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Four new reports examining educator pay and school funding from pre-K through college reveal that despite growth in educator pay last year, chronic problems plague educators, including low wages and a lack of professional respect.
From newborn health checks to providing care for the elderly at the Glencliff Home, to a potential loss of the state’s 50-year old family planning program, impacts of a House proposed budget got a Senate Finance hearing Monday.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office told InDepthNH.org that Ritzo settled the complaint brought by the Charitable Trust Unit last year, agreeing to pay $50,000 to the state.
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.
Neither the Navy nor the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has a comprehensive list of which ships went where during the Vietnam War. As a result, veterans themselves often have to prove their ships served in areas where Agent Orange was sprayed.
Companies are increasingly using pay-for-performance to get around a $1 million federal limit on tax deductions for executive compensation. This story was co-published with The Washington Post. Update, Mar. 4, 2016:The story has been revised to remove phrasing suggesting that restricted stock grants are not tax deductible unless they have a “no-upside” feature. That is not always the case.
The tragic lead poisoning of the Flint water supply in Michigan is a study in bureaucratic bungling, racial inequity and national media inattention. But the fallout from the crisis has obscured another lesson: There are consequences when those in power are able simply to circumvent the public will.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich put himself in the middle of a super PAC controversy when he appeared to admit to legally prohibited coordination between his campaign and New Day for America super-pac.
To little fanfare, the super PAC founded by liberal climate change activist Tom Steyer has amassed $13 million of the California billionaire’s own money this election cycle — so far. That outpaces the $9.3 million Steyer gave his outside group, Next Gen Climate Action Committee, by this point in 2014.
You have seen their brown panel trucks around your town, and often benefit from the packages they deliver in a timely fashion. But do you really know the men and women who go out in all kinds of weather – morning and night – to do their jobs?
The state has decided against arresting a woman for bringing her cell phone and balloons to take her son’s birthday photo last month in the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the State Prison for Men in Concord.
In recognition of Sunshine Week, a national initiative to promote open government, the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications and New England First Amendment Coalition will present a discussion concerning the key to open government in New Hampshire — the state Right-to-Know Law.
PART 1: Adverse events are commonly called “never events” because they are never supposed to happen to patients in hospitals.
In New Hampshire, they include 29 serious, avoidable incidents in hospitals such as surgery on the wrong patient or body part, items left inside a patient, burns, falls, medication errors, assaults, sexual assaults and suicide. (see complete list below by hospital)
Tanya Lord of Nashua carries with her the heartbreaking understanding of the very worst that can happen when medical mistakes are made in hospitals.
Her son, Noah, died 17 years ago after having his tonsils removed at age 4. It was a Monday afternoon, June 14, 1999, when the family was living in Cherry Hill, N.J.
Patient Safety Awareness Week is March 13 to 19. Get started on becoming your own patient safety advocate by checking out these resources and websites.
Dr. Roger Resar offers the following tips to staying safe while in the hospital.
InDepthNH.org Series on Medical Errors Part 2: There hasn’t been much improvement in reducing adverse events in hospitals across the country despite serious and well-intentioned efforts, according to Dr. Roger Resar. “Why is that? It’s because we’re not focusing on some of the fundamental problems.”
Calling it critical legislation, U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, has taken to the Senate floor to call for passage of the Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act.
The financing of candidates’ campaigns has become a central theme of the primaries, although — aside from Trump’s truth-adjacent claims that he is self-financing his bid — Republicans mention the topic significantly less often than do Democrats. We offer this analysis of the veracity of statements by various candidates aiming for the White House.
After her death, the state attorney general wants the Supreme Court to vacate the order in Linda Horan’s medical cannabis ID case. Paul Twomey, who represented Horan, said the action “borders on stunning bureaucratic amorality.”
One in nine seniors reported being abused, neglected or exploited in the past 12 months and the rate of financial exploitation is extremely high with 1 in 20 older adults indicating some form of perceived financial mistreatment occurring in the recent past, according to a national survey.
Super PACs and dark money groups have spent more than $1.9 million to boost the campaigns of congressional incumbents with primaries today — Super Tuesday, for folks just in from another planet. And even as voters prepare to go to the polls, the donors of some of that money remain undisclosed.
Now, the question is, can the state support a rail line connecting with the existing MBTA commuter rail terminal in Lowell to Manchester. The House Transportation Committee may start answering that question as soon as Tuesday when it considers a $4 million dollar study.
