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Some Rude Lawmakers Seek To Conceal
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Mike Marland
Bill Prohibiting Sanctuary Cities Another Blow to Local Control, Committee Told
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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.
Local news matters: Nonprofit news outlets shed light on important stories in northern NH and VT
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.
Shaheen: Trump’s First 100 Days Marred by Chaos, High Costs and Global Retreat
“The President’s sweeping, indiscriminate tariffs that are driving costs through the roof also have dire national security and defense consequences.”
AG: Man Hospitalized After Police-Involved Shooting
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.
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Senate Budget Leader Calls for Meeting Between DCYF and Child Advocate
NH Continues to Shift Education Funding to Local Property Taxpayers
Health Care Cuts in House Budget Get Second Look in Senate Finance
CRP Calls On FCC to Include Cable, Satellite and Radio in Political Ad Filing
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Yesterday, the Center for Responsive Politics called on the Federal Communications Commission to vote in favor of expanding its current online repository of political ad data filed by stations around the country.
Scene from ‘Making a Murderer’ Echoes in Etan Patz Case
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Inflammatory pre-trial publicity was an issue in the Netflix series, and now a defense lawyer wants to make it an issue in New York’s famous missing child case.
Nonprofit Cops To Too Much Politicking, Sends IRS an IOU
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Oklahomans for a Conservative Future stands apart from most other dark money groups in a couple of ways. The first: its dedication to backing just one candidate, former Oklahoma House Speaker T.W. Shannon, a Republican who made an ultimately failed 2014 bid for a U.S. Senate seat.
Male Seeking Female: Looking for Ms. WillingNAble
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Single male unmated coyote will travel for companionship. Medium build, thick gray coat, athletic and proven hunter. Hopeless romantic and alpha wannabe seeks female as an equal. A real SNAG (Sensitive New Age Guy) for the right type.
Roger Wood on the History of Portsmouth’s African Burying Ground Memorial
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The year was 2003.
I was at the South Mill Playground in Portsmouth when I observed activity, including a hearse at the intersection of Chestnut and Court streets.
Mom’s Anxious Weeks Into Son’s Rehab for Heroin Addiction
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Last month, Michele helped launch Breaking the Chains telling her story about a mother’s struggles dealing with an adult son who is addicted to heroin. He was trying to detox at home. She got back in touch with InDepthNH.org this week with some hopeful news.
Politics
The U.S. Spent a Half Billion on Mining in Afghanistan With ‘Limited Progress’
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The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction has labelled yet another project in danger of failing. This time its U.S. plans to develop the country’s oil, gas and minerals industries.
NH Gives the Go-Ahead To Begin Cultivating Therapeutic Cannabis in Rochester
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Sanctuary ATC’s cultivation center in Rochester is the first to receive DHHS approval to begin cultivating therapeutic cannabis in New Hampshire, according to a DHHS news release.
Attorney General Joseph Foster has refused a right-to-know request filed by InDepthNH.org to release documents related to his decision to issue medical marijuana ID cards to all qualifying patients.
Renewed Calls From Mass. To Close Seabrook Station
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Two Newburyport, Mass., city councilors have called for the shutdown of the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant, which has been operating since 1990.
Education
100,000 NYC School Children Security Screened Every Day
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Crime in the schools has dropped sharply but New York still requires students at more than 200 schools to take off their shoes and send their belongings through x-ray machines.
Politics
From Dirty Fish Secrets to a Mass Exodus: MuckReads
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Some of the best investigative reporting from around the country.
ACLU-NH, NHLA File Lawsuit Challenging Manchester’s Anti-panhandling Practices
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On January 11, 2016, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire (ACLU-NH) and New Hampshire Legal Assistance (NHLA) filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Manchester police department’s practice of detaining, dispersing, and charging peaceful panhandlers for allegedly “obstructing vehicular traffic on public streets” under New Hampshire’s disorderly conduct statute, even when the panhandlers are in a public place and do not step in the roadway.
Sarah’s View from the Borderlands: Our Worlds, Divided
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Sarah Freeman-Woolpert of Pembroke writes from the heart for InDepthNH.org while living in Sarajevo where she is conducting research on youth activism and civic engagement.
“Do you ever work with the students from the other side of town?” she asked a friend there.
Convicted Murderer Lopez Appeals Denial of New Trial to NH Supreme Court
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Convicted murderer Eduardo Lopez Jr. says a judge was wrong last month to rule that evidence of a police detective’s dishonesty decades ago wouldn’t have affected the 1993 guilty verdict against him.
A Showdown Year for Reproductive Rights
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Two potentially sweeping Supreme Court cases set the stage for a seismic shift in the battle over abortion and contraception.
Racist Temp Hiring, a Guest Worker Empire and Much More
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ProPublica’s picks for this week’s best investigative news stories from outlets across the country.
Thar She Blows Sign Still Stands, But Yoken’s is Still Gone
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I don’t know how many times visitors to the Portsmouth area have asked IndepthNH.org’s Roger Wood, “Hey, where’s Yoken’s? The Thar She Blows sign is there, but the restaurant’s gone.”
Fourth Quarter Flurry, or How To Assess the Presidential Filings
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What reports are we not seeing? Any super PACs that are born this month can begin spending immediately but delay disclosure of their donors until Feb. 20 if they choose to file monthly reports.