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New laws and ballot counting machines, ongoing lawsuits and the planned presence of federal election monitors in Nashua and Manchester are making some voters uneasy about next Tuesday’s Republican and Democratic primaries.
The NBA program bypasses local government to pay for related police overtime, training, and overhead, while promoting applications for federal DHS grants to buy equipment, including Tactical Gear, Breaching Equipment, Mobile Command Vehicles, Mobile Repeaters, Infrared Illuminators – and that’s just so far. Berlin, a small city whose police entered into an NBA agreement, and is more than 35 miles away from the nearest point on the Canadian border, has applied for all of that.
Nearly all Republicans and a plurality of independents plan to vote for Ayotte while four in five Democrats plan to vote for Warmington. Approval of Ayotte’s job performance has also increased since July.
Chris Sununu and Kelly Ayotte have broken with the tradition of maintaining a bipartisan balance on the New Hampshire Supreme Court so all five justices are Republicans now instead of a 3 to 2 split along party lines at a time when the court is facing heightened public scrutiny and Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald is out on indefinite medical leave.
The two original Claremont education funding decisions should be overturned in whole or in part, the state argues in its 125-page brief in its appeal of the superior court’s Rand decision.
Outside Super PACs have spent more than $1 million in dark money on the Democratic Primary for Congress in NH’s CD-1 (Manchester, Laconia and the Seacoast) and we still have more than five weeks to go. The spending has been in support of candidates Maura Sullivan and Stefany Shaheen.
It looks likely that beginning in 2027, if you refuse a police breath test to determine whether you are operating under the influence of alcohol, it will likely bring an automatic license suspension of nine months rather than the current six months.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte focused her State of the State address on public safety and affordability Thursday and said that together we can protect what sets the state apart.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte said Tuesday she is nominating four New Hampshire individuals to a number of top positions, including to the NH Supreme Court, chair of the PUC, BEA Commissioner and the state’s child advocate.