Manchester holding annual checklist verification in June

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Last year, the New Hampshire legislature passed SB221 amending RSA 654:39, requiring that the voter rolls be verified annually. This verification requires that the City Clerk’s Office and the Board of Registrars review the voter checklist and send a notice to any voters who have not voted in any election in the past five years and registered to vote prior to the 2024 State General Election.

Aldermanic budget decision must wait according to board rules

Tuesday, April 21, 2026Tuesday, April 21, 2026

The Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen did not vote upon the Fiscal Year 2027 budget amounts for the City of Manchester and the Manchester School District during their April 21 meeting, but a vote appears to be likely soon, given some of the comments made during the meeting.

City activates Emergency Operations Center for what looks like it will be a 96-hour winter storm

Friday, January 23, 2026Friday, January 23, 2026

The City of Manchester Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is preparing for an extended winter weather event expected to last more than 96 hours, beginning today and continuing through early next week.

Aldermen suspend rules, ordaining one-to-one needle exchange rule

Monday, December 8, 2025Sunday, December 7, 2025

During their Dec. 3, 2025 meeting, the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA) Committee on Bills ordained an ordinance amendment that would restrict the number of syringes a person can obtain from a syringe service program.

Ending just cause protections from eviction puts already vulnerable populations at far greater risk

Saturday, September 13, 2025

Housing has already become unaffordable, and now thousands are left hanging by a thread, unsure if they will have a place to call home tomorrow. These struggles cut across party, race, faith, and income, because the hardships of life spare no one. Humanity is shared, and so should be the responsibility to protect it.

The Soapbox: These 3 issues control NH’s economy

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

When you wonder why your rent is so high, or why your tax bill just keeps growing—remember that both Republicans and Democrats worked together to avoid taxing the wealthy at the same rate that they’re taxing the poor and middle class.

The Week in Washington: Updates from your NH Congressional Delegation

Sunday, June 29, 2025Sunday, June 29, 2025

We’ve aggregated weekly updates from your NH Delegation in Washington, D.C.

Kiper: ‘Why I’m Dumping the Two-Party System’

Wednesday, July 2, 2025Friday, June 27, 2025

On one side, you’ve got the national Democrats making empty promises and doing nothing to stop what they say is a threat to democracy. On the other hand, the New Hampshire GOP has been taken over by fake libertarians who want to tear the whole system down.

Why I Left the Free State Cult

Wednesday, June 18, 2025Wednesday, June 18, 2025

I wanted out. Fearing backlash, I slowly, passively removed myself from FSP circles. I stopped attending events and unfriended thousands on Facebook. In early 2016, when Ian Freeman publicly claimed that children can consent to sex, I opted for a formal cleaving.

The Week in Washington: Updates from your NH Congressional Delegation

Sunday, June 8, 2025

New Hampshire is represented in the 119th Congress by Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan in the US Senate, Chris Pappas (NH-01), and Maggie Goodlander (NH-92) in the House of Representatives. Below are notifications about some of their legislative activities from the past week.

Hassan, Shaheen, Goodlander meet with AmeriCorps members, directors to discuss proposed program cuts

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

“As we heard this morning, as we were talking about what the impact of potential cuts to the AmeriCorps program would be, it’s not going to save money,” said Senator Shaheen. “What it’s going to do is downshift those costs to local communities, and it’s going to actually cost us more. So this is all a foolhardy effort.”

The Week in Washington: Updates from your NH Congressional Delegation

Monday, June 2, 2025Monday, June 2, 2025

New Hampshire is represented in the 119th Congress by Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Senator Maggie Hassan in the US Senate, Chris Pappas (NH-01), and Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) in the House of Representatives. Below are notifications about some of their legislative activities from the past week.

Senator Hassan on Director Noem’s hearing exchange: ‘I was truly shocked by her answer’

Saturday, May 31, 2025

“And the fact, I was hoping that she actually would be able to respond accurately to the question of what habeas corpus is and I was anticipating that we would have perhaps a difference of opinion about how easy it is for a president to decide to suspend it, what kind of process they have to do. And instead, I found that she was giving me a definition that was completely inverted.”

The Week in Washington: Updates from your NH Congressional Delegation

Monday, May 26, 2025

Hassan, Goodlander meet with educators to discuss impact of DOE closure on Granite State students

Monday, May 19, 2025

“I’d just like to say that as public educators, our number one commitment is to do what is best for our students. And we achieve that through federal funding. So, largely our federal funding. goes to our most at-risk kids. It is students from low-income families. It is students who are homeless. It is students with social and emotional needs.”

EveryLibrary and MomsRising published the results of a poll this week conducted by the University of New Hampshire examining Granite State residents’ support of House Bill 324.

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