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Historic Legislative Session Combative from Start to Finish
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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.
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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When Sinning Isn’t Fun Anymore, Like Spumoni
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Covid causes me to sin like this: wishing my life away.
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Of 242 Total COVID-19 Deaths, 200 Associated With Long-Term Care
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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.
Black Lives Matter
Police: Man with Trump flag on truck drives by protesters outside police station, pulls gun, gets arrested
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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.
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1,000 Rally in Manchester for Black Lives Matter March
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“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.
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New Data Shows 82% COVID-19 Deaths Related to Long-Term Care
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The new DHHS COVID-19 Dashboard will be updated daily to display data on COVID-19 cases, related hospitalizations and deaths, and additional demographic detail and county of residence.
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Total Cases and Deaths By Nursing Homes: NH Data
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The state Department of Health and Human Services announced six new COVID-19 deaths Friday bringing the total to 238.
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House GOP Want Business Tax Changes From Last Session’s Budget Deal
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Republican House members seek Democratic support to change the budget law passed last year to prevent a potential business tax rate increase.
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Churches, Hotels, Camps Get Reopen Dates, Guidance Amid New COVID-19 Deaths, Clusters
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Gov. Sununu also extended the Stay-at-Home emergency order for the third time until June 15.
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NH DMV To Resume Road Tests June 1
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Prior to scheduling a road test, applicants must complete all driver licensing requirements, including successfully passing a knowledge test. Go to www.nh.gov/dmv to request a road test.
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NH Supreme Court Delivers Blow to Police Misconduct Confidentiality
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The two cases were filed in the state Supreme Court by the New Hampshire Union Leader and Seacoast Newspapers after they were denied access to documents involving alleged police misconduct in separate public records cases under the internal personnel practices exemption of RSA 91a, the state’s right-to-know law.
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9 More Deaths, 101 New COVID-19 Cases
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They include four men and two women from Hillsborough County, all older than 60, and two men from Hillsborough County who were younger than 60, and one man from Rockingham County who is older than 60.
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Nursing Home’s First COVID-19 Patient in Coos County Now Tests Negative
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Family of residents at Country Village said they were contacted by the nursing home staff that a resident has tested positive and that the entire facility would be tested.
Martha Fuller Clark
Senator Fuller Clark To Retire after 30 years
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Many of you will be disappointed to learn that I will not be running for re-election this June, but I know it is the right time for me to relinquish my seat as the State Senator from District 21 and time for a new generation of political leaders to fill this seat on behalf of the voters of District 21.
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Brain Masks
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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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9 More COVID-19 Deaths, 56 New Positive Cases: NH Data
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The deceased are four women and three men from Hillsborough County, all over the age of 60, and two men from Rockingham County, one younger than 60.
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NH Men’s Prison Inmate Tests Positive for COVID-19
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As the sending facility noted that they had positive cases of COVID-19, the department took proactive measures and he was immediately brought to a health services single-observation room for a 14-day quarantine to monitor for signs and symptoms of COVID-19.
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NH Revenue Doom and Gloom Will Take Time To Lift
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The COVID-19 pandemic may trigger an increase in business tax rates, something Gov. Chris Sununu opposes.
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Scientists Frustrated Sununu Refuses Mandatory Mask Order
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“Lives definitely could have been saved,” said Rich DiPentima, who retired after serving top public health posts in the state and Manchester, including several stints as the acting state epidemiologist.
AG Seeks Info on Homicide of Laconia Boy, 5, Who Died of Head, Neck Trauma
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Based on the autopsy and subsequent testing and analysis, Dr. James has determined that Dennis’s cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head and neck, and the manner of his death was ruled homicide.