‘NH deserves a working-class governor’ says Jon Kiper, a restaurateur vying for Democratic gubernatorial nomination

Thursday, July 11, 2024

Jon Kiper is the maverick and the long shot in a race paced by former Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig and sitting Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington. Unlike Craig and Warmington, who have both taken the pledge to veto a sales or income tax, Kiper has shunned it. “I’m not proposing a broad-based tax,” he said, “but I’m not taking the pledge because it’s stupid.”

Judge questions Edelblut’s stand that it’s not his job ‘to figure it out’

Monday, June 10, 2024Saturday, April 22, 2023

School-funding suit plaintiffs again call for statewide property tax to be jettisoned

Monday, June 10, 2024Saturday, March 4, 2023

NH among states aiming to block ESG investing

Monday, June 10, 2024Friday, February 24, 2023

New Hampshire has joined 24 other states in seeking to scotch the Biden administration’s initiative to allow fiduciaries managing the assets of retirement plans to weigh climate change, along with environmental, social and corporate governance factors — collectively known as ESG — in the balance of their investment decisions.

How are New Hampshire municipalities, counties going to spend ARPA windfall?

Monday, June 10, 2024Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Priorities emerging, but most are taking their time to decide.

Dec. 30 CARES deadline puts shelters on edge

Sunday, June 16, 2024Saturday, September 12, 2020

With high unemployment and the lingering coronavirus, homeless shelters across the state are bracing what could be an especially challenging winter. And their preparations are overshadowed by the federal CARES Act, which requires that funds used to provide space and take steps needed to house individuals and families safely must be spent by year’s end.

NH’s ‘convoluted’ housing market has been years in the making

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Pandemic, recession have only exacerbated trends already in place.

New Hampshire hospitality industry proposes four-phase reopening plan

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Friday, April 24, 2020

Phase one could begin with outdoor dining as early as May 5, the day after the governor’s executive order closing restaurants to the general public and restricting operations to take-out service is scheduled to expire.

‘Goggles for Docs’ asks NH skiers to aid medical personnel battling COVID-19

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Tuesday, April 14, 2020

New Hampshire skiers have joined the effort to put Covid-19 on a downhill slope with “Goggles for Docs,” a nationwide effort to provide ski goggles to medical professionals across the country who have no eye protection as they care for infected patients. There are at least four drop-off points in New Hampshire.

NH banks, state agencies ‘here to help’ businesses in effort to weather Covid-19 crisis

Sunday, June 16, 2024Sunday, March 29, 2020

New Hampshire Banking Commissioner Jerry Little said that the Federal Financial Institutions Examinations Council (FFIEC), issued a statement on March 22 encouraging “financial institutions to meet the financial needs of customers and members affected by the coronavirus.”

A broke and broken system: After years of neglect state seeks to restore mental health services

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Friday, March 8, 2019

Once ranked among the nation’s best, New Hampshire’s mental healthcare system has steadily eroded since the turn of the century, and grown more distressed in the past decade as the demand for mental health services has far outrun the capacity to provide them.

How did we get here? Diagnosing the behavioral health crisis in New Hampshire

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Friday, March 8, 2019

In-patient services are not sufficient to treat the numbers of mentally ill experiencing crises who require them. Out-patient and support services at the community level are not sufficient to stem the numbers requiring inpatient care. And housing, employment and other support services are not sufficient to ensure inpatients can be safely returned to the community in a timely manner.