By SHERRY BOSCHERT
Sherry Boschert is the author of “37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination.” She lives in Lebanon. Republicans in the state House of Representatives recently narrowly passed a bill targeting transgender kids on a party-line...
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 SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Owen Lanman and his friends stood guard near the color-coded bins in Maple Street school’s cafeteria, ensuring every student dumped their lunch leftovers into the appropriate receptacles designated for compost, recycling and landfill.“I like doing it...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Despite some pushback from the teacher’s union, the Concord School Board stayed the course on plans it made Monday to reduce the number of teaching positions in elementary schools to keep pace with a shrinking student population. The board voted 8-1...
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...
The director of New England College’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program is the new Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.Jennifer Militello was nominated by Gov. Chris Sununu and recently confirmed by the Executive Council. Her five-year term...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
As heavy machinery makes way for a new parking garage for lawmakers, some Concord residents and officials have wondered whether the new structure will help ease the pressure on downtown parking.The answer, according to state and city leaders, has yet...
Weare Middle School choir celebrates Music in our Schools Month with a performance outside the State House on Wednesday.
By FRANCES MIZE
In February, unionized graduate student-workers at Dartmouth decided that if they continued to feel that the college was stalling on contract negotiations, they’d walk off the job.They weren’t bluffing.On Wednesday at noon, more than 150 graduate...
By ANNMARIE TIMMINS
The state has given its chosen buyer until April 22 to “put up or shut up” and close on a $21.5 million land deal for the former 220-acre Laconia State School property. The buyer and her team have requested three extensions since winning the bid to...
By NARAIN BATRA
Narain Batra is the author of several books including the most recent “India In A New Key: Nehru To Modi.” He is working on new book, “There’s Nothing Like The Indian Democracy.” He lives in Hartford, Vermont. Last June in a White House meeting,...
By GABRIEL PERRY
Laconia city council approved the purchase of 601 Main St., current site of the Laconia Antique Center, in a 4-2 vote following hours of discussion at their regular meeting Monday night.The city will purchase the back two thirds of the building for...
A more resilient NHTen years ago, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marked a turning point in ensuring equitable healthcare coverage nationwide. Louis Karno & Company proudly played a pivotal role in this transformation, particularly in New Hampshire,...
Alexei Navalny’s killer Vladimir Putin is no misunderstood or “demonized” despot as Bruce Currie alleges. Putin has a lengthy history of having his political opponents eliminated through extrajudicial executions. On March 17, 2023, the International...
President Biden, Israel’s latest illegal land-grab continues a systematic practice which has been going on for decades and which creates the seeds for groups like Hamas. It violates international law, the spirit, if not the letter, of UN Security...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
In Kadyn Dean’s favorite class at the Pembroke Hill School, she works with robots, builds cardboard houses, and helps maintain a local hiking trail. In the past week, the third grader learned the class – called ILAB – is not expected to continue next...
By DAYMOND STEER
The Main Street Program’s president says she was blindsided by the Ossipee selectmen’s plan to tear down the Main Street building, which the board discussed in public last week.The Main Street Program, according to its Facebook page, is a non-profit...
By ELIZABETH HARPER
Elizabeth Harper, PhD is the executive director of the Lake Sunapee Protective Association. It isn’t surprising that many New Hampshire residents are unfamiliar with wake boats and may not feel compelled to urge their representatives in the House to...
By DAVID BROOKS
The region’s last coal-fired power plants, located in Bow and Portsmouth, are expected to switch to large-scale solar power and battery-storage under plans put forward by their owner, Granite Shore Power, marking New Hampshire’s first big transition...
By RICK GREEN
The N.H. House Finance Committee on Tuesday recommended, 13-11, that the full House reject a bill that would expand eligibility for free lunches for children in public schools.It was a party-line vote with Republicans against House Bill 1212 and...
By JOSH ROGERS
A top Republican budget writer in the New Hampshire House has proposed boosting state aid to public schools by $400 million a year and requiring any future education spending increase made at the local level to be approved by a supermajority...
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