We’ve planned two “meet and greets” for Ward 6 voters (or anyone interested) to come out and meet each candidate in a relaxed social setting with the help of our friends at Great North Aleworks.
A marijuana legalization bill cleared another hurdle in Concord this week, with bipartisan support.
Over a three-hour process packed with floor amendments, representatives quibbled around the edges and made some changes. What emerged, however, was a bipartisan agreement that raises Medicaid rate increases above what Gov. Chris Sununu asked for, includes an increase in targeted aid to public schools, adds new curbs on gubernatorial emergency powers, removes a proposed expansion to the “education freedom account” program, expands eligibility for free and reduced-price lunches in schools, and keeps proposed raises for state employees.
The New Hampshire House of Representatives Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety took up two more bills on Wednesday relating to bail reform, with both added to a list of other bills on the topic that will be examined later this year.
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) announces that on Monday, April 10, 2023, daytime road work will begin on Interstate 93, in the southbound lanes, between Exit 10 in Hooksett and Exit 6 in Manchester.
In an effort to help curb the number of Manchester residents having limited access to fresh, healthy foods, the City of Manchester Health Department (MHD), in partnership with the Manchester Food Collaborative, has released its 2023 Manchester Healthy Food Access Plan (HFAP).
The city’s Economic Development Office is accepting proposals for events that will showcase the downtown and bring business – and people – into the city.
The Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen Committee on Administration and Information Systems held a special Monday meeting, ultimately recommending the creation of a stand-alone Department of Homeless Initiatives in a non-unanimous voice vote.
On Friday, New Hampshire House of Representatives Speaker Sherman Packard (R-Londonderry) released statement confronting e-mails from Lakes Region-based White Nationalist Ryan Murdough attacking state representatives.
Gov. Chris Sununu will appear March 31 on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” to talk national politics. The interview will air at 10 p.m.
This year, New Hampshire is considering a different approach: Medicaid. A federal program created in 2010 would automatically enroll students in free and reduced-price lunch plans using Medicaid enrollment data. That data includes families’ incomes already, eliminating the need for an application in most cases.
The budget being proposed by the House Finance Committee would slash the money going into the Education Trust Fund, while reducing its obligation to fund special education, school building aid and other programs.
U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), U.S. Representative Annie Kuster (D-NH-02) and dignitaries from the New Hampshire law enforcement community gathered at the Norris Cotton Federal Building to christen the newly expanded Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) digital forensics lab on Monday morning.
Around 1,000 people currently housed in motels and hotels across the state amid the ongoing housing crunch are desperate to find affordable housing now that the funding covering their rooms is ending.
Two women, housed for months in area hotels at the government’s expense, are desperately looking for places to live now that the NH Emergency Rental Assistance funding is ending.
