Posts by Sruthi Gopalakrishnan
The New Hampshire Senate voted down a bill that would have allowed medical aid in dying on Thursday, taking away the opportunity for terminally ill individuals to end their suffering through self-administered medication.
Concord Casino’s doors are set to shut after a hearing decision suspends owner Andy Sanborn of his casino operating and gaming license for six months, making him ineligible to be involved with the state’s charitable gaming business model, after an investigation found that he fraudulently obtained and used COVID-19 relief funds.
Prior to the implementation of New Hampshire’s centralized system for involuntary emergency admissions in March 2022, individuals with mental illnesses were confined to emergency rooms for extended periods, sometimes stretching into weeks while waiting for a hearing that was mandated to take place within three days.
Documents obtained by the Attorney General’s Civil Law Bureau “contain evidence indicating Mr. Sanborn’s knowing and willful execution of a scheme and artifice to defraud the United States Small Business Administration.”
It’s a process that happens hundreds of times a day, as a steady line of trucks packed with trash drive between the slopes of buried mountains of debris at the Four Hills Landfill. Millions of tons of trash end up in New Hampshire’s landfills each year, including municipal solid waste, construction and demolition debris, and ash. The waste stream includes countless items that consumers assume are being recycled and thousands of truckloads from other New England states.