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By ETHAN DeWITT

More than a decade ago, a Democratic-majority New Hampshire Legislature passed a short-lived effort to reduce the number of people jailed for violating their parole. Today, amid new data showing high proportions of parole violators behind bars, some...

By ETHAN DeWITT

In 2019, Keene’s Human Services Department recorded just one individual and one family formally asking the city for help with their housing. A year later, that number rose dramatically: 51 individuals and 20 families asked for housing assistance in...

By ETHAN DeWITT

When New Hampshire lawmakers consolidated the state’s public retirement systems in 1967, they offered cities and towns a deal: Add municipal employees to the system, and the state would pick up 35 percent of the cost.At the time, the offer was deemed...

By ETHAN DeWITT

Last year, Concord boosted the salaries of its police department by nearly $1 million above and beyond contractual raises.Those pay increases carried a hidden cost through rising contribution rates to the New Hampshire Retirement System, which will...

By ETHAN DeWITT

As national concern over sex trafficking grows, advocates in New Hampshire are focusing on one problem area: massage parlors.A number of massage outlets across the Granite State may be fronts for prostitution, victims’ advocates allege, citing...

By ETHAN DeWITT

Barring any last minute delays, the New Hampshire Senate looks set to take up a veto override vote and repeal New Hampshire’s death penalty Thursday morning.And with 17 of 24 senators previously voting in favor of the repeal bill – which Gov. Chris...

By ETHAN DeWITT

To the plaintiff, the settlement is no small sum: $275,000 paid by New Hampshire taxpayers after Ashley Rossiter brought a wrongful termination lawsuit against the state’s Division for Children, Youth and Families. But Rossiter says the message is...