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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.
The House once again voted to expand the Education Freedom Account program, opening it to any New Hampshire child regardless of his or her parents’ income.
The new names released are: Concord Police Officer Brian Neal, Bath Police Officer Dennis MacKay, Dover Police Officer Killian Kendrup, Claremont Police Officer Justin Leach, and Dover Police Officer James Yeradi.
Attorney General John Formella is investigating a racist email state Rep. Charlotte DiLorenzo, D-Newmarket, received from Ryan Murdough, who says he is the founder and president of a group called the New England White Network.
The Secretary of State has confirmed with the town clerk of Columbia that Senator Hassan only received 106 votes on election night.
The group seeks to block rate setting for communities with negative education property tax rates or that retain excess revenue from the tax.
My dad was in the occupation of Japan, the Korean War, the Bay of Pigs and Viet Nam twice. He was injured a number of times and said that he should have earned three Purple Hearts. That was when Lieutenant General Chesty Puller was in charge, and he didn’t award many.
And here we are, another midterm election over and I muse joyfully on the action taken by so many people around our beautiful country. We voted. We canvassed. We spoke our truth. We are recommitted to democracy.
In the Executive Council, state Senate and state House races, Democratic candidates received more votes than their Republican counterparts, but will still be in the minority.
Robert Frese was charged with criminal defamation after he placed an anonymous comment online calling a retiring Exeter police officer “’the dirtiest[,] most corrupt cop [Frese] ha[d] ever had the displeasure of knowing’ and that the officer’s daughter was a prostitute.”
Antique cars, military vehicles, bands, and several groups of veterans marched on Elm Street on Friday stopping in front of City Hall at 11:11 a.m. on Veterans Day.
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Joined by more than 60 Democratic lawmakers, longtime Penacook Representative and former Speaker of the New Hampshire House Steve Shurtleff has announced his bid to regain the Speaker’s podium for the 2022-2024 session. The vote to nominate a Speaker will take place at the Democratic Caucus meeting on November 17, 2022.
History is, of course, about the past, but we study it to understand the present. In the present, New Hampshire has a Nazi problem.
In the fall of 1976 I can recall stopping the car at the side of the road in the midst of the winter’s first snowfall at the peak of foliage season. I jumped out, tears streaming down my face, and ran to catch a snowflake on my tongue, as the swirling colors of the autumn storm were brushed into my soul from a pallet in the hands of grandmother earth.
Did Donald Trump sabotage the Republican party in this election? And did successful gerrymandering in New Hampshire by the Republicans changing districts to favor themselves help Republicans in the state Senate election?
There are currently 27 hospitalized patients being treated for COVID-19. In New Hampshire, since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 359,019 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.
The two lead prosecutors on the Youth Development Center criminal case, including the head of the state Task Force charged with investigating the decades of physical and sexual abuse, are off the case after both filed notices with the court in recent days.
The treasure of data is up on the web and it appears – if you like to mine political tidbits – that all sorts of interesting things happened Tuesday.
Justice Lawrence MacLeod said Wednesday it was not apparent to him that he could have a potential or perceived conflict until after a hearing Friday on the plaintiffs’ request for an injunction to block the state from setting the rate for the Statewide Education Property Tax.
Today, the Republican majority caucus met and nominated Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, to be the next Senate President.
Joseph R. Nolan, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of Eversource, received nearly $6.5 million in compensation last year. Or, at least, so says the 2022 annual proxy statement of the region’s biggest utility empire.
