Business & Economy
Who’s Running for President in NH This Week and Where You Can See Them
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And don’t forget Decoding the Vibe, Susan Dromey Heeter’s take on how well the candidates light up the room!
Distant Dome: Willfully and Knowingly Making a Mess of Public Education
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If you watched the House session Thursday, you had to realize the message the Republican majority is sending on public education.
Related: Distant Dome: This Is How Democracy Dies
Carbon Sequestration, Sobriety Check Refusal Punishment Now Part of Parental Rights Bill
A measure to impose a moratorium on creating any new carbon sequestration forest farms in the state and the formation of a study committee on the impacts to the municipal timber tax revenue is more likely to pass into law after Littleton Republican Sen. David Rochefort got his colleagues to include it in a non-related parental rights bill.
House Votes New Requirements for Absentee Voting
The House made it more difficult to vote by absentee ballot passing several bills that will require more information to vote in absentia Thursday.
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Education Freedom Accounts Expanded by House
NH Senate Passes $15.7 Billion Budget Without Support from Democrats
Identical Parental Rights Bills on Way to Governor for Her Expected Signature
Education
IHoP-NH: Jonah Hannon Came to the State House For a Field Trip
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InDepthNH.org’s Paula Tracy talks every week with people from around New Hampshire who come to the State House and Legislative Office Building in Concord about why they do so.
Business & Economy
Berlin Mayor Says Budget Would Eliminate Some Police and Firefighter Jobs
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Berlin budget calls for the elimination of two police officers, two firefighters, one public works employee and cutting funding to all outside agencies that use local funds for federal matches.
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Women’s Rights
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Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.
Business & Economy
Sununu Invites NH Press Corps Into His Office
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Gov. Chris Sununu invited the State House press corps into his office this week offering the chance to ask whatever questions were on their minds.
Business & Economy
OPINION: Tom Mullen Says Northern Pass Opponents Will Prevail
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While the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee (NH SEC) had an obligation to weigh four clearly stated statutory factors during its hearings and its deliberations on the Northern Pass, it only had to find the applicant lacking in one of those four factors in order to deny the application.
Business & Economy
OPINION: Councilor Andru Volinsky Says Northern Pass Is About Money, Power
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The application failed because Eversource and its experts were not credible when they asserted that the project would have no adverse effect on virtually anything.
Courts & Corrections
AG to NH Supreme Court: Judge Erred Ruling Dishonest Cops List Is Public Record
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Judge Temple ruled the unredacted list is a public record in the public records suit filed by the ACLU-NH, the New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism and other news outlets in Hillsborough County Superior Court South in Nashua.
Courts & Corrections
Eversource Argues Regulators Made Legal Errors Denying Northern Pass
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Developer Eversource claimed state regulators made legal errors requiring the court to overturn the $1.6 billion project’s denial.
Business & Economy
Senate Backs OHRV, Red-Tailed Hawk, Sports Betting; Gov. Signs ‘Balsams Bill’
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On a voice vote, the Senate killed a bill that would have prohibited businesses from providing single-use plastic straws to customers unless specifically requested.
Courts & Corrections
Council Denies Pam Smart’s Request for Life Sentence Reduction Hearing
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After the vote, Smart’s mother, Linda Wojas, tearfully said she dreaded the conversation she will have with her daughter that there will be no chance for a hearing.
Featured in Category
Sununu Snipes Plan To Run Again for Governor, Dems Respond In Kind
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Gov. Sununu: “We all know that I would defeat Jeanne Shaheen, but others can too. Never before has a sitting twelve year Senator from New Hampshire accomplished so little.”
Courts & Corrections
Vt. Supreme Court Hears Arguments to Unseal Reporter’s Shield Decision
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Gray Television, Inc., is seeking to unseal the decision which protected its station, WCAX-TV in Burlington, from being forced to comply with an inquest subpoena for all unpublished footage of a police-involved shooting.
Courts & Corrections
Watch Live Northern Pass’ Supreme Court Appeal On Video Here May 15
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You can view the oral arguments here, all the court filings and the more than 400 news stories InDepthNH.org has reported on the controversial Northern Pass project.
Business & Economy
Conservation Law Foundation Appeals Seacoast Project to NH Supreme Court
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The CLF’s appeal centers on concrete mattresses that will be placed over the three cables to be buried under Little Bay near the shores of Newington and Durham.
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Family Leave Veto
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Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.
Business & Economy
OHRV Trail System’s Future In The Hands of Lawmakers
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Stephen Clorite of Berlin, president of the North Country OHRV Coalition that operates the 1,000-mile Ride the Wilds trail system in the North Country, called the amended House Bill 591 “scary.”
Bill Weld
Decoding the Vibe: ‘Alpha Beto’ Is No Laughing Matter
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Beto’s vibe felt very polite, reverential, boring.
Business & Economy
Fever-Pitch Squabbling Heading To House, Senate
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The bickering largely has been between the two parties in the House and Senate, but this time of year the bickering begins to shift to between the House and Senate as the jockeying begins to ensure their priorities are preserved somewhere before the conference committees begin to reconcile different versions of bills.
NH State House InDepth
They are everywhere: Find the candidate you want to be president
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Tell us if you are hosting a candidate. email nancywestnews@gmail.com