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Distant Dome: Willfully and Knowingly Making a Mess of Public Education

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | June 7, 2025

If you watched the House session Thursday, you had to realize the message the Republican majority is sending on public education.

Related: Distant Dome: This Is How Democracy Dies

Op-Ed: Who are New Hampshire Republicans: Are they the company they keep?

“Well, we all are going to die” is the tone deaf quip Sen. Ernst had to offer last
week, in response to a constituent who expressed concern over how the
devastating cuts to Medicaid in the GOP budget plan will cause people to perish.

Gov. Ayotte Signs 19 Bills Into Law; Vetoes One

The Governor’s veto statement.

Carbon Sequestration, Sobriety Check Refusal Punishment Now Part of Parental Rights Bill

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.

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House Votes New Requirements for Absentee Voting
Education Freedom Accounts Expanded by House 
NH Senate Passes $15.7 Billion Budget Without Support from Democrats
Business & Economy

Foresters, Farmers Talk Trade and Tariff Impacts With U.S. Rep. Goodlander in Groveton

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | April 25, 2025

Maggie Goodlander, New Hampshire’s newly elected Democratic Congresswoman for District 2 was in the North Country Thursday taking notes as she met and heard from the agriculture and forestry community about the federal impacts they face for their small businesses.

Obituary

Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Former Somersworth Mayor Meserve

By Staff Report | April 25, 2025

The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.

News

Controversial Ex-Congressman Featured at Free State Conference in Concord

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | April 24, 2025

What do you call a former member of Congress once accused of illegal pro-Russian activity, who denies the 2020 presidential election results, and who took part in storming a police barrier during the Jan. 6 riots?

Courts & Corrections

YDC Survivor Maunsell Settles With State for $4.5 Million

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | April 24, 2025

Maunsell claims that she was raped dozens of times by Youth Development Services Unit staffer Victor Malavet starting in 2001 when she was 15.

News

Ayotte To Meet With Medicaid Supporters

By ARNIE ALPERT | April 24, 2025

Upwards of 150 people rallied outside the State House Thursday to support continued funding of Medicaid with no rate cuts, no premiums, and no work requirements. 

News

Fate of State Human Rights Commission Uncertain

By Katharine Webster | April 24, 2025

The fate of the state’s Commission for Human Rights is up in the air, with the House-passed budget eliminating all funding, Gov. Kelly Ayotte working to retain and reform it – and the Senate’s position unclear.

Business & Economy

House Trimmed Governor’s Capital Budget Plan by $11 Million

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | April 24, 2025

The Senate Capital Budget Committee this week begins work on the $132.5 million capital budget the House approved earlier this month.

Op-Ed: Downshifting is just another way to say property tax increase

By Cathy Ann Stacey and Margaret ML Byrnes | April 24, 2025

By downshifting costs to counties and municipalities, the House proposal risks devastating many services that our communities rely on, while also burdening local governments and taxpayers who can ill-afford any additional financial strain.

Education

Senate Bill Banning Trans Girls from Bathrooms and Sports Shelved for Now

By Katharine Webster | April 24, 2025

The aim of Senate Bill 268, according to its primary sponsor, Sen. Kevin Avard, R-Nashua, is to allow schools, businesses, sports facilities, prisons and other institutional settings to protect “women’s spaces” and privacy from trans girls and women, whom he described as “biological males,” without being sued for discrimination.

Arts and Entertainment

New Hampshire PBS is Nominated for Two Boston/New England Regional Emmys

By NH PBS | April 24, 2025

New Hampshire PBS is proud to announce that two WINDOWS TO THE WILD programs, Little Foot and Saving Our Shores, are both nominated for Emmys in the 48th Boston/New England Regional Emmy® Awards.

News

AG Identifies Trooper in Dover Shooting

By News Release | April 23, 2025

During that incident, Trooper Colin Burgess fired his service pistol five times, striking Ms. Infinjer in the shoulder area.

Business & Economy

Ayotte Opposes House Budget Cuts for Corrections

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | April 23, 2025

New Hampshire needs increased penalties for fentanyl dealers, Gov. Kelly Ayotte said, noting she supports a pair of bills making their way through the Republican-controlled Senate and House.

Business & Economy

Heated Debate on Transgender Health Care Prohibitions for Minors

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | April 23, 2025

“Children, and their doctors, and families deserve the best care,” Testerman said.

Business & Economy

Council Approves $5M More for YDC Abuse Settlement Fund

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org | April 23, 2025

The Executive Council approved $5 million more for the Youth Development Center Claims Administration & Settlement Fund for the 2025 fiscal year Wednesday.

Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Rally at NH State House Demands: Hands Off Medicaid!

By News Release | April 23, 2025

Medicaid is one of the most cost-effective investments NH can make—providing essential healthcare and long-term services at a fraction of the cost of institutional care.

Business & Economy

Cheshire Medical Center helps locally distribute opioid rescue kits

By News Release | April 22, 2025

Cheshire Medical Center, a member of Dartmouth Health, is helping increase access and awareness to naloxone by distributing opioid rescue kits to public organizations in the Greater Monadnock Region.

Education

Expanding Education Freedom Accounts Irresponsible, Committee Told

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org | April 22, 2025

New Hampshire cannot afford two school systems the Senate Education Committee was told at a public hearing on a bill that would remove any salary cap from the Education Freedom Account program Tuesday.

Politics

Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion

By Robert Faturechi, Propublica | April 22, 2025

After President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs earlier this month, the White House released a list of more than a thousand products that would be exempted.

Op-Ed

Blowin’ in the Wind: The New Hampshire Advantage – Rhetoric, Not Reality

By Michael Kitch | April 22, 2025

And it makes less sense now when a state with the ninth highest personal income per capita in the country can’t balance its budget without cutting $50 million from its University System, capping school budgets and trimming social services while giving a green light to gambling interests.

Courts & Corrections

NH Supreme Court Passes on Tulloch Sentencing in Dartmouth Professors’ Murders

By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org (InDepthNH.org) | April 21, 2025

Tulloch is behind bars for his role in the 2001 double-murder of Dartmouth professors Half Zantop, 62, and Susanne Zantop, 55.

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