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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.
In Charles Doane’s book, The Boy Who Fell to Shore: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Thor Tangvald, Latah Books, he explores the life and circumstances of Thomas Tangvald, son of famed bluewater sailor Peter Tangvald. Theirs is a life unlike most, lived on the sea in wooden boats without electricity or any means of communication.
Adam Finkel’s concern over the ramifications of the Dobbs decision of the US Supreme Court regarding In Vitro Fertilization has started to consume his time because he is concerned that it may be the next target of the fundamentalist forces that have gained control of the Court.
Voting with Kurt Wuelper in favor if the bill were Republican Reps. Louise Andrus, R-Salisbury, Dawn Johnson, R-Laconia, Diane Kelley, R-Temple, Mark McLean, R-Manchester, Troy Merner, R-Lancaster, and Mike Sylvia, R-Belmont.
“I have seen firsthand how hard Tom works for the people of New Hampshire — whether it was the critical role he played in expanding Medicaid or our work together to help ensure clean drinking water for Granite Staters. On issues from protecting a woman’s fundamental freedom to lowering costs, Granite Staters can trust Tom to deliver for them and that is why I am proud to endorse him,” said U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H.
A federal court has ordered a North Conway restaurant to pay a total of $148,128 – $74,064 in tips and back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages – after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the employers kept workers’ tips illegally and failed to pay them overtime wages when required by law.
While preliminary assessment results were previously published in July at the state level only, the newly published data set provides information at the state, district, and school levels.
Federal grants totaling $8,339,865 are being awarded to four existing or recently approved public charter schools in New Hampshire and to four developing public charter schools in the process of seeking approval from the State Board of Education.
As they prepared to return to the negotiating table with hopes for a new union contract, striking Sysco drivers were joined by high profile Democrats at a support rally alongside Route 125 in Epping Monday morning.
My son Reed had a few hours to fish, so I asked him if he wanted to meet in Ossipee and drive to North Conway.
In this podcast, we will hear from Chuck Suma, the chief operating officer at Million Air. We will also hear from Dania Seigley and Roger Wiegley. Seigley has launched a petition drive to present opposition to the project.
When I “retired” from covering the State House six years ago, a young reporter asked me what had been the biggest change since 1990 when I first was there.
If you think energy efficiency is an imaginary friend, visit Durham and ask any middle school kid you happen to find.
Her songs went from the ordinary to the surreal; from the earnest sentimentality of Coal Miner’s Daughter to the casual brutality of Fist City, from the wry humor of The Pill to the Hopperesque sadness of Honkytonk Girl.
Corrections Commissioner Helen Hanks ordered a review of prison theatrical performances after InDepthNH.org questioned the way it handled a play this week starring an inmate imprisoned for trying to have a woman murdered.
Every week, staff at InDepthNH.org looks at the websites of more than 75 funeral homes in New Hampshire and choose some of our friends, relatives and neighbors to feature in this column. The people featured here passed away during the previous week and are chosen at random.
Budget writers Friday approved using $8.9 million in federal pandemic recovery money to prepare for a possible COVID-19 surge this winter.
Members of New Hampshire’s press corps were invited to Thursday night’s special event at the state prison in Concord, a play featuring Kyle Buffum, the man convicted of trying to have a woman murdered in a brutal attack.
On Thursday, Gov. Chris Sununu announced that the first of multiple electric vehicle charging station grant contracts, which will total approximately $4.6 million in grant awards, will come before the Executive Council next week.
There are currently 42 hospitalized patients being treated for COVID-19. In New Hampshire, since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 353,139 cases of COVID-19 diagnosed.
On behalf of Catholic Medical Center’s Board of Trustees, Chair Tim Riley announced Thursday that HortySpringer will conduct an independent, external review at CMC.
