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Nine days before Dr. David Vargas-Lowy was criminally charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl during an office visit last year, the New Hampshire Board of Medicine (BOM) lifted a temporary suspension of his medical license in connection with the same incident.
As the budget season for Fiscal Year 2026 begins to come into focus, a memorandum of understanding between the Manchester School District and the City of Manchester for an independent efficiency audit was recommended by the Manchester Board of School Committee’s Finance Committee on Wednesday night, part of a larger initiative by Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais to proactively find budgetary efficiencies in local government budgets.
Bringing back the death penalty is not justice, it’s the ultimate form of slavery. It is inhumane to believe that taking another life restores safety or peace. The New Hampshire legislature repealed the death penalty in 2019 by a bipartisan, two-thirds majority. Since then, there has been no rise in homicide. In fact, New Hampshire has the lowest homicide rate in the nation.
State revenue collections in December, a key month for State revenues, offered both good news for the State’s overall financial picture and more cautionary signs for underlying revenue strength.
McCormick, 72, applied for the elderly tax exemption last year and has saved over $1,000 on her tax bill. She said the exemption has “most definitely” been helpful, but she and many of her neighbors believe the exemption’s requirements are difficult to meet.
A story published by Granite Post about a leaked group chat among leaders of the NH House Education Policy and Administration Committee has prompted NH Democrats to call for the resignation of a Bedford state lawmaker – who chairs the committee – and a fellow Republican for comments made about “segregated schools.”
The Manchester Planning Board held their first meeting of the year last week in a meeting focused on a pair of proposals looking to re-envision properties in the heart of the city.
Join Auburn Democrats at the Auburn Severance School for the Democratic Town Caucus from 12-12:30 p.m. on Jan. 17, followed by a meet and greet with community building activities and Caribbean food from Don Quijote.
For years, there have been rumors that the Manchester School District would somehow realign the city’s public high school students away from its long-standing configuration. In their first regular meeting of 2026, the Manchester Board of School Committee (BOSC) held another discussion looking at just such a realignment that recommended no immediate action.
Four months into the school year, the state Department of Education warned districts that those types of videos are now illegal under state law, unless the school has written permission from parents to audio or video record each student. The same applies to band concerts and, it appears, sporting events.