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.Â
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.Â
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.Â
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.