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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.
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.
The House made it more difficult to vote by absentee ballot passing several bills that will require more information to vote in absentia Thursday.
AG: At approximately 7:56 p.m. Thursday John Swanson was shot during a confrontation with the police. He sustained injuries and is currently receiving medical treatment.
Democrats former Vice President Joe Biden and Andrew Yang and Republican Stephen Conley Sr. – all filed their intent to be on the New Hampshire presidential primary ballot.
Gov. Chris Sununu says he has a scheduling conflict, but we are still trying to get him to the discussion as well because that’s what journalists do since Feltes and Volinsky are vying for the Democratic primary to challenge him.
The Fiscal Committee cited budgetary concerns and an unknown impact on the charter schools already operating in the state in turning down the federal funds.
Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.
Former state Rep. JR Hoell, who is the Coalition’s secretary, said the complaint was a publicity stunt on the part of Democrats.
The Goffstown Republican and gun rights advocate is now removed from the powerful committee that will hear as many as nine bills dealing with guns this coming session.
Deadlines loom for 156 retained bills from the last session, which will be among the first orders of business when the legislature returns on Jan. 8, 2020.
Today, the New Hampshire Democratic Party filed an election law complaint against the New Hampshire Firearms Coalition (NHFC) for refusing to put its name and required disclaimer on hateful signs it printed that depict New Hampshire Democrats as Nazis.
It looks like the Merrimack tolls will be eliminated starting Jan. 1 after a vote Wednesday by members of the Executive Council in their role as the Governor’s Advisory Commission on Intermodal Transportation.
Berlin, Claremont, Laconia, Manchester and Somersworth vote to allow sports betting; Dover and Rochester approve the sale of KENO 603
House GOP Leader Dick Hinch: “I believe there are better ways to help consumers make informed decisions other than forcing stores to charge consumers ten cents per bag.”
The first Task Force meeting will be held on December 12, 2019.
The 59-year-old granddaughter of an iron ore miner and the first woman elected to the Senate from Minnesota in 2006, Klobuchar addressed supporters at a State House rally after filing to be a candidate at the Secretary of State’s Office Wednesday morning.
In Laconia, a city that Donald Trump won by 13 points, Democrat Andrew Hosmer nearly flipped that partisan advantage, winning by nearly 10 points.
Mayor Craig: “I’m honored and humbled to have been elected to serve a second term as Mayor of Manchester.”
Wayne D. King, The Radical Centrist, interviews Doug McLane, a founder of Pemi Climate Emergency Coalition, about the Plymouth Select Board’s recent declaration of a climate emergency.
A 10-cent charge for single-use plastic bags could be coming to a store near you as legislators debated an amendment to a bill Tuesday that would create a uniform state bag law.
“After meeting with Representative Hinch and Merrimack officials last week, it is clear that we need to remove the cost of the Merrimack Exit 11 tolls,” said Gov. Chris Sununu.
Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.
