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Who Knew a Bunch of Motorcyclists Could Be So Important to NH’s Economy?
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These visitors will substantially broaden New Hampshire’s peak visitation period while injecting more than $100 million into the state’s economy.
Shaheen Leads Effort To Protect Connecticut River Watershed
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U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, is leading the New England Senate delegation in reintroducing a bill that will promote and fund restoration and protection efforts in the five-state Connecticut River Watershed.
Two Changes to Default Budgets Proposed
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.
Senate Finance Rejects Governor’s Office Request To Restore $100,000 To Its Budget
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.
Forest Carbon Capture Bill Headed To Moratorium and Study
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.
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The world may soon be awash in advanced, lethal drones
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A report for the Joint Chiefs of Staff warns that rapidly proliferating large military drones will give enemies vastly more data and firepower.
Business & Economy
Facebook’s Screening for Political Ads Nabs News Sites Instead of Politicians
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The social network is letting some political ads slip through without the required verification, while blocking promotional posts by news organizations, which are pushing back.
Courts & Corrections
Andrew Butler May Be Heading Home To Hollis Soon
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CONCORD – The young Hollis man whose story spurred opposition to holding mentally ill patients who haven’t committed a crime at the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison has been transferred back to the state’s psychiatric hospital.
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Northern Pass’ Replacement Concludes Negotiations With Mass. Clean Energy Project
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The clean energy transmission project that replaced Northern Pass when it was turned down by New Hampshire regulators has reached agreement with Massachusetts electric distributors on a 20-year contract to provide 1,200 megawatts of renewable energy.
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Consumer Advocate: PUC Should Close Two Cases Eversource Wants Revisited
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CONCORD — The state consumer advocate wants the Public Utilities Commission to close two cases Eversource claims should be revisited in light of a recent New Hampshire Supreme Court ruling.
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Hydro-Quebec and Natural Gas Back On Eversource Table
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CONCORD — Eversource informed the Public Utilities Commission Monday that it will file a revised proposal to purchase natural gas capacity from the Access Northeast proposed pipeline. Eversource also asked regulators to vacate their order denying a Power Purchase Agreement with Hydro-Quebec included in the Northern Pass Transmission proposal.
Energy
Regulators Say No To Northern Pass on Keeping Report Confidential
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The information includes a pricing summary as well as detailed costs components for the underground sections of the proposed $1.6 billion, 192-mile transmission line from Pittsburg to Deerfield.
NH District 1 Congressional Candidate: Meet Rep. Mindi Messmer of Rye
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Mindi Messmer: My campaign is focused on making sure that my special interest is the people of New Hampshire – all PEOPLE no PACs. We can make the change we want in Washington – but we must do it together.
Feature
June Is Filled With Pomp, Circumstance and Oh, Those At-Home Swimsuits
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I look like a cross between Kevin on “The Office” and Aunt Bee in this bathing suit; it’s simply a piece of fabric to throw on when I am done. Done. Done.
Energy
New Los Alamos Contractor Includes Same Manager Fired for Safety Problems
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The Department of Energy said it would seek new leadership for Los Alamos National Laboratory. But the University of California is still there, even after mismanagement caused it to lose its contract to run the lab — twice. The contract could be worth upward of $25 billion over the next decade, with hundreds of millions of dollars more in performance-based bonus fees.
OPINION: Gov. Sununu’s Ugly History on LGBTQ Rights
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OPINION: Governor Sununu signed HB 1319, a transgender rights bill that was passed with unanimous support by New Hampshire Democrats while a majority of New Hampshire Republicans voted to defeat it.
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Fathers and Sons and Fishing
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There are two passions that my father and I share, reading and fishing. It is the latter that brings us the closest.
News
Sununu Youth Services Center Director Brady Serafin Resigns
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The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services announces the resignation of Brady Serafin, Director of Operations of the Sununu Youth Services Center and Chief of the Bureau of Family, Community, and Program Supports in the Division for Children, Youth and Families.
Milan Mom Fights To Keep Guardianship Of Son At Secure Psychiatric Unit
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Nancy Heath of Milan is fighting to keep legal guardianship of her adult son, Anthony Heath, who has been locked up for about two years in the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison in Concord after being found not competent to stand trial.
Feature
Personal Space and Travel: A Cultural War in Miniature
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NH Travel Guru: Years ago, I boarded a Greyhound Bus in New Orleans, bound for Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The young child seated behind me had a terrible cold, which manifested itself in the form of a loud, moist cough. And then …
Feature
Sen. D’Allesandro: NH Seized Healthcare Opportunities
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OPINION: Our state made a difference for local residents.
Dems Call It ‘Disturbing’ After AG Clears Sen. Sanborn Of Job, Cash To Silence Intern Allegation
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CONCORD – Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald on Tuesday cleared state Senator and Congressional candidate Andy Sanborn of allegations that a Senate intern received a job and cash in exchange for silence about an inappropriate comment Sanborn made to the intern in 2013.
Business & Economy
New EPA Superfund Chief Meets with Seacoast Residents on Coakley Landfill
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The meeting came only days before the executive committee of the Coakley Landfill Group meets in Portsmouth on June 7th, the first such meeting open to the public, and only weeks before an EPA Region 1 Summit on the agency’s strategic plan to address PFAS on June 25th-26th at the Pease Tradeport in Portsmouth.
Distant Dome
Dome Advice For Molly Robert, NH’s Gov. For A Day
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The competition had 100 contestants and the winner is Molly Robert, senior class president of Kennett High School in Conway, plus a bit of the history of woman power in New Hampshire.