NH tried to study bail reform’s impact. It never happened.

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“Due to difficulties experienced by the jails in providing us the data needed to do our analysis, we have not been able to begin the project,” Tenille Patterson, one of the organization’s executive partners, wrote to the N.H. Department of Justice’s Grants Management Unit. “Moreover, it appears that those difficulties cannot be overcome in a way that would allow the project to proceed.”

Aldermanic committee recommends return of parking space seating, but with a price

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Restaurants looking to apply for an encumbrance permit this year, which would allow them put seating on parking spaces. However, this year it would cost $420 per space for the usage of the space from May 1 to Oct. 31. That figure came from a average of what it would cost the city in lost revenue from parking meter fees and higher rate for permits to allow construction vehicles the use of spaces.

Could marijuana legalization go up in smoke? NH political leaders say it’s possible

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“I think the Senate has always opposed legalizing marijuana and I think that’s still the same right now,” said Senate President Chuck Morse of Salem. “I think there is a concept here that people want to try to understand,” Morse, who is also running in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, said.

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