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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.
By the time I bought my Times at LaPerle’s IGA, at around 4 p.m. if I was lucky – only six copies reached Colebrook – the news was already almost 10 hours old, and by the time I spread it out the next-morning it was 30 or so, older than wrapped fish.
This spring, an expensive federal rule takes effect unless a federal judge rules otherwise. The rule requires a monitoring device on each fishing boat that tracks the day’s catch. The device costs more than $600 a day to operate so the fishermen are not only limited in their catch, but are required to monitor it as well.
BREAKING THE CHAINS: And I remember who he was before the drugs stole him. I remember that little boy with blue eyes and curly, almost-white hair. And everything he put me and our family through fades away, if only for a fleeting moment.
ROGER’S RAMBLINGS: Roger Wood may have gone a bit off the deep end to remember a great singer/songwriter who turned up on his doorstep in Portsmouth one day, but who has since passed away. If you are old enough to remember the song “100 Pounds of Clay,” you will remember him right away. Roger Wood has never forgotten him.
On Sunday, the world’s biggest movie stars will once again be in the spotlight at Hollywood’s most prestigious awards ceremony. While they might be highly visible on the red carpet, though, very few would be in contention for statuettes when it comes to big political giving.
Internet entrepreneur and branding consultant Amy Ziff says she had to become a “weekend toxicologist” five years ago when she discovered her twins were allergic to diapers, baby wipes, creams and lotions.
Now, after some eight years heading up The Green Alliance, Ssrah Brown is moving on, or should we say, back to her passion … writing. Brown has written and produced for major networks including CNN, the BBC, NBC and Associated Press. She’s now writing for National Geographic’s “The Plate” food columns.
Paula Schulte couldn’t survive a cascade of medical mistakes. After that, her family couldn’t get accountability. This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. Over the course of her lifetime, Paula Schulte survived painful scoliosis that contorted her spine, a head injury that left her in a coma for weeks, and cancer that cost her part of a lung. What she couldn’t survive was 11 weeks in Florida hospitals.
College accreditors have come under scrutiny recently for allowing for-profit schools to collect billions in federal aid despite low graduation and high default rates.
Federal air marshals were arrested nearly 150 times between late 2002 and early 2012. Why did it take the Transportation Security Administration seven and a half years to release the data?
As FairWarning has reported, many safety experts say that for a modest cost — often $10,000 or less — bollards or other barriers can be installed that give customers, employees and pedestrians substantial protection from vehicles that otherwise might jump a curb and careen into a store.
U.S. Rep Scott was taking the side of an industry that has given him more than $72,000 since his election to the House in 2002.
Roger Wood and Mike Pomp shared fond stories about former Portsmouth Mayor Eileen Foley Tuesday morning at WTSN AM 1270.
Entrepreneur and venture capitalist Anis Uzzaman literally wrote the book on success in Silicon Valley. The CEO and co-founder of Fenox Venture Capital is the author of “Startup Bible: The Silicon Valley Way of Developing Success.”
But now the U.S. Department of Labor has thrown the book at his company.
Johnson & Johnson has suffered a major courtroom defeat in the first in a wave of lawsuits claiming that talc products marketed by the company for feminine hygiene use caused ovarian cancer.
Former Mayor Eileen Foley’s death at 97 has saddened city officials and residents in this “City of the Open Door.”
Lawrence Schlachter has seen medicine from inside the operating room and the courtroom. Lots of doctors care about patient safety, he says. “They’re just afraid to come out.”
Raise money they have: Candidates and their allied groups have collectively spent more than $700 million so far competing in the 2016 White House race.
Sarah’s View from the Borderlands: It is a strange time to be representing America abroad with so much international spotlight on the presidential election and gun violence, topics I am asked about wherever I go.
