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A New Hampshire doctor pleaded guilty today to unlawfully distributing a controlled substance. This is the first conviction of a doctor in the District of New Hampshire from a joint investigation by the New England Strike Force and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Two bills that would change the default budget process for Senate Bill 2 towns and school districts had different fates before the Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs Committee Tuesday.
The Department of Corrections will go without a secretary and a request to restore $100,000 in the governor’s budget was rejected as the Senate Finance Committee gets to work this week on recommendations to the full Senate for a new budget in tough economic times.
A bill that would have extended the state’s timber tax to properties enrolled in carbon sequestration programs has been changed by a Senate committee to a study committee and moratorium.
The fates of affirmative action and what is sometimes called “white affirmative action” have long been intertwined. After the University of California, the University of Georgia and Texas A&M stopped using racial preferences, they discontinued preferences for alumni children as well.
“I’ll be the happiest woman in the world,” said Jimena’s mother, Cindy Madrid, as she prepared for the moment. “It’s been very painful to be apart.”
California. That place way over there – the one that’s warm, that seems so hip, that does not seem to have any leftover Pilgrims or people who grill with chAHcoal. I’m sad.
COLUMBIA – The Great North Woods Center for the Arts, which has brought some 500 shows to the North Country over the past 10 years, has purchased historic property which for years was part of the Our Lady of Grace Shrine.
This new law states that meeting minutes must now include the names of the members who made or seconded each motion.
“We believe that democracy is threatened without a vibrant press and we will do our part to fully inform people and encourage civil conversation and civic engagement.”
The signs caution that if you carry a phone in a pocket or tucked into a bra when the device is on, “you may exceed the federal guidelines for exposure’’ to radiofrequency radiation.
CONCORD – Three law enforcement names have been removed from New Hampshire’s secretive list of 171 officers with credibility, excessive force or mental instability issues since Attorney General Gordon MacDonald announced the new removal protocol on April 30.
The state has plenty of money to spend and has for the past four fiscal years, but lawmakers do not want to spend it. Instead they cut business taxes and filled the state’s saving account or rainy day fund.
The archive will preserve and document the story of the resistance to Northern Pass by “grassroots” citizens, as well as by conservation, environmental, recreational, and other non-governmental organizations, and by municipal and legislative groups.
I have neighbors in their sixties and seventies who no longer sit on the front porches of the houses in which they were born, because there is too much dust and noise from ATVs. The peace and quiet that attracted many second home owners to the region is gone, and it’s increasingly common to hear stories of people thinking of leaving. Even on lakes, people are selling.
Jimena Madrid riveted people around the world when her voice was captured on an audiotape after she was separated from her mother inside a Border Patrol detention facility. Three weeks later, reunification remains uncertain.
“The 50 Most Unforgettable Things You Have to Do Abroad Before You Die.” The author’s recommendations included such activities as a free-dive on a Caribbean shipwreck, a mountain bike ride down Bolivia’s no-rails Road of Death, and hiking with lungs burning to a Bhutanese monastery.
Alice Vartanian King, passed away on Saturday June 30, 2018. She was 70 years old.
The anniversary of the tornado hit me hard this year, and the news from the southern border haunts me. All those mothers, and all those children, who have lost everything and now have lost each other. Who is there for them? What are their nightmares made of?
Dick Tuck died last month. He was a minor political operative who worked for various Democrats back in the sixties and seventies. His specialty was at getting under Dick Nixon’s skin.
Cost-of-service rate treatment is exactly what we supposedly got away from by restructuring the electric industry to eliminate old-fashioned, vertically integrated utility monopolies. The parade of generators begging for a return to the good old days could well include facilities like Seabrook, Merrimack and Schiller stations.
The New England First Amendment Coalition mourns the loss of five staff members at the Capital Gazette community newspaper near Annapolis, Maryland, who were killed by a gunman last week in a senseless act of violence. We convey our utmost sympathies to the newspaper’s staff and to the families and friends of the victims.
Children of veterans that lost their lives in wars and are also residents of the state can obtain free tuition to the University System of New Hampshire colleges and universities and the Community College System of New Hampshire. There is also a stipend of up to $2,500 that can be contributed to the payment of room rent, board, books, and supplies.
MANCHESTER – Eversource says its study comparing potential methods for the Seacoast Reliability Project transmission line to cross Little Bay confirmed that burying it in the bay’s bottom sediment will be best.