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Committees help shape policy and revise bills as they work through the legislative process. The Finance Committee and the Ways and Means Committee will have particular power in the upcoming year as lawmakers craft the next state budget.
The candidates for New Hampshire governor spent the weekend crisscrossing the state, getting supporters fired up and making their final pitch to voters. In the crowd at the New England Arm Wrestling Championship in Nashua on Saturday afternoon, dozens of beefy guys sat waiting for their turn at the tables.
In 1936, President Franklin Roosevelt defeated Kansas' Gov. Alfred Landon in 46 of the 48 states, thereby creating the jest, "As Maine goes, so goes Vermont." Eight decades later, New England has gone from the Republicans' last redoubt in a bad year to their least receptive region in any year.
The spotlight New Hampshire enjoyed during its presidential primary hasn't dimmed heading into the general election, despite the state's paltry four Electoral College votes. But the candidates differ significantly in how much they're sharing it.
When death, as public as a President or as private as a lover, overwhelms us, it speaks itself in elegy's necropoetics. Kenyon and I almost avoided marriage because her widowhood would have been so long, between us was there such a radical difference in age.
A former Nottingham state representative used pot in the State House and sold it to a handful of state legislators, an investigation by the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office revealed.
Appealing to elusive young voters, Hillary Clinton turned to former primary adversary Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to connect with millennials drawn to third-party candidates threatening to act as spoilers in the 2016 campaign. "None of this will happen if you don't turn out and vote," Clinton said on stage at the University of New Hampshire while flanked by Sanders, who overwhelmed her in the state's first-in-the-nation primary nine months ago.
Keeping people from taking photographs of their own ballot to preserve the sanctity of the polling place is like "burning down the house to roast a pig," a federal appeals court said Wednesday as it ended New Hampshire's ban on so-called ballot selfies. The three judges from the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston unanimously upheld a lower court ruling that had struck down the state ban.
The debate over debates is rarely a productive piece of any campaign. In the U.S. Senate race between Sen. Kelly Ayotte and Gov. Maggie Hassan, the two candidates have already agreed to six debates, five of which will be broadcast on radio or TV.
CONCORD, N.H. >> New Hampshire candidates for governor and Congress are squaring off Tuesday in primary contests for a chance to represent their parties in the November election. The September primary is among the latest in the country, with voters in Delaware, New York and Rhode Island also heading to the polls that day.
The state Attorney General's Office and State Police Major Crime Unit are investigating a suspicious death at a residence on Caramel Drive in Danville Emilio Guerrero belted a solo homer and Dwight Smith Jr. and Ian Parmley each drove in a run as New Hampshire ended its 2013 season with a 3-1 Eastern League triumph over Portland before a Labor ... (more)
The federal government's refusal Thursday to allow marijuana for medical treatment caused both sides of the New Hampshire debate over pot use to dig in and prepare for continued warfare at the State... An antique store is already moving into a former nail salon on Broadway near Manning Street, and a home improvement store could also possibly be ... (more)
Brazil unfurled a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population to the tune of samba, bossa nova and funk in welcoming the world on Friday to the... Employment jumped in July for a second month and wages climbed, pointing to renewed vigor in the U.S. labor market that will sustain consumer spending ... (more)
In response to a drought-stricken season for New Hampshire farmers, Gov. Maggie Hassan requested Thursday that the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack issue a drought disaster declaration for three of the state's counties. The USDA Farm Service Agency's State Emergency Board voted Wednesday to seek the disaster declaration.
EXETER – Exeter Hospital Rehabilitation Services has just introduced a new and innovative approach to rehabilitation with the AlterG anti-gravity treadmill, one of only a few in the state of New Hampshire. This new treadmill enables physical and occupational therapists to care for patients who are not able to bear weight due to recent surgery, injury or chronic pain.
State Republican Party Chairwoman Jennifer Horn described the group of 150 Granite Staters who sweltered in a vacant, crumbling asphalt lot outside of a shuttered lightbulb factory to hear Donald Trump as "good, solid New Hampshire voters." Horn was the highest-ranking state GOP official to attend the event at the former Osram Sylvania facility, along with a few state representatives and a group of well-known veterans leaders.