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Students from almost every school district in the state are participating in the new “Education Freedom Account” program with some school districts more impacted than others.
The House will not be meeting in Representatives Hall when it reconvenes next month to act on vetoes and retained bills.
In three hours of public testimony Wednesday evening, not a single one of the 42 speakers endorsed the Republicans’ redistricting proposals and, in particular, their revised map of congressional districts. They described that map as the most extreme example of gerrymandering yet.
Nine years old at the time, Eustaquio “TJ” Carvalho said, “I wake up to go to school and there’s a man standing in the middle of my room. I knew that something was wrong.”
Special committees in the state Senate and House on redistricting will be meeting Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Strafford County Courthouse, but people can also watch from the comfort of their homes.
New Hampshire could have commuter rail service connecting Nashua, Manchester and its airport with the MBTA line at Lowell, Mass., in the coming years as the Executive Council has approved a $5.4 million engineering and public outreach contract for the NH Capitol Corridor rail project.
About 200 people gathered in Concord to “send a clear message that all the votes are counted nationally,” in the words of Asma Elhuni, Movement Politics Director for Rights and Democracy.
Citing what he called the first community transmission of the COVID-19 virus in New Hampshire, the Manchester school superintendent announced closing the city’s public schools for the next two weeks.