Heat-Related Deaths of Children Left in Cars Rise in 2016 Spurring Warnings
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With the hottest months yet to come, 12 infants and toddlers already have died in unattended cars this year in the U.S.
Distant Dome: April Revenues Will Signal Where Senate Budget Is Headed
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In less than a week, you will either hear shouts of joy or moans from Senate budget writers.
Free Staters Meet in Concord for Annual Confab
Nearly 300 people gathered at the Grappone Conference Center here Friday for the start of the 2025 NH Liberty Forum. The annual two-day event, which concludes Saturday, is associated with the Free State Project (FSP), a movement that began 24 years ago.
USNH, Cultural Resources and Justice Department Seek Fund Restoration
Higher education leaders went to the Senate Finance Committee Friday to request budget funding be restored to the governor’s recommended level for the next two years and that they reject the 30 percent cut by the House calling it “unsustainable.”
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Shaheen Blasts Trump Attacks on Head Start, Demands RFK Jr. Immediately Release Funding, Reverse Firings
Foresters, Farmers Talk Trade and Tariff Impacts With U.S. Rep. Goodlander in Groveton
Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Former Somersworth Mayor Meserve
News Roundup from Around New Hampshire on June 16
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Lawmakers set to return today for drug bill vote and other news from around New Hampshire.
The Money Behind the Politics of Guns in NH and the Nation
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Check out how much money, if any, your elected officials and presidential candidates received from gun control and gun rights activists.
Shaheen Joins Filibuster On Preventing Gun Violence
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Sen. Shaheen called on Congress to work together to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous terrorists and criminals in the wake of the deadly Orlando mass shooting.
NH Center for Public Interest Journalism Is ‘Best of NH 2016 for Nonprofit News’
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New Hampshire Magazine: “And the New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism is very serious about its effort to generate valuable local news and investigative journalism in a publicly supported model.”
NH Dem Platform Draft Opposes Housing Non-Criminal Mentally Ill People in Prison
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Rep. Renny Cushing: “It is a small change but for those of us working to help end the criminalization of people with severe mental illness in our state, I think it is an important value statement.”
Seacoast Real Estate Is Sizzling as Summer Nears
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Available homes are few in some locations, especially at the coast, and the prices have rebounded from the 2008 financial debacle.
60,000 NH Adults Report Being Diagnosed With Prediabetes
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In NH: Prediabetes prevalence was 50% higher in non-whites than in whites, higher in
lowest household incomes and twice as common in overweight adults.
Roger Wood InDepth: Hospital Mergers Scrutinized in NH
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There has been a spate of hospital mergers or proposed acquisitions in New Hampshire.
Why Are Hate Crime Statistics So Poorly Tracked?
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that 40 percent of hate crime victims don’t report the crime to authorities.
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Ew. Guess Who’s in Town?
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Have you checked out Mike Marland’s Friday Flashbacks and his books of amazing editorial cartoons at Marlandcartoons.com?
Who Makes Sure Hospital Mergers Do No Harm? Almost Nobody.
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New Hampshire scored a D+ in a new MergerWatch.org report, which overall reveals woefully inadequate state oversight of hospital consolidation.
Monica Reads: ‘The First Salute’ Celebrates the Birth of Our Nation
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Monica Reads: If you love U.S. history, you will thoroughly enjoy this book.
Relay for LIfe: It’s Personal for Roger and Elaine Wood
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Roger Wood’s wife, Elaine, herself a cancer survivor, has walked in just about every relay held at track fields around the region.
Water Testing Cheats, Dangerous Constables and More in MuckReads
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Patchy reporting undercuts national hate crimes count and ProPublica’s other picks for the best investigative reporting last week from across the country.
Hard Money Still Matters, and Here’s Who’s Giving It
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Yes, we live in a gilded age of campaign finance, with billionaire donors forking over tens of millions of dollars to super PACs.
Push On For Dudley Dudley Portrait in Council Chambers
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Roger Wood: If the Park Street Foundation in Concord is successful, a portrait of former Executive Councilor Dudley Webster Dudley will be hanging in the council chambers.
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Sen. Warren Slams For-profit College Accreditor for ‘Appalling Record of Failure’
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Sen. Warren released a detailed report Friday on embattled for-profit accreditor, ACICS, urging the federal government to take “aggressive” action.
AFSC’s Arnie Alpert To Join Mexico Fact-Finding Trip
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Arnie Alpert, the longtime co-director of the American Friends Service Committee’s New Hampshire Program, will spend two weeks in Mexico with an AFSC delegation looking into the effects of U.S. policy, including arms sales, on human rights in Mexico.
Ayotte Presses TSA Official on Pease Safety, Screening
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Roger Wood in Depth monitored the most recent exchange between Sen. Kelly Ayotte and TSA Administrator Peter Effinger.