Feature
Decoding Julian Castro’s Vibe: Class, Wait and Hope
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When Presidential Candidate Julian Castro arrived at Dover’s packed Flight Cafe Monday night wearing his crisp blue suit, everyone stood.
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
Op-Ed: Who are New Hampshire Republicans: Are they the company they keep?
“Well, we all are going to die” is the tone deaf quip Sen. Ernst had to offer last
week, in response to a constituent who expressed concern over how the
devastating cuts to Medicaid in the GOP budget plan will cause people to perish.
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.
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House Votes New Requirements for Absentee Voting
Education Freedom Accounts Expanded by House
NH Senate Passes $15.7 Billion Budget Without Support from Democrats
Energy
The Anti-CWIP Law at 40: Still Used and Useful After All These Years
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Anti-CWIP was the issue that catapulted Hugh Gallen to an upset victory in the 1978 gubernatorial election that ousted three-term incumbent Meldrim Thomson.
Courts & Corrections
12 From Colebrook Area Indicted for Drug Trafficking
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CONCORD – Twelve individuals who previously were arrested have been indicted by a federal grand jury for crimes that primarily involve prescription drug trafficking.
Education
Sen. Hough – In Claremont Lawsuit, He Testified for the Other Side – NH Students
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PODCAST: Former state Senate President Ralph Hough gave New Hampshire a Senate to remember in 1992.
Feature
All About Soldiers and Loyalty and Anger and Love
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It is a story of the last six years of Bonaparte’s life. The world was at war.
Business & Economy
Lawmakers Take On Wood-Burning Plant Subsidies and Net Metering, Again
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Should you pay to subsidize wood-burning electric generating plants?
Feature
The Spirit of Opening Day Is Time With Your Kids
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I associated the opening day of fishing with the opening day of baseball and Spring. A time to celebrate being outdoors.
Feature
Repeal 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
Bipartisan Biomass Energy Amendment Seeks To Avoid Long Legal Fight
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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on the amendment on Tuesday, May 7.
Featured in Category
Sununu Vetoes Death Penalty Repeal; Activists Hope To Override
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Maintaining the death penalty in our state, even if infrequently used, makes us complicit in the bias and corruption of the death penalty system nationwide, where one out of every 10 of those put on death row are later exonerated, said Barbara Keshen.
Business & Economy
House GOP Leader Reacts to April Revenue Report
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I think this demonstrates the success of common sense tax rate reductions.
Feature
Catch the Candidates Coming To NH This Week
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Your handy guide to which 2020 candidates are headed to NH next (7 in the next week, including a few new ones!)
Business & Economy
Senate Backs Medical Pot Patients Growing Their Own; House Adds DCYF Staff
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Marijuana in the spotlight in Concord, along with the Medicaid work requirement, mental health and child protection.
Energy
Rate Design: The Fun Phase of Any Rate Case
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You can read James C. Bonbright’s famous treatise, Principles of Public Utility Rates, of more than 400 pages. Or take D. Maurice Kreis’s word for it. Hmm.
News
Death Penalty Repeal Awaits Sununu’s Veto
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The New Hampshire Senate previously voted 17 to 6 to pass a bill to repeal the death penalty. And the House voted 279 to 88 — also reaching a veto-proof majority.
Feature
OPINION: Please Support the Death Penalty Repeal Bill Gov. Sununu
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As people who have lost loved ones to homicide, as members of the law enforcement community, and as advocates for justice, we appeal to you once more to sign the measure repealing the state’s death penalty.
Education
IHoP-NH: You Can Count On Christa McAuliffe School’s 4th Graders
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On May Day, fourth-graders from the Christa McAuliffe School marched down the street to the State House to sing “Count on Me” on the granite steps in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month.
Business & Economy
Councilor Ted Gatsas Is Off To The Races at Kentucky Derby
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This weekend, Ted Gatsas will watch Vekoma, his three-year-old horse, being ridden by Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano in the run for the roses.
Business & Economy
Army Corps: Seacoast Power Project Impacts on Federal Waters Will Be Significant
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The Army Corps announced it will require a site specific “individual” permit rather than a “general” permit which would have left the bulk of the work to the state Department of Environmental Services.