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Nearly 300 people gathered at the Grappone Conference Center here Friday for the start of the 2025 NH Liberty Forum. The annual two-day event, which concludes Saturday, is associated with the Free State Project (FSP), a movement that began 24 years ago.
Higher education leaders went to the Senate Finance Committee Friday to request budget funding be restored to the governor’s recommended level for the next two years and that they reject the 30 percent cut by the House calling it “unsustainable.”
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The letter to RFK Jr. follows Shaheen’s visit to Community Action Partnership Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties’ (CAPHR) Opportunity Center in Manchester where she highlighted the importance of Head Start to Granite State working families.
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.
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One can only read so many books and magazines. An angler can only play with their rods, reels and fly boxes so many times. I was going stir crazy.
Cuts to spending that could lead to layoffs July 1 and include the elimination of all tourism promotion funding by the state as well as money for the Arts Council were explained to the entire House Finance Committee during a meeting Monday.
At this time last year, Chatila’s Bakery employed 15 individuals at its wholesale facility to manage order fulfillment, but due to the economic challenges including those posed by tariffs, the bakery has reduced its workforce to just two employees.
With multiple polls showing housing as the top issue in New Hampshire by a wide margin, it’s no shock that the current legislative session is awash with proposals ostensibly aimed at addressing the state’s housing crisis.
Andru Volinsky has documented the arguments that have shaped his public life in a new book that will go on sale April 1, “The Last Bake Sale, The Fight for Fair School Funding.”
Before the turn of the Century and even a little into this one New Hampshire’s motto was the same as it is today, Live Free or Die, but a slight tweak would better describe Granite Staters’ prevailing attitude as Live and Let Live.
Attorney General John M. Formella and Manchester Police Chief Peter A. Marr announce that a suspicious death investigation is underway following the discovery of a deceased newborn in the area of Pine Island Pond on the afternoon of Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Manchester, New Hampshire.
The procedural order issued on March 26 by (and here’s the tipoff that news is involved) just one of the three members of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). Ninety-nine point nine times out of 100, orders of the PUC are signed by all three commissioners.
Lost amid the flurry of proposed budget cuts coming out of Concord is a proposal to slash the Department of Corrections funding to levels considered unsafe by department administration.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
Support for President Trump’s handling of the economy has fallen since February. A majority disapprove of Trump’s use of tariffs and most see Canada and Mexico, two targets of Trump’s tariffs, as allies or friends of the United States.
The state primary could be moved from the second Tuesday in September to the second Tuesday in June after Senate Bill 222 cleared the Senate on a voice vote.
The House approved a bill that would allow parents to enroll their child in any public school in the state.
The House Thursday voted to make itself the arbitrator for new vaccines for school children.
Lawmakers were told the direction of the current legislature on transgender issues have families wondering if they are safe in the state and no longer recognize the state where they grew up.
Four Granite State educators have been chosen as the New Hampshire 2025 state finalists for the prestigious Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST).
The Republican culture war over public education was on full display Wednesday in the House.
The second-degree murder trial of former Corrections Officer Matthew Millar is now on hold after it came to light the Department of Corrections did not turn over all the evidence.