Education
Sen. Hough – In Claremont Lawsuit, He Testified for the Other Side – NH Students
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PODCAST: Former state Senate President Ralph Hough gave New Hampshire a Senate to remember in 1992.
Authorities Say Woman Arrested in 2019 ‘Death of Juvenile,’ But Don’t Identify Child Victim
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A Belknap County grand jury returned indictments charging Sherry Connor with manslaughter for recklessly causing the death of the juvenile. Further, the grand jury returned indictments on charges of negligent homicide, six counts of first degree assault, second degree assault and four counts of witness tampering.
Next YDC Abuse Civil Trial Set For 2025
Facing a potentially debilitating number of civil trials that could consume the court for decades, Rockingham Superior Court Judge Andrew Schulman is pushing forward with a schedule for the 801 Sununu Youth Services Center – formerly called YDC – abuse cases on his docket.
Fly Fishing the Kancamagus
One of my fly fishing challenges every year is to fish waters that are new to me. This is never a problem in a state like New Hampshire because there is so much water to fish.
Roger Wood’s Podcast: NH Childcare Centers Finally Get Promised Checks
It took a year, but childcare centers in New Hampshire qualifying for state funds have finally received them. The legislature appropriated $15 million for hiring and retention help for childcare workers.
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Fiscal Approves $6M Grant for Community Health Centers; Extends Rye Harbor Grant Date
Fiscal OKs Changes to YDC Settlement Program; Chairman Suggests Lie Detectors
Henry Walters – Falconer and Poet
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All About Soldiers and Loyalty and Anger and Love
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It is a story of the last six years of Bonaparte’s life. The world was at war.
Business & Economy
Lawmakers Take On Wood-Burning Plant Subsidies and Net Metering, Again
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Should you pay to subsidize wood-burning electric generating plants?
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The Spirit of Opening Day Is Time With Your Kids
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I associated the opening day of fishing with the opening day of baseball and Spring. A time to celebrate being outdoors.
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Repeal Veto
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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.
Business & Economy
Bipartisan Biomass Energy Amendment Seeks To Avoid Long Legal Fight
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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on the amendment on Tuesday, May 7.
Featured in Category
Sununu Vetoes Death Penalty Repeal; Activists Hope To Override
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Maintaining the death penalty in our state, even if infrequently used, makes us complicit in the bias and corruption of the death penalty system nationwide, where one out of every 10 of those put on death row are later exonerated, said Barbara Keshen.
Business & Economy
House GOP Leader Reacts to April Revenue Report
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I think this demonstrates the success of common sense tax rate reductions.
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Catch the Candidates Coming To NH This Week
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Your handy guide to which 2020 candidates are headed to NH next (7 in the next week, including a few new ones!)
Business & Economy
Senate Backs Medical Pot Patients Growing Their Own; House Adds DCYF Staff
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Marijuana in the spotlight in Concord, along with the Medicaid work requirement, mental health and child protection.
Energy
Rate Design: The Fun Phase of Any Rate Case
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You can read James C. Bonbright’s famous treatise, Principles of Public Utility Rates, of more than 400 pages. Or take D. Maurice Kreis’s word for it. Hmm.
News
Death Penalty Repeal Awaits Sununu’s Veto
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The New Hampshire Senate previously voted 17 to 6 to pass a bill to repeal the death penalty. And the House voted 279 to 88 — also reaching a veto-proof majority.
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OPINION: Please Support the Death Penalty Repeal Bill Gov. Sununu
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As people who have lost loved ones to homicide, as members of the law enforcement community, and as advocates for justice, we appeal to you once more to sign the measure repealing the state’s death penalty.
Education
IHoP-NH: You Can Count On Christa McAuliffe School’s 4th Graders
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On May Day, fourth-graders from the Christa McAuliffe School marched down the street to the State House to sing “Count on Me” on the granite steps in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month.
Business & Economy
Councilor Ted Gatsas Is Off To The Races at Kentucky Derby
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This weekend, Ted Gatsas will watch Vekoma, his three-year-old horse, being ridden by Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano in the run for the roses.
Business & Economy
Army Corps: Seacoast Power Project Impacts on Federal Waters Will Be Significant
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The Army Corps announced it will require a site specific “individual” permit rather than a “general” permit which would have left the bulk of the work to the state Department of Environmental Services.
News
AG: Woman Whose Death at DHMC Was Investigated Was From Natural Causes
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Susan Massey, age 67, of East Corinth, Vermont, was receiving treatment at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center when she died on January 27, 2019.
News
Committee Backs Bill To Stop ‘Period Poverty’ in Schools
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On Tuesday, the New Hampshire House Education Committee voted 13-7 in support of SB 142, requiring menstrual hygiene products in school restrooms.
Business & Economy
Bill To Notify Abutters Of Proposed OHRV Road Use Gains Traction
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Many of the supporters of the measure were from the North Country where OHRV use has exploded. But there were also a number of property owners who spoke in favor of the bill from the towns of Bradford, Hillsborough, and Warner who are facing a boom in off-roading interest in the Mink Hills.