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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.
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital of Lebanon will take over operating the new Hampstead Hospital for children with mental health needs in June from Wellpath and the Executive Council approved more funding for farmers who experienced crop loss and extended funding to Community Action Programs across the state as part of the federal funds.
The state of New Hampshire’s responsibility for the hundreds of rapes and beatings David Meehan suffered while a teen in state custody is more than proven, and the state cannot get out from under the $38 million verdict, yet, Rockingham Superior Court Judge Andrew Schulman ruled this week.
Kyle Hendrickson, 26, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Samantha Elliott to 37 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release.
The plaintiffs argued that when he was in the Attorney General’s Office he participated in both the trial and the appeal of the Claremont education funding case, and represented the state when attempting to extend the deadlines set in the Claremont II decision.
The civil complaint alleges that Mr. Rounds’s conduct constituted three separate threats of unlawful force or violence designed to coerce or terrorize the alleged victims, by placing the victims in fear of harm, and two separate acts of using physical force or violence.
“Kids are on the ballot, whether you know it or not,” Gleason said to introduce the discussion. “Kids don’t have to be voters to be central and important to the race.”
At the age of 46, after decades of protest and action, Flynn joined the Communist Party while the group was campaigning against fascism and promoting a “popular front” in support of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.
A father from West Ossipee and another from Windham who have experienced life as parents of transgender teens spoke about the harm that could come if bills are passed related to restricting them from sports teams and certain medical care this week in the Senate.
Former Republican Rep. Troy Merner’s lawyer filed a motion to dismiss three of the four criminal charges against him Sunday related to serving in the New Hampshire House during the whole last session after moving out of his Lancaster District, which is prohibited under the state Constitution
Thomas Macholl’s complaint to the Executive Branch Ethics Committee claims Hanks initiated an internal investigation the same day he reported Eileen Meaney, DOC’s human resources director, for violating department policy with a selfie she took at a memorial service for a dead officer.
Ayotte answered questions about New Hampshire’s education, childcare system, and youth mental health crisis, all while giving a nod to Gov. Chris Sununu’s policies and prioritizing strong connections with businesses.
Between July 2020 and July 2022, Bye and Lapointe stole a combined $41,606.62 from the New Hampshire Medicaid program by submitting fraudulent claims for mileage reimbursement as part of the Family and Friends Mileage Reimbursement Program.
On Saturday, the Granite Gambit Chess Festival inspired 50 New Hampshire students in grades K-12 at Memorial High School in Manchester at the the Granite Gambit Chess Festival.
My mom used those hands for everything – bathing children, changing diapers, braiding hair, cooking, cleaning, knitting, rosary praying, phone cradling, admonishing, writing.
After June 4, voters will not be able to change their party affiliation until after the State Primary.
You could call it hypocrisy instead of misinformation, but no one can deny the federal money flowing into the states due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the infrastructure act has been extraordinary over the past couple of years.
Five New Hampshire supporters of an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza were arrested late Friday afternoon when they refused to leave U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas’ Dover office, where they had been sitting quietly for about three hours.
Collecting can be an addiction. The first item that I remember collecting were Topps baseball cards when I was six or seven.
Former state Rep. Troy Merner’s criminal case relative to serving in the state House of Representatives is still pending, but in the interim the attorney general disclosed this week that a second House member apparently served for several months after moving out of his district.
At a time when the Education sector is increasingly politicized, the issue of representation within school systems is more pertinent than ever.