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From cutting Medicaid rates by 3 percent to eliminating funds for family planning clinics, to suspending the farmers market program for poor women, infants and children the House Finance Committee voted to recommend a state budget for Health and Human Services Tuesday, reducing $290 million from the next two years of general fund distributions.
A measure that would prohibit language related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in all state contracts going forward passed without public hearing by House Republicans in the Finance Committee who pushed for reconsideration of a vote to defeat it after a Democrat left the meeting at the end of a long day.
It appears that cell phone use in schools is about to be limited or entirely curtailed in New Hampshire classrooms.
A new study by the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute finds business tax rate reductions have cost the state between $795 million and $1.17 billion in forgone revenue since 2015 without the often promised bump in revenue due to increased economic activity.
The centerpiece of New Hampshire Chorale’s two concerts on Father’s Day weekend is “The Radio Hour,” an innovative one-act “choral opera” about a woman who’s given a new lease on life by a trip through Radioland.
Now in its ninth year, NH Gives, an initiative of the New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits, is New Hampshire’s largest online fundraising event for nonprofits.
The NH Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the victims as 36-year-old Hope Schraer of Enfield, NH, and 38-year-old Allen Ballou of Royalton, VT.
“There are a lot of people coming to the realization that firearms in your home don’t necessarily make you safer,” she said, and Guns to Gardens offers a solution.
A 3-year-old child suffered significant head and facial trauma falling from a third-floor window Sunday, according to a Manchester fire department news release.
But both those hanging up their legislative pins and those who hope to return cannot be overjoyed about the financial picture for the state heading into the 2025 fiscal year that begins July 1.
The woman who accused ex-state Sen. Jeffrey Woodburn of domestic violence was investigated by the Attorney General’s Office for text messages she sent to the victim advocate about jury deliberations after his March mistrial.
The Manchester Police Athletic League’s Choices program connects at-risk youth and formerly incarcerated individuals to build trust and drive positive change.
A wake surfing bill was sunk by the Senate last week but is likely to resurface next year with the New Hampshire Lakes Association calling on lake supporters to run for office.
It was a busy week at the Secretary of State’s office in the State House as the filing period has opened for all elected state offices.
The idea of a solarize campaign is simple: the local volunteers agree to help potential customers understand the systems and to do free publicity for a solar installer. In exchange, the solar company can offer discounted pricing.
It was 150 years ago that the iconic Wentworth by the Sea hotel in New Castle, New Hampshire was born.
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Positive identification of the victims and cause and manner of death are pending an autopsy, which will take place at the NH State Medical Examiner’s Office in Concord, NH, on June 7, 2024.
Even though he died from a drug overdose last year, the federal malpractice lawsuit brought by NSC-131’s Leo Cullinan against Catholic Medical Center is still going. His brother, Jonathan Cullinan, took over the claims in November and is seeking millions of dollars from the Manchester hospital.
“(To) Wait . . . an ironic verb, an action word, used to describe inaction. Derived from the French “to wake, to become alert to” To wait and to wake are not opposites but twins. We love NOW because it IS now. “Now” holds at once all of time in its fullness” ~ Sy Montgomery, “Of Time and Turtles”
House and Senate negotiators reached agreement on expanding the Education Freedom Account program that would increase the income threshold for a family of four by $23,400 beginning next school year.
Senate and House conferees came to an agreement Thursday on a bill they can support and which the governor is likely to sign, that creates a system to sell cannabis to adults in the same way the state sells liquor.
Secretary of State David Scanlan said it will be more work for election workers but his office can administer a measure that has reached consensus among House and Senate negotiators eliminating the voter identification exceptions.
At approximately 10:22 p.m. Wednesday, June 5, the Seabrook police and fire departments responded to a crash involving a pickup truck and a motorcycle on Ocean Boulevard in the vicinity of Lawrence Street in Seabrook.