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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.
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“The President’s sweeping, indiscriminate tariffs that are driving costs through the roof also have dire national security and defense consequences.”
Attorney General John M. Formella announces that members of the Attorney General’s Office are responding to a report of an officer-involved shooting that occurred late this afternoon in Keene, New Hampshire.
The state could re-open Hampton Beach to walking, surfing, and other transitory uses by June 1, according to a proposal the Hampton Chamber submitted to the Governor’s Economic Reopening Task Force Friday.
Golf courses are likely to see some new divets across New Hampshire on Monday when the links open to residents and members only.
The massage community also called in imploring the task force, sometimes tearfully, to allow them to help alleviate the pain of their clients who have gone almost two months without a massage treatment.
Trying to keep up with the government committees and task force meetings by phone about COVID-19? Here are some coming soon and you are invited to call in.
The people who died were a woman in Hillsborough County, a man in Rockingham County, and a man in Strafford County, all 60 years of age and older.
Sununu took to the radio Thursday morning on Jack Heath’s NH Today applauding ConvenientMD and blasting the Executive Council for voting on Wednesday to table the state’s request to withdraw $950 million from the treasury claiming lack of sufficient information from the governor’s office.
On Wednesday, the state reported 19 deaths from the novel coronavirus with a total number of deaths in the state at 111.
The state Department of Health and Human Services announced 19 news deaths from COVID-19, all related to long-term care facilities, bringing the total to 111.
One of the priorities is help for hospitals and committee members said they want to see the aid distributed as grants rather than the initial $50 million health-care emergency relief fund which has distributed about $18 million in low-interest loans.
The details of expanded testing came a day after the state released data for the first time that showed 77 percent of all COVID-19 deaths in New Hampshire were associated with long-term care facilities, the highest percentage in the country.
Some councilors are concerned that Gov. Chris Sununu is keeping them and state legislators out of the spending loop in violation of the state Constitution.
Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.
There have now been 2,636 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed in New Hampshire.
Altogether, in the 16 facilities identified by the state in the newly released data, 473 residents have been infected, there have been 266 staff cases, 66 deaths and 18 with cause of death under investigation.
State revenues showed signs of trouble last month, but this month the damage is more clearly defined.
The board met Tuesday and voted unanimously “not to reinvent the wheel” but instead use state boards like the Business Finance Authority as well as organizations like the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation to be clearing houses for applications and distribution networks for funneling the $1.25 billion in federal money to businesses, nonprofits, health care and social service providers, and others harmed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The daily meeting began admonishing members to mute their phones when not speaking as on previous days the public could hear them laughing, gasping, and making comments in their homes and offices while their line was live.
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NHDRA is urging individuals to submit their applications by June 30.
Members continued to ask Monday for detailed information on relief funds already distributed by the governor and the amount of the $1.25 billion CARES Act funds already allocated.