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When New Hampshire House Republican leaders quoted Martin Luther King, Jr. in their defense of the state’s “Divisive Concepts” or “Non-Discrimination” law last week, it wasn’t the first time King’s words were used to imply something quite different from what he intended.
In addition, in response to the statewide increase in homelessness, Mayor Joyce Craig, along with seven other Mayors across the State of New Hampshire, made requests to the state.
Healthcare providers and business leaders called for the reauthorization of Medicaid expansion in New Hampshire as the new legislative session begins.
Mayors from eight cities – from Berlin to Manchester to Claremont, Somersworth and beyond – have again appealed to Gov. Chris Sununu for help assisting unhoused people after a tragic holiday week that saw two homeless people die and a woman give birth in a tent during freezing cold weather.
Manchester Police spokesman Heather Hamel confirmed there was a large fight and stabbing behind the old police department at 351 Chestnut St. That’s near the Families in Transition shelter at 199 Manchester St.
On Dec. 21, advocates gathered outside the State House in Concord to remember 93 homeless people who died in 2022 in New Hampshire, not knowing two more deaths would be added to the list during Christmas week in Manchester.
A woman died in a tent outside Families in Transition in Manchester on Christmas Day and a woman who gave birth to a baby in the woods is the daughter of famed baseball pitcher Dennis Eckersley.
The widow of a career firefighter who fought to have her husband’s 2020 cancer death determined to be caused in the line of duty will receive a $100,000 death benefit immediately.
From field and forest to aging church steeples, more than $4 million in matching conservation and preservation grants were distributed across the state this week from a program that the governor said: “protects New Hampshire’s identity.”