important one for us and all of the nonprofits in New Hampshire because of COVID-19.
They included six women and four men from Hillsborough County and one woman from Rockingham County, all over the age of 60.
Attorney General Gordon MacDonald issued a little-known opinion that says hospitals, nursing homes and other residential care facilities, their employees and volunteers have the same immunity from lawsuits the state is entitled to as long as they comply with Gov. Chris Sununu’s emergency declaration.
Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.
The Senate will be asked to approve two consolidated and amended bills that would set into law limits of some chemicals in drinking water believed connected with a childhood cancer cluster on the Seacoast and one related to the study of the safety of residents and staff of nursing homes, particularly now during the pandemic.
The state Department of Health and Human Services announced 39 new positive test results for COVID-19 on Monday.
State revenues could be $600 million to $355 million less than anticipated for the remainder of the biennium which ends June 30, 2021.
While the state reported no new deaths but 39 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, Gov. Chris Sununu was focused at his press briefing on the recent weekend of violence around the country.
Democratic and Republican House leaders met Monday without a resolution that would allow the House and Legislature to continue their work this session.
The state Department of Health and Human Services announced three additional COVID-19 deaths on Sunday.
On Saturday, New Hampshire State Police-Marine Patrol dispatch received a call reporting a missing child who had been wading with an adult in the Salmon Falls River in Rollinsford near the boat launch.
Presidential years intensify the partisan divide as parties fight over who will have the power of the presidency and that has certainly been true this year.
Covid causes me to sin like this: wishing my life away.
The state also announced 55 new positive test results for COVID-19. There have now been 4,545 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in New Hampshire. Several cases are still under investigation.
A peaceful sit-in by Black Lives Matters protesters outside the Manchester Police Department Saturday was interrupted when a truck displaying a large Trump flag drove by the group at about 1:30 p.m. A confrontation between the truck’s driver and the group ended with a gun threat and two arrests.
“We plan to stand in solidarity with the people who are assassinated in our country,” said Tyrell Whitted, a Manchester resident and one of the march organizers with Black Lives Matter.