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In the 2018 election the Democrats won majorities in the New Hampshire House and Senate for the first time in nearly a decade and for only the fifth time since Franklin Pierce was elected President in 1853. Two years later the majorities were erased.
A controversial proposal to build a landfill close to a North Country lake and state park has been denied by the state Department of Environmental Services, though it can be appealed within 30 days.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
Workers at the Starbucks store at the Seabrook Crossing plaza voted Thursday to join Workers United, a union that is representing workers at more than 550 Starbucks stores, including three others in New Hampshire.
The finishing touches on a proposed House budget that cuts many state programs and services for the next two years but offers a balanced budget were worked out Thursday by the Finance Committee.
With the House budget writers facing two court rulings now awaiting state Supreme Court decisions, they took little action to address the challenges to the state’s education funding system, while adding tens of millions of dollars for the Education Freedom Account Program and charter schools above what Gov. Kelly Ayotte requested.
Ending speculation, Democratic New Hampshire Congressman Chris Pappas announced his plan Thursday to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jeanne Shaheen.
Children’s access to “obscene” or “harmful” materials in schools and school libraries is the focus of three bills this legislative session, with House Bill 324 causing some drama last week when its author read graphic scenes from two young adult novels on the House floor.
The grassroots upsurge of resistance to the policies of the Trump administration will reach a new peak Saturday, April 5, when demonstrations are expected in one thousand locations nationwide, including sixteen in New Hampshire.