Ben Chan
Committee Approves Federal Pandemic Money To Prepare for COVID-19 Surge This Winter
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Budget writers Friday approved using $8.9 million in federal pandemic recovery money to prepare for a possible COVID-19 surge this winter.
COVID
While Some Say Pandemic Over, State Prepares for Another Surge
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Although many political leaders from the president to the governor want the perception to be that daily life is approaching what it was before the pandemic began, their actions say something else.
Chris Sununu
Ryan Guptill’s Judicial Nomination Lauded at Hearing
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Ryan Guptill, the governor’s nominee to become a Circuit Court judge, went to a public hearing Friday with questions posed about how he would handle the backlog of cases, involuntary emergency admission hearings, and the lack of public defenders slowing the process.
Amoskeag Health
GOP-Controlled Council Again Rejects Funding 3 Health-Care Clinics; Dr. Sherman Protests
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For the fourth time, the current Republican-controlled Executive Council has rejected a series of contracts for health care at reproductive clinics throughout the state, impacting thousands of low-income women.
Chris Sununu
Sununu Predicts Winter COVID-19 Uptick, Saying ‘We are Prepared’
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Gov. Chris Sununu said there are reports in the nation’s south that COVID-19 is seeing an uptick and will likely come here by winter, but the state is in a better position now to respond to it and new variants than ever before.
Business & Economy
HHS Commissioner Lori Shibinette Resigns
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Lori Shibinette gave no reason at the Executive Council meeting Tuesday for her decision to take leave of the top post at Health and Human Services at the end of 2022.
Business & Economy
Warmington Presses Sununu on State Protections After Roe v. Wade Overturned
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Councilor Cinde Warmington pressed Gov. Chris Sununu on what he plans to do to protect abortion providers and their out-of-state patients at Wednesday’s Executive Council meeting.
Chris Sununu
Council Again Tables $15M Contract To Start Portsmouth Hospital Mental Health Complex
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What could have been the start of a $45 million mental health hospital for the state in Epping was removed from the table of the state’s Executive Council for the third time Wednesday.
American Rescue Plan Act
Budget Writers Question Doorway Program Success and Hampstead Hospital Staffing
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State budget writers questioned the success of the Doorway program for substance abuse treatment, and the staffing plan for the Hampstead Hospital after the state purchases the facility but both requests had bipartisan support for approval.