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On Monday, Rep. Debra Altschiller, D-Stratham, announced her candidacy for New Hampshire Senate District 24, the seat currently held by Dr. Tom Sherman, who announced his candidacy for governor on March 14.
Senate Bill 332 would provide benefits similar to an emergency order during the early days of the pandemic. Under the bill, an additional $300 per week would go to full-time workers and $150 a week to part-time workers in the health-care industry.
The Senate voted on a number of bills related to Education Freedom Accounts, Redistricting, bail reform and others at a busy session on Wednesday.
One might expect that a bill to eliminate a new state voucher program that just launched in the fall would meet with opposition, but a separate bill, seeking to ensure that the Education Freedom Accounts go only to families in need of financial help also met with strong opposition during a hearing before the Senate Education Committee on Tuesday.
After visiting one of the state’s hardest-hit hospitals Thursday, Gov. Chris Sununu announced more opportunities to get a COVID-19 booster shot in the coming weeks and said more in-home testing and more medicine to keep people out of the hospital are on the way.
The current surge of COVID-19 Delta variant in New Hampshire was preventable and caused by a lack of leadership that has delayed booster shots and had real health-care consequences, said two physicians who are also top Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday.
Gov. Chris Sununu is taking heat about his comments on mask wearing in a Face the Nation interview and the state’s sluggish vaccination rate when some are complaining they can’t get a booster appointment or child’s vaccination until after Christmas.
Gov. Chris Sununu reiterated what he said last week relative to actions he is taking relative to the dramatic surge in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
One Democratic lawmaker pressed Friday to better protect children touring the mask-optional State House and others scolded Republicans who don’t wear face masks and voted against $27 million in federal contracts that would have boosted vaccination efforts, which they say will delay getting shots to children.