Bike Week
Bike Week Roars Laconia in Just 17 Days
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The roar returns to the state June 12-20 when the 98th Bike Week is held with many new events and venues this year outdoors including a count-down to the largest expected gathering in 2023.
Op-Ed: Racism in NH?
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I hate to even raise the topic of racism. I know how painful it is to be wrongly accused.
Bill Prohibiting Sanctuary Cities Another Blow to Local Control, Committee Told
Opposition turned out for a bill that would prohibit any sanctuary cities or towns in the state and block local officials from preventing local law enforcement from cooperating and working with federal immigration authorities.
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InDepthNH.org and VTDigger help to fill widening gaps in traditional news coverage, including a strong focus on northern-tier issues and events that often have statewide or regional impact.
Shaheen: Trump’s First 100 Days Marred by Chaos, High Costs and Global Retreat
“The President’s sweeping, indiscriminate tariffs that are driving costs through the roof also have dire national security and defense consequences.”
More Headlines
AG: Man Hospitalized After Police-Involved Shooting
Senate Budget Leader Calls for Meeting Between DCYF and Child Advocate
NH Continues to Shift Education Funding to Local Property Taxpayers
News
Dems: No Room for ‘Racism Lite’ In Divisive Concepts Legislation
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The “divisive concepts” education language now in a budget bill is expected to be amended by Republican leadership Wednesday, but there is no “Racism Lite” language that will be welcome by at least two state senators.
Uncategorized
House Committee Votes To Exempt PPP Grants from Business Taxes
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After spending a month parsing the details of a bill to exempt Paycheck Protection Program grants from business profits tax liability, the House Ways and Means Committee Tuesday voted unanimously to approve the unamended bill.
Business & Economy
Senate Budget Writers Fund Medicaid But Not Childcare
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The Senate Finance Committee decided to use tens of millions of dollars in Health and Human Services money that will not be spent this year to increase funding for the Medicaid managed care program in the next biennium.
Courts & Corrections
AG Opens Investigation Into White Supremacist Group
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New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella is taking action after members of a white supremacist group made online threats against state Rep. Manny Espitia, D-Nashua.
COVID-19
52 New COVID-19 Cases, 48 In Hospital Monday
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The state Department if Health and Human Services announced 52 new positive test results for COVID-19 and no new deaths Monday.
Feature
Op-Ed: Clean energy technologies can benefit us – but we need a strategy
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The technologies available to New Hampshire a decade ago are nothing like those we can wield today.
Uncategorized
Leaving Home
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At the age of 17, I left home after graduating from high school in 1972. The urgency was the search for something.
Feature
Op-Ed: King’s Dream was Rooted in Analysis of Systemic Racism
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At a pro-HB 544 rally held at the State House in April, one person reportedly carried a sign reading, “Teach MLK not CRT.”
COVID-19
79 New COVID-19 Cases, 54 In Hospital Sunday
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The state Department of Health and Human Services announced 79 new positive test results for COVID-19 and no new deaths Sunday.
Manchester Author’s Latest Novel Is a Must Read
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The Hunter of Talyashevka is a most interesting read. It is basically a story of the history of the Jewish faith within the confines of Russia in 1926.
Education
Special Ride For Nashua Boy, 7, Winner Of ‘Let’s Go Places’ Reading Contest
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NASHUA, NH – A Nashua 7-year-old boy rode to school in style, including lights flashing and sirens sounding letting everyone know he was arriving.
Feature
NH Legislature About To Enter Tough Final Stretch
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The 2021 legislative session in its final stages and about to enter the “Let’s make a deal” segment.
White Supremacists Threaten Nashua State Representative
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A group of white supremacists is threatening a Nashua state representative, and now there are calls for the New Hampshire Attorney General to investigate the hate group.
COVID-19
3 Deaths, 109 New COVID-19 Cases Saturday
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On Saturday, the state Department of Health and Human Services announced 109 new positive test results for COVID-19 and three deaths.
Feature
‘Pomp and Circumstances One of My Favorite Songs’
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I tear up from start to finish and muse joyfully when I think of the celebration of time, effort, joy.
Business & Economy
Raise Up NH To Sununu: Back the Federal Wage Act, Don’t Cut Unemployment
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Raise Up NH Coalition is urging Governor Sununu to support raising the minimum wage and stop short-term gimmick to solve the perceived challenges for NH employers for filling job vacancies, especially in the low-wage sectors of the economy.
Biostimulants
Charter Schools Trigger Partisan Bickering In Senate
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Something must be in the water in Concord as the first debate of the day for the Senate Thursday turned heated and partisan causing Senate President Chuck Morse to call for a five-minute recess to calm the waters and move the bill to next week’s calendar.
COVID-19
1 Death, 149 New COVID-19 Cases Thursday
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The state Department of Health and Human Services nnounced 149 new positive test results for COVID-19 and one death Thursday.
Casella Waste
Senate Kills Bill To Create Two-Mile Buffer Between State Parks and Landfills
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The Senate killed the hopes of those fighting a proposed landfill in Dalton when it voted to kill a bill that would require a two-mile buffer around state parks.