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Opposition turned out for a bill that would prohibit any sanctuary cities or towns in the state and block local officials from preventing local law enforcement from cooperating and working with federal immigration authorities.
InDepthNH.org and VTDigger help to fill widening gaps in traditional news coverage, including a strong focus on northern-tier issues and events that often have statewide or regional impact.
“The President’s sweeping, indiscriminate tariffs that are driving costs through the roof also have dire national security and defense consequences.”
Attorney General John M. Formella announces that members of the Attorney General’s Office are responding to a report of an officer-involved shooting that occurred late this afternoon in Keene, New Hampshire.
John Harrigan’s View from Above the Notches: It came in a column I did for InDepthNH.org, “Iowa, Schmiowa,” in which I wrote that I was “number than a two-by-four about presidential politics.” The problem with that phrase is that “number,” as in “He’s number than a fencepost,” looks and reads just like “I tried to get her telephone number and she smacked me number than a dead cod.
UPDATE: The attorney general appealed a judge’s decision ordering the state to issue a medical marijuana ID card to Linda Horan – who has since died – after issuing them to Horan and other qualifying patients.
This election cycle is flush with outside spending. As of today, super PACs, social welfare 501(c)(4) groups, trade associations, unions, parties and others (corporations, individuals etc) have spent $203.4 million this cycle. By this time in 2014, they’d spent less than half that much, Center for Responsive Politics data show, and in 2012 the number was just $61.9 million.
Helping military members and their families is the object of a new endowment that is being helped by a sizable donation from a Portsmouth couple. The Dan and Renee Plummer Endowment Fund will provide support for New Hampshire service members who are battling addiction.
A while back, Congress voted to curb soaring compensation for corporate officers by limiting tax deductions. Here’s how it went wrong.
Roger Wood Podcast: University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Gerald Friedman likes what he sees in Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ economic growth plan, but he likes former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a candidate, too. Over 10 years, Friedman estimated under Sanders’ plan, the median income would increase $22,000 and 26 million jobs would be created. The unemployment rate would be 3.8 percent and the poverty rate would be cut in half, he said.
The state is appealing a judge’s decision ordering the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a medical marijuana ID card to Linda Horan so the labor activist – who has since died – could purchase cannabis in Maine.
A re-sentencing hearing for one of four killers who were imprisoned as teens for life without parole decades ago, two of them among the state’s most notorious murderers, has been scheduled for the fall.
U.S. presidential elections have become garish media spectacles. It is a bazaar of candidates, consultants, pundits, and assorted hucksters that lasts a full two years—half the length of an elected president’s term in office. Every four years, the American people endure by far the longest and most expensive election of any nation in the world—until the next one.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Thirty years into a life sentence for a rape conviction that was overturned Jan. 26, George D. Perrot was set free on his own recognizance on Wednesday at a bail hearing at Bristol County Superior Court in New Bedford.
In New Hampshire, the top five lobbying entities are: Northeast Utilities PLC, Comcast Corp., New Hampshire Home Builders Association, Select Management Resources and Reynolds American Inc., according to a Center For Public Integrity investigation.
Howling from the Mountain: There is nothing in the world like walking down a woodland trail with no apparent wolf sign only to see that on the return trip, wolves, hiding just off the trail, had tracked us and veered off when they sensed our return.
Financially speaking, Will Jawando, a former campaign staffer for President Obama, isn’t doing well in the crowded contest for Maryland’s 8th Congressional District seat. With just $357,000 raised as of Dec. 31, he trails the race’s top fundraiser, Kathleen Matthews, by more than a million dollars.
Donors to the nonprofit group Crossroads GPS, founded by Republican strategist Karl Rove, no longer have to worry about their identities being disclosed. After a five-year wait, the IRS has approved the organization’s application for tax-exempt status.
New Hampshire and Iowa set the stage for passionate voter participation during the nation’s first presidential primary and first presidential precinct caucuses.
Chalk it up to hotly contested nomination campaigns in both the Republican and Democratic parties.
There was a distinct lack of interest in voting in the Presidential primary this morning at Keene State College, but as the snow stopped and the sun warmed the campus, students showed more enthusiasm.
While voters headed to the polls in the nation’s first Presidential primary, Jim Splaine, the man who ensured it would continue to be number one, was in his usual place – outside in the February cold campaigning for his favorite candidate.
View from Above the Notches: The 1968 primary was in full swing, and I was number than a two-by-four about presidential politics. “Nixon’s in town,” growled editor Mike Shalhoup, handing me a battered twin-lens Rollei. “Go get a photo.”
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