The city on Tuesday learned that it had prevailed in a court challenge to its vacate order by the ACLU, which allowed the city to follow through with dismantling the makeshift campsite of some 40 tents at the intersection of Manchester and Pine streets.
The New Hampshire House of Representatives Election Law Committee held hearings on a series of bills on Tuesday. Here’s a recap of what was said.
On Tuesday, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu provided a written response to a letter from Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig and other New Hampshire mayors earlier this month regarding the state’s reaction to homelessness in New Hampshire.
On Jan. 17 Amanda Robichaud is on the agenda of the Special Committee on Alcohol, Drugs and Youth Services. Robichaud intends to lay out a proposal for the city to reduce the number of people experiencing homelessness and drug addiction in the city.
Lawmakers know the Department of Health and Human Services will not meet its March 1 deadline for closing the Sununu Youth Services Center and replacing it with a smaller, more therapeutic setting for at-risk youth.
New Hampshire lawmakers are weighing a bill to end the state’s tradition of open primaries by requiring residents to register with a political party at least four months before the state primaries in order to vote in that primary.
On Thursday, New Hampshire Senate Democrats released their legislative priorities for the 2023 session in what they are calling the Granite Pledge.
The lawmakers also heard from representatives of the Business and Industry Association and the New Hampshire Association of Realtors who noted the challenges of a tight labor market and how the lack of affordable housing impacts the state’s economy.
Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, is taking a national position, as second in command to U.S. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.
Is it a needed part of the solution for a city badly in need of housing or a proposal that would substantially impact an adjacent urban neighborhood? That was the question on Thursday night as the Manchester Zoning Board of Adjustment heard a second rehearing for a project at 1230 Elm Street, a building within the city’s central business district.
On Thursday, New Hampshire legislators heard arguments in favor of a constitutional amendment that would introduce a lieutenant governor to New Hampshire’s state government.
On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) arrived at the New Hampshire Food Bank where she celebrated the $974,000 given as part of omnibus spending bill passed by Congress late last year.
On Wednesday in the New Hampshire House of Representatives’ Education Committee, legislators examined a bill that would require local school districts to devote at least one hour of instruction to teaching students about communism.
On Wednesday, the New Hampshire House Executive Departments and Administration committee discussed proposed legislation that would change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day in New Hampshire.
On Monday, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig and other local mental health and substance abuse experts at the Farnum Center to discuss the impact of medication assisted treatment toward fighting the state’s opioid epidemic.
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.
Tonight the city will prepare a space for the chronically homeless, those who for a number of reasons either can’t or won’t go into the state’s largest low-barrier shelter, operated by Families in Transition.
At the halfway point of the 2023 fiscal year, state revenues are about $200 million ahead of estimates and $40 million more than a year ago.
On Wednesday, New Hampshire Senate Republicans held a press conference releasing their legislative agenda for the next two years. A Democratic agenda is expected to be released next week.
