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New Hampshire officials are attempting to recover $6 million in unemployment benefits that have been incorrectly paid out to Granite Staters since 2017. But how the state enforces those collections has sparked debate. Currently, residents who wrongly...

By ETHAN DEWITT

The New Hampshire State Board of Education tabled a proposal Thursday that would allow public school students to take a financial literacy course from PragerU, a conservative media organization, amid strong pushback from educators.In a voice vote, the...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire lawmakers and stakeholders will explore a state-run approach to legalizing retail cannabis in the coming months, after Gov. Chris Sununu signed a bill creating a study commission.  House Bill 611, signed into law Tuesday, establishes a...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire cities and towns received a clear warning in 2020: The Accuvote machines used by many communities to count ballots at elections are growing old. In a July 2020 letter to cities and towns, LHS Associates, the Salem-based vendor that sells...

By ETHAN DEWITT

In the years after COVID-19 arrived, foreclosures in New Hampshire dropped. That was intentional: The federal government imposed a moratorium preventing lenders from carrying out foreclosures on federally backed mortgages, and offered forbearances to...

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Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt the final blow to “independent state legislature theory.” Amid blockbuster decisions around affirmative action and student debt relief, the U.S. Supreme Court also ruled on a legal theory that experts said could...

By ETHAN DEWITT

A month after Gov. Chris Sununu said he would support legalizing marijuana in New Hampshire if it were regulated and sold through state liquor stores, lawmakers are moving toward studying that approach.After negotiations last week, House and Senate...

By ETHAN DEWITT

At the Parker-Varney school in Manchester, grades are not part of the curriculum. “Mastery” is.Students work their way through individual concepts, like long division or the mathematical order of operations. There are no letter grades and no distinct...

By ETHAN DEWITT

On a recent Saturday evening, the Manchester Police Department arrested a man they say waved a box cutter at a Dollar Tree employee during a shoplifting attempt. The man, Scott Titus, had recently been released on bail, the department said. He was...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire lawmakers killed a bill last week that would have allowed for online voter registration in time for the 2024 presidential primaries, after Senate Republicans objected to an unrelated House amendment over ballot machines.As originally...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire will extend a program this summer to train educators to teach chess in schools, seizing on what officials say is an increased interest in the game among students. On Wednesday, the Executive Council approved a $60,000 federally funded...

By ETHAN DEWITT

The New Hampshire Legislature is considering allowing online voter registration – a major potential change to the state’s election system that advocates say would ease burdens on voters and poll workers.Senate Bill 70, which the House passed last...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire will devote more than $500,000 in federal funds to help resettle up to 400 Ukrainian refugees in the state over the next three years, after an Executive Council vote Wednesday.The council approved contracts with two organizations – the...

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As federal COVID-19 support programs fade away, evictions in New Hampshire are on the rise.Data from the state’s judicial branch indicates that the average number of “landlord tenant writs” – the first official phase in an eviction process – filed per...

By ETHAN DEWITT

Days before the New Hampshire House takes up a contentious vote on a “parental bill of rights,” a group of church leaders are voicing opposition. In a letter Monday, 80 religious leaders, including pastors, priests, rabbis, and nuns, urged the House...

By ETHAN DEWITT

A key Senate committee recommended killing a cannabis legalization bill Tuesday, dealing a setback to an effort that passed the House with bipartisan support.In a 3-2, party-line vote, Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans voted to recommend House...

By ETHAN DEWITT

The first time Maureen Psaradelis suspected that artificial intelligence had infiltrated her high school English classroom came after an assignment about “The Great Gatsby.”Psaradellis had assigned an essay to analyze the themes of F. Scott...

By ETHAN DEWITT

For Thomas Anderson, a phone call at 2 in the morning is an invitation, not a nuisance. On the other line is likely a police department and a person who has just been arrested and charged. And as a bail commissioner, Anderson is one of 100 people in...

By ETHAN DEWITT

For Wendy Santiago, moving her son out of the public school system didn’t feel like a luxury. It felt like a necessity.By his third year in the Concord school system, Santiago’s son had been the subject of regular bullying, she testified to...

By ETHAN DEWITT

New Hampshire senators are considering a bill that would require landlords to give information on legal aid to tenants who are being evicted.House Bill 379, which passed the House on a voice vote earlier this month, would mandate that eviction notices...