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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
For years, advocates pushing for marijuana legalization have highlighted that when it comes to policy, the live-free-or-die state stands on an island. With Maine and Massachusetts legalizing marijuana in 2016 and Vermont following suit in 2020, the...
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The New Hampshire Senate rejected a marijuana legalization bill Thursday, leaving it the only state in New England that makes smoking pot recreationally a crime.Republicans, who control the Senate in the Live Free or Die state, dismissed the bill on a...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
The mix of storefronts, apartment buildings and historic homes just off Main Street is the fabric of the City of Concord’s downtown. There’s a reason there aren’t large homes with front lawns next to the State House or apartment complexes in the...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
A five-day work week quickly becomes six at Community Mental Health Centers across the state, as managers consistently pick up extra shifts.As staffing shortages overlap with an increased demand for services, working extra is the new normal, according...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
If you ask Matt Wilhelm, affordable housing, public education and access to health care are core issues that drive voters to elect New Hampshire’s 400-member legislative body. These three factors were also the backbone of a bipartisan amendment...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
A new line could now appear on eviction notices – reaffirming a tenant’s right to legal counsel, and pointing them in the direction of assistance from New Hampshire Legal Aid. State lawmakers in the House passed House Bill 379, which proposes adding...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
After millions of dollars of aid for low-income families has ended, including pandemic-era rental assistance and increased food stamp benefits, the House of Representatives will vote on a budget Thursday that looks to continue support for the state’s...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
James Roesener was 12 years old when he learned what the word transgender meant.“I wish I could do that. That’s so lucky,” he thought. He knew, growing up, he didn’t identify with being a girl. And throughout high school at Merrimack Valley, he knew...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Gov. Chris Sununu isn’t shy about praising New Hampshire.He boasts that the Granite State is ranked No. 1 for personal freedoms and quips that if lawmakers in Washington D.C. took note of what happens in New Hampshire, they could learn something about...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
A piece of Gov. Chris Sununu’s proposed $14.9 billion budget plan reinforces the need to address the current housing shortage in New Hampshire. The New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority estimates it will take 20,000 new units by 2030 to meet the...
By HANAN BEDRI and GERRI CANNON
Hanan Bedri, MS, MA, is the executive director of New Hampshire Public Health Association. Gerri Cannon is a NH state representative. On the docket this legislative session is a bill (HB 368) meant to secure the privacy of anyone who comes to the...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
At a time when New Hampshire renters face soaring costs and low availability, state representatives favored landlords’ rights, killing four bills that would have increased protections for tenants.“I believe that it is our duty to empower the free...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Daniel Whitmore was out for a walk last September when the 75-year-old was fatally stabbed on a trail in Manchester. It was both a senseless and random act, and authorities were quick to point out the man charged with murder, a 40-year-old man who was...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Samantha Palmer was busy raising three kids of her own, while working full time, when she received an unexpected call last February. An estranged family member who was not a blood relative had her fourth child and it would be removed from her care.No...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
A three-part housing plan before the legislature could present new solutions to alleviate the current state-wide crisis.Senate Bill 231 would appropriate $75 million to tackle three areas pertaining to the housing crisis – support for the homeless,...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Leah Fagen and Andrew Mason know when you live in a place for six years, you collect stuff. A lot of stuff. They learned this the hard way, after unexpectedly packing up and moving out of their two-bedroom Concord apartment on short notice because...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
On any given day at the Waypoint Children’s Place and Education Center, Kelly Bozetarnik wears many different hats. Her formal role is the director. But most days at the child care center off of Loudon Road, she is a director, a teacher, an assistant...
By ETHAN DEWITT
New Hampshire cities and towns would be allowed to set their own rent controls on large developments – including limitations on how quickly rents could rise – under a bill proposed in the House this year. House Bill 95 would allow municipalities to...
By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
While lawmakers have filed over 800 bills addressing big issues such as abortion, education reform, climate change, and parental rights, their top priority will be passing a budget by July.Gov. Chris Sununu, whose proposal is due by Feb. 15, has...
By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
A Newmarket lawmaker has withdrawn a bill that would have added as much as a $15 hourly charge to search for, redact, and provide public records requested under the state’s right-to-know law. Currently the law allows public offices to charge only for...
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