Posts by Andrew Sylvia
Discussion got heated on Tuesday night Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA) meeting as the topic returned once again to homelessness, this time largely around residents and business owners in the vicinity of the Families in Transition Shelter on Manchester Street.
As the 118th Congress begins, U.S. Representative Chris Pappas (D-NH-01) is urging House Democratic and Republican leadership to include a ban on trading stocks by members of Congress in the upcoming rules package.
Within the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that recently passed in Congress and later signed into law, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) noted that bill included 105 New Hampshire-specific projects, including several Manchester-related items.
On Tuesday, New Hampshire Senate President Jeb Bradley (R-Conway) applauded the 76 percent increase in revenues distributed to cities and towns under the state’s Rooms and Meals Tax.
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) was sworn in for her second term, once again taking her oath of office, joining 34 other U.S. Senators elected in recent elections across the country.
Anyone that follows the Manchester Ink Link Facebook page knows that I like to take cell phone pictures just outside of Margaritas on Elm Street looking southward toward City Hall.
One of the reasons for that is this year-end video of all those pictures, showing the changes that occurred throughout the year.
Thanks to a late three-pointer from Juliette Tarsa, the Bow Falcons are this year’s Doug Chandler Girls’ Basketball Tournament champions, defeating Conant, 34-31.
Two days are down and there’s one day left to go in the 2022 Doug Chandler Holiday Girls’ Basketball Tournament and Thursday’s title matchup will come down to a pair of non-Division I teams that haven’t seen a loss yet in regular season play that beat Division I opponents on Wednesday.
Day One of the 2022 Doug Chandler Girls’ Christmas Girls’ Basketball Tournament is in the books and it was capped off with a thrilling contest between two Queen City teams that provided a more even contest than their respective divisions might suggest.
A team of Memorial girls’ basketball alumni defeated the 2022-’23 Memorial girls’ basketball varsity team on Monday night, 60-52.
In what may be a prelude to a 2024 Presidential run, this week a political committee supporting New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu took out Facebook ads in the early presidential primary nomination states of Iowa and South Carolina.
Within the more than 4,100-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus government spending bill, one could find elements of legislation aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic introduced by U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH).
The Crusaders of Manchester Memorial picked up their first win of the still young 2022-’23 NHIAA Division I Boys’ Basketball season on Thursday night, even if they didn’t make it easy for themselves. That win came at the expense of Merrimack in the form of a late 56-55 victory.
The Manchester Board of School Committee (BOSC) Policy Committee met on Wednesday night for their last meeting of 2022, making a set of decisions before convening until the new year.
Dignitaries and well wishers gathered on Thursday afternoon to celebrate a new 12-bedroom facility on Central Street aimed to help housing insecure individuals build a foundation to improve their lives.
On Wednesday, New Hampshire Democratic Party (NHDP) Chairman Ray Buckley responded to Democratic National Committee Chairman (DNC) Jaime Harrison, stating that DNC demands relating to the First in the Nation (FITN) Presidential Primary were not reasonable and could only harm Democrats within New Hampshire.
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In the final discussion of the final Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting of the year, the topic turned to the issue of the city’s homeless people and their status on the city’s sidewalks.
