News
Dems Talk Bail Reform
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Eight members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives released statements on bail reform.
AG: Manchester Teen Wanted To Be Shot By Police
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A Manchester teen wanted a deadly confrontation with police when he pulled a BB gun replica of a 9 mm pistol on a police officer, according to the report released Thursday by New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella’s office.
State and Coalition Communities Argue Education Funding Decision Is Wrong
State attorneys reiterate arguments rejected by a Superior Court Judge in declaring the Statewide Education Property Tax unconstitutional in their legal brief to the state Supreme Court filed Wednesday evening appealing the lower court’s decision.
Maine Law Firm Vets YDC Abuse Claims and Paid From Same Victims’ Settlement Fund
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.
State Education Board Adopts Controversial New Rules
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.
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Nominee for Fish and Game Director Praised at Public Hearing
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Education
Edelblut, Cline Object to Vote To Delay Learn Everywhere
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Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut issued the following statement in response to the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules (JLCAR) voting along party lines to object to Learn Everywhere,
News
Presidential Candidates on the Move in New Hampshire
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Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, and more are coming in the coming days & weeks.
Feature
Rep’s Blood Boiled When Sununu Passed Out Big Education Checks
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“Sununu sends $575K to HD school district,” it said. Sununu? SUNUNU???? Seriously?
Energy
NH Senate Dems Unveil Energy Reform & Climate Action Package for 2020
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Senate Democrats unveiled their 2020 agenda to tackle energy costs, advance clean energy jobs in New Hampshire, and combat the climate crisis right here in New Hampshire.
Courts & Corrections
Hillsborough County To Re-Indict Strangulation Cases After Policy Change
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Michael Conlon said the action is being taken at the direction of the Attorney General’s Office, which also made the decision to stop the practice of having an investigator meet with grand jurors who were going to hear strangulation allegations first to explain the law.
On Message
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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.
Environment & Science
Judge’s Ruling Paves Way for Construction To Begin on Seacoast Powerline Project
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CLF sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and project developer Eversource trying to halt the $84 million, 13-mile transmission line from Madbury to Portsmouth.
Education
OP-ED: 2-Year Tuition Freeze at NH Community Colleges Highlights Opportunities
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The state budget recently signed into law enables all seven of New Hampshire’s community colleges to freeze tuition for two academic years.
News
Michael Bennet to attend candidate forum in Portsmouth
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U.S. Senator Michael Bennet will be the next presidential candidate to participate in a presidential candidate forum on the health and growth of the U.S. economy.
Health & Mental Health
DHHS’s Meyers to Pursue Opportunities in Private Sector
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“After spending the past 13 years in state government as legal counsel to the state senate, legal counsel to Governor John H. Lynch, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs at DHHS, and most recently as commissioner, I wish to seek out new opportunities in the private sector,” Meyers said.
Feature
NH Needs a School Bus Full of Julie Browns
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Julie Brown of Rochester represented what our founders envisioned in creating a legislature of common citizens, a good public servant with passion, empathy, compassion and the common sense to balance competing needs.
Feature
Gotta Love That Pemigewasset River
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Reed no sooner put his fly in the water when a big Brown Trout grabbed his ant and headed down stream. Line was screaming out from the reel and off he ran down river.
Feature
Reciting the Hail Mary in Under 10 Seconds
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Today I muse joyfully that I purchased that kneeler and celebrate the transformation of brown to periwinkle blue, on pleather to polka dots, on the transformative brilliance of prayer.
Featured in Category
Potential Impacts of Proposed SNAP Eligibility and Work Requirement Changes
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About one in eight children across New Hampshire benefit from SNAP, and 73,959 individuals were enrolled as of August 2019.
Featured in Category
Sen. Feltes Demands Unsealing Records of Glenn Normandeau’s Ouster
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Also on Thursday, Gov. Chris Sununu said it was the New Hampshire Fish and Game Commission’s call to oust its long-time executive director, not his.
Education
‘Textbook-free’ course now at Nashua Community College, more in the fall
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The cost for the English 101 textbook dropped from $118.25 to $0.
Health & Mental Health
Judge To Rule Soon on Future of Seacoast Powerline Project
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The project has been controversial on a number of fronts, but mainly that it will be buried in Little Bay, a fragile estuary that local towns have been working to clean up for years and spending millions in the process.
Environment & Science
Normandeau Blasts Fish and Game Commission for Secret Vote Against Him
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Chairman Robert “Moose” Phillipson of Cheshire County, said: “We were requested by the governor to not say anything to you until it was done. The actual decision was made between you and the governor.”