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If you watched the House session Thursday, you had to realize the message the Republican majority is sending on public education.
“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.
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.
Republicans on the House Education Committee voted not to recommend HB 1680 for further legislation. The bill follows a year-long effort by the school funding commission to study the effects of the state’s school funding scheme and recommend solutions. Following the vote, Ranking Member on the House Education Committee Rep. Mel Myler, D-Contoocook, released the following statement:
The biological father of Harmony Montgomery, 5, of Manchester, has been charged in her death with the attorney general alleging he struck her repeatedly in the head with his closed fist, mutilated her body, and tampered with witnesses or informants in an attempt to cover up the murder in 2019.
Citizens of the United States own nearly all of Mount Washington, home to the largest tract of alpine tundra east of the Mississippi River. New Hampshire citizens own the 60-acre state park at its summit. The Cog Railway and the Auto Road own thin strips from the mountain’s base to its summit.
“Sununu vetoed bipartisan measures that would have expanded our energy options while taking contributions from utility companies, failed to spend $19 million in rental assistance during a housing crisis, and now has lost additional funds because he failed to manage the program appropriately. Winter is approaching, and Granite Staters will be paying the price for Chris Sununu’s mismanagement,” Sherman said.
From abortions to drinking water standards, there is something for everyone to vote for or against.
If you’ve not seen political signs along the side of the roads, chances are, you’ve been stuck inside.
Given the announcement by the U.S. Treasury that New Hampshire will not receive any additional resources to continue its Emergency Rental Assistance program beyond December 29, 2022, New Hampshire Housing is announcing a pause to incoming applications under the NH Emergency Rental Assistance Program (NHERAP).
New Hampshire is seeing an increase in hospitalizations due to COVID-19 and an increase in the Community Levels tracked by the CDC, with two counties Carroll and Belknap showing high levels Friday. Two weeks ago, all New Hampshire counties had low Community Levels.
How will we in New Hampshire approach our urgent environmental challenges over the next few years?
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In this episode Don Kreis shares a whimsical story about how net metering began as well as a brief primer on the technology and why it is so important now that consumers consider the advantages of adding solar to their homes and businesses in light of skyrocketing electric rates.
It might be a small town, but Bradford has a big commitment to recycling waste. In fact Lois Kilnap, who manages the mandatory program as well as the entire transfer station, told Roger Wood that most of the residents in a town of 2,200 people are on board with it. She herself got an early introduction to the value of it in earlier jobs.
Twenty days into a strike against Sysco, a giant food wholesaler, unionized drivers approved a new five-year contract and declared victory Thursday evening.
The 26-year-old man charged with the April 18 homicides of Stephen and Djeswende Reid in Concord waived extradition in a Vermont court Thursday and will return to New Hampshire to face two second-degree murder charges.
The state says it has found potentially millions of documents related to the rape and abuse of children who were incarcerated at the Sununu Youth Services Center, possibly adding months of delay to the criminal trials.
Congressional District 1 candidate Karoline Leavitt, a Republican, and Democratic U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas disagreed on approaches to just about every challenge and issue facing the nation when they squared off in a debate Thursday sponsored by the Mount Washington Valley Economic Council.
Attorney General John M. Formella announced Wednesday that an arrest warrant has been signed charging Logan Levar Clegg, 26, most recently of South Burlington, Vt., with two counts of second-degree murder for causing the deaths of Stephen and Djeswende Reid by shooting them multiple times on April 18 in Concord.
The former Claremont police officer who is running to be a state Representative could soon have his police internal affairs record made public.
Under state law, New Hampshire businesses assessed for the state unemployment trust will receive a 30 percent reduction in their premiums.
Protesters came to the State House Wednesday to support a contract to teach sex education to at-risk youths in Manchester and Claremont but it did not get off the table with a majority of the Republican-controlled council saying they were hearing from parents concerned about their rights.
