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Joyful Musings: Yay, Here Comes May
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Happy end o’ March and April, Joyful Musers. And as my 62nd year is arriving soon, I’m going to share with you 62 things that I joyfully muse upon in this life.
‘I came to love jazz through Gene Krupa’
My mother bought me a couple of his albums on the Verve and MGM labels. Wow! I was completely captivated.
Editorial: Don’t Let Trump Kill News and Democracy
Donald Trump may have been elected President, but he is really a dictator out to destroy all legitimate news outlets so you won’t know the truth and he and Elon can do whatever they want.
Distant Dome: April Revenues Will Signal Where Senate Budget Is Headed
In less than a week, you will either hear shouts of joy or moans from Senate budget writers.
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Free Staters Meet in Concord for Annual Confab
USNH, Cultural Resources and Justice Department Seek Fund Restoration
New Hampshire’s public media is here for you – be here for public media
Environment & Science
NH Expands Area for PFOA Private Well Testing
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The state announced new and updated drinking water well test results for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) in Litchfield, Manchester and Merrimack, New Hampshire, and that the private-well water testing area is being expanded from a 1-mile to a 1.5-mile radius from the Saint-Gobain facility in Merrimack.
Ayotte Pushes Equal Pay for Women
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U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, is continuing to push for passage of her legislation to combat gender-based pay discrimination. This as Equal Pay Day was observed Tuesday.
NH Fish and Game Withdraws Bobcat Season
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The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department has withdrawn the proposed administrative rule regarding a limited bobcat season.
Deerfield Couple: Northern Pass Substation Too Close to Their Back Yard
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The proposed 192-mile Northern Pass transmission line to bring Hydro-Quebec’s energy from plants in Canada to Pittsburg then south to Deerfield ends way too close to home for Phil and Joan Bilodeau.
Politics
Best Reporting on Cruz, Clinton and Trump Through the Years
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ProPublica took a look back at the careers of Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as seen through accountability stories and other in-depth reports.
Meet the Panama Papers Editor Who Handled 376 Reporters in 80 Countries
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As the Panama Papers continue to embarrass leaders across continents, one thought has kept occurring to me: How the hell did the organizers pull it off? I mean, how did they corral hundreds of reporters? How did they make sense of so many documents? And, most importantly, how did they stay sane during it all? So I spoke with Marina Walker Guevara, who helped shepherd the project.
OSHA Accused of Retaliating Against One of its Own Investigators
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Darrell Whitman, in a whistleblower claim filed last week with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, charges that the San Francisco regional office of OSHA’s Whistleblower Protection Program routinely dumped legitimate complaints.
UPDATE: Sugarhouses, Northern Pass and New InDepthNH.org Page
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Site Evaluation Committee meets today, April 12, on Northern Pass from 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM. Hearing on Pending Motions at Loon Mountain
Resort, 60 Loon Mountain Road, Lincoln.
Roger Wood Indepth: New Rule Protects Retirement Savings
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Roger Wood podcast helps you answer this question. How do you know that your financial advisers are putting your interests over their own? A new fiduciary rule just finalized by the U.S. Department of Labor is expected to address that.
Court Vacates Deceased Activist’s Marijuana ID Order, But Nothing Changes
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Paul Twomey: “Linda (Horan) got the ID card and used it in Maine and she fought for all the other patients and they got their cards. It’s time to declare victory and go home.”
Pam Smart’s Mom Blasts Judge’s Order Releasing Gun That Killed Gregg Smart
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Linda Wojas: “Please be advised that there are not one, but two, ‘families suffering to this day.’ My family, as well as the Smart family, suffer to this day. My daughter has been imprisoned for twenty-six years for a crime she did not commit.”
criminal justice
Evidence of Police Dishonesty Leads to Overturned Convictions nationally
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Editor’s note: This story by Nancy West was sponsored by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and first published by VTDigger on July 19. West founded the New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism, which launched its news website InDepthNH.org on Sept. 1.
Maybe Debra Jean Milke masterminded the murder of her tow-haired son Christopher in Phoenix just befyore Christmas 1989 to collect the 4-year-old’s $5,000 life insurance policy.
Or maybe – as Milke has insisted all along – she was just the innocent victim of a corrupt cop with a proven pattern of lying who was out to win a conviction.
Air Force To Fund Cleanup of Contaminated Wells at Pease
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The city of Portsmouth is moving forward with mitigation of the contaminants in three wells located at Pease International Tradeport, which are all polluted at some level with perflurochemical compounds, PFC’s.
Environment & Science
Town of Milan Acquires 265 Acres for Community Forest
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The town of Milan has bought land to begin creating a community forest that will provide the town with income through sustainable timber harvesting, as well as places for local residents to hike, hunt, fish and enjoy the outdoors.
Environment & Science
Opponents Consider Court Action After Mount Sunapee Expansion Approved
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The Friends of Mount Sunapee say they will do whatever it takes to stop Mount Sunapee expansion after the Executive Council approved the controversial plan in a 3-1 vote on Wednesday.
Committee To Reconsider Collecting DNA From Civilly Committed Patients
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The full House voted Wednesday to send a bill back to committee that would have expanded DNA collection to include civilly committed patients who haven’t committed a crime.
Council Approves Little as Banking Commissioner By 3-2 Vote
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The Executive Council confirmed Republican Sen. Jerry Little, R-Weare, as Banking Commissioner on Wednesday with the three Republican councilors voting for him and two Democrats voting against him.
‘It’s On Us’: End Sexual Violence on College Campuses in New Hampshire
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The New Hampshire Violence Against Women Campus Consortium is excited to announce its latest project: joining the call put forward in the “It’s On Us” initiative, an awareness campaign to help put an end to sexual violence on college campuses.