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273 Total COVID-19 Deaths, 225 of Them or 82.4% Linked to Long-Term Care
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The eight deceased Thursday include four women and three men in Hillsborough County and one woman from Merrimack County, all over the age of 60.
Distant Dome: Willfully and Knowingly Making a Mess of Public Education
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If you watched the House session Thursday, you had to realize the message the Republican majority is sending on public education.
Related: Distant Dome: This Is How Democracy Dies
Op-Ed: Who are New Hampshire Republicans: Are they the company they keep?
“Well, we all are going to die” is the tone deaf quip Sen. Ernst had to offer last
week, in response to a constituent who expressed concern over how the
devastating cuts to Medicaid in the GOP budget plan will cause people to perish.
Carbon Sequestration, Sobriety Check Refusal Punishment Now Part of Parental Rights Bill
A measure to impose a moratorium on creating any new carbon sequestration forest farms in the state and the formation of a study committee on the impacts to the municipal timber tax revenue is more likely to pass into law after Littleton Republican Sen. David Rochefort got his colleagues to include it in a non-related parental rights bill.
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House Votes New Requirements for Absentee Voting
Education Freedom Accounts Expanded by House
NH Senate Passes $15.7 Billion Budget Without Support from Democrats
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AG: All Can Vote Absentee With COVID-19 Excuse; Panel Mulls ‘No Excuse’ Bill
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The state could go to “no excuse” absentee voting under a bill that is being considered by the Senate Election Law Committee.
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‘… out of this chaos and uncertainty, the seeds of greatness, empathy, and change will take hold’
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I struggled to compose such a correspondence.
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Get Some Fresh Air While You File for Office in NH
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Have you signed up to run for office yet?
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9 New COVID-19 Deaths, 47 More Cases
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They include five women and three men from Hillsborough County and one man from Merrimack County, all over 60.
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Winston Manuse
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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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Sununu Supports Protests; Nursing Home Deaths Continue
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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.
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State Revenues for May Continue Downward Slide
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Liquor revenues are pretty much on target, producing $10.8 million for the month and $119.1 million for the year to date.
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Partisan Divide May Halt Legislative Work This Year
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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.
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Double Your Donation June 9 from 6 p.m. to June 10 at 6 p.m. for NH Gives
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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.
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11 New COVID-19 Deaths, 65 More Cases
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They included six women and four men from Hillsborough County and one woman from Rockingham County, all over the age of 60.
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AG: Hospitals, Nursing Homes Have Immunity During Emergency
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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.
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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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Senate Panel Backs PFAS Limits Bill and Nursing Home Safety Study
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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.
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74,344 Total People Tested for COVID-19
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The state Department of Health and Human Services announced 39 new positive test results for COVID-19 on Monday.
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House Committee Eyes Grim Revenue Picture
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State revenues could be $600 million to $355 million less than anticipated for the remainder of the biennium which ends June 30, 2021.
Black Lives Matter
Sununu Disagrees With Trump’s Call To ‘Dominate’ Protesters
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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.
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Speaker, GOP Leaders Try To Salvage House Session
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Democratic and Republican House leaders met Monday without a resolution that would allow the House and Legislature to continue their work this session.
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83% of COVID-19 Deaths Long-Term Care Related
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The state Department of Health and Human Services announced three additional COVID-19 deaths on Sunday.
Info Sought About Death of Boy, 6, Reported Missing in Rollinsford
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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.