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The state is paying an out-of-state law firm to vet claims by victims who were abused as children while incarcerated at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester – then called YDC – out of the same $160 million the legislature approved to compensate victims through the settlement fund.
After more than an hour of fine-tuning the proposed overhaul of the rules governing the state education minimum standards, the State Board of Education unanimously adopted its controversial proposal Wednesday.
“All things considered” is another common example, so common that since 1971 it has been the name of a news program on National Public Radio. Here the participle is “considered.”
Dr. Stephanie L. Simek, Washington state’s expert on large game carnivores, including cougars and wolves, answered questions of the state’s Executive Council Tuesday as she is the governor’s pick to run the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department as its new executive director.
If the media fails to do so immediately after written notification, it “shall result in the liability of the New Hampshire news media organization for any damages incurred by the person caused by such failure,” the bill states.
Public education needs more money and taxing electronic products at 4.3 percent would help fill the void, the House Ways and Means Committee was told Wednesday.
Refrigerator filters are an attractive target for unscrupulous sellers looking to make a quick buck.
Martin Toe of Manchester said it is wrong for people to have to work three jobs just to make enough to live.
As amended, the bill would set state PFAS maximum contaminant levels at the same levels recommended by the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services in 2019.
New Hampshire’s news media should not be shackled by the state Legislature to change the very foundation on which news is gathered and reported. Correcting a legitimate error is one thing, but being mandated to rewrite history to present day is unconstitutional.
Meeting Monday for the first time, the commission picked a leader and agreed to hold forums around the state as the members work to develop recommendations for the next legislature that serves beginning in 2021.
Last week, I drove 300 miles north of the Lakes Region of New Hampshire to Quebec to ski and visit with my Canadian cousins at Tremblant.
The lawsuit filed by Rilee and Associates says it represents 36 individuals so far.
Telling a journalist something is a secret is nothing more than the issuing of a challenge. It’s in our DNA to want to know some bit of information when someone closes the door in our faces.
The Moms Demand Action meeting will not be open to the press, but former Mass. Governor Deval Patrick will hold a press availability after the meeting’s conclusion.
Next week is the beginning. Much more lies ahead. Stay tuned to Garry Rayno’s Distant Dome and InDepthNH.org State House coverage daily.
“My friends in California are working on robot trucks that can drive themselves. They tell me that they’re 98 percent of the way there,” Andrew Yang said.
I feel like this man at least thirty times a day.
The failure of some facilities, including the Sununu Youth Services Center, to end the use of prone restraint and reduce the use of all restraint has significant long-term consequences for our children.
“Rather than embracing the successful policies of Republican leadership, Democrats seem content to repeatedly try to undermine New Hampshire’s economic progress by mandating a 100% wage hike for some,” said House Republican Leader Dick Hinch.
By comparison, New Hampshire public schools reported 5,245 restraint incidents and 3,429 seclusion incidents from school years 2015 to 2018.
Eversource wants to increase its annual revenues in New Hampshire by almost $70 million. That amounts to a rate hike of nearly 20 percent.
Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.
Rep. Ann Kuster, D-NH: “This afternoon, we were briefed by administration officials on the classified intelligence that prompted President Trump to order the Baghdad attack that killed General Soleimani. What I heard raises more questions than answers.”