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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
As town officials ramp up spending year after year, people like Ray Olivier can’t keep up. On Saturday, the challenge for Oliver and other residents on fixed incomes became more pronounced after Pembroke voters approved a $11.6 million budget, which...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Senate president Jeb Bradley will not seek another term this fall, ending a 15-year run in the State House for the former U.S. Congressman.Bradley, a Wolfeboro Republican, informed colleagues of his decision at the end of the Senate session on...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
New Hampshire has the lowest poverty rate in New England, yet Black residents in the state are three times more likely to live below the poverty line than their white neighbors.For every $1 a white Granite Stater makes, their Black counterpart is paid...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Every time Leanna Kenza laces up her sneakers and steps on the track, it gives her reprieve from the day-to-day drama of eighth grade and the chance to find a new friend.While most Rundlett Middle School parents were enrolling their kids in sports in...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Down every street in Dover, reminders of his late wife Stephanie followed Larry Regan. After she passed, he headed towards Concord to start anew. It’s taken a while for that to feel like a reality, but the day has finally come. For the last three...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Four years after a commission to study law enforcement in New Hampshire produced a series of recommendations about better policing practices, people of color continue to be disproportionally incarcerated in the state at virtually the same rates. For...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Maggie Doorlag said she could picture her life outside the walls of the women’s prison, where she’d spent the last 17 months. She’d be reunited with her husband and two young daughters. She would get her cosmetology license and continue with...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Diane Ricciardelli, the former town administrator in Warner, was placed on administrative leave from her new job in Newbury recently after an emergency non-public select board meetingScott Wheeler, the chair of the Newbury Board of Selectmen,...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
After seven months leading the Division of Children, Youth and Families, Jeff Fleischer has resigned from his post as director.Flesicher began in the role in August after coming out of retirement to lead the state agency. He previously served as the...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
The last time Anna Bates figured she was in the State House was for the annual field trip all New Hampshire fourth graders take.As she took her seat in the gallery Thursday, the cacophony on the House floor, and jargon that goes with it – voice votes,...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Becca Ivancso knows that a teenager in a tent isn’t often what first comes to mind when people think of homelessness. But that’s the reality for a number of young people in New Hampshire.There’s no state oversight of these youth, who typically begin...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
New Hampshire politicians agree that the state is in an unprecedented housing crisis. Home prices continue to remain at record highs and rental inventory is limited. But when it comes to solutions, protecting tenants’ rights and forcing landlords to...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
A lack of housing options forces many adults with intellectual disabilities to live at home with family, while others wait for a spot at a group home to clear. But what’s exceedingly rare and hard to find is independent living.A new project in...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Becky Whitley gets the chills when she thinks back to introducing Senate Bill 175 last year, in front of the Health and Human Services Committee. It’s niche excitement for a routine hearing, but as Whitley talked through her “MomniBus” package –...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Bette Hill had one goal when her mom remarried and her family traded Concord for California when she was 14 years old – to move back “home.”It took her 56 years, but in 2010 after raising five kids, Hill returned to New Hampshire and settled down in...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Despite a forecast for snow, heavy rain and high winds Wednesday night into Thursday, the Concord Coalition to End Homelessness will not reopen their emergency winter shelter for the night.The shelter, which is open from December through March, to...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Julie Jussif feels sick to her stomach when she thinks about her current mortgage rate. When she bought her second home to size up for her young family, the interest was lightyears above her first. With a competitive housing market, she waived the...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Colin Van Ostern, a former state Executive Councilor with a long resume as a political operative, will run for Congress this fall, he announced Thursday, the day after U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster announced she would not seek a seventh term.Van...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Chris Sununu will celebrate his 50th birthday by turning over his seat in New Hampshire’s corner office. For a while, he thought the best birthday present would be going from a four-term state leader to President of the United States.Instead, he’ll...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
A bill that would ease New Hampshire’s eviction process will now head to the Senate after House members passed the measure 194 to 180 on Thursday. Today, if a landlord wanted to terminate a lease with a tenant at the end of the contract, they are...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
It takes David Emerson an extra second these days to climb his ladder and drill a bolt into the beam overhead. At 81, he’s built a number of structures, including his own 3-bedroom home on his 25-acre property in Canterbury.His newest new project is a...
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