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Opinion: Targeting transgender kids, ignoring real problems
03-28-2024 3:33 PM

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...

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Despite tough market, New Hampshire housing optimistic about policy and production
03-28-2024 5:11 PM

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...


From lunch trays to garden beds: Hopkinton students compost food waste
03-28-2024 5:09 PM

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...


School Board approves $107.9 million budget
03-28-2024 4:22 PM

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...


Van Ostern ready to jump in as soon as Kuster steps down
03-28-2024 3:44 PM

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...


New England College professor is state’s new Poet Laureate
03-28-2024 3:29 PM

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...


Will new legislative garage behind State House ease downtown parking?
03-28-2024 2:24 PM

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...


Video: Weare Middle School choir celebrates Music in our Schools Month at the State House
03-28-2024 1:24 PM

Weare Middle School choir celebrates Music in our Schools Month with a performance outside the State House on Wednesday.


Dartmouth graduate student union stages walkout as bargaining talks falter
03-28-2024 12:28 PM

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...


State says its buyer has four weeks to ‘put up or shut up’ and close Laconia land deal
03-28-2024 9:46 AM

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...


Opinion: Nehru, Tagore and Robert Frost at 150
03-28-2024 6:00 AM

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,...


Laconia votes to move forward with antique center purchase, splitting building with restaurateur
03-27-2024 4:25 PM

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...


Letter: A more resilient NH
03-27-2024 4:00 PM

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,...


Letter: Ukraine and Russian dissidents fighting for freedom
03-27-2024 4:00 PM

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...


Letter: Israel’s latest land grab
03-27-2024 4:00 PM

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...


Pembroke School Board mulls major cuts to next year’s budget
03-27-2024 3:54 PM

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...


Ossipee Main Street blindsided by parking lot plan
03-27-2024 3:44 PM

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...


Opinion: Why regular folks should care about wake sport legislation
03-27-2024 3:27 PM

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...


Bow power plant to add solar and batteries; coal use to end by 2028
03-27-2024 11:54 AM

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...


NH House panel recommends against bill to make more kids eligible for free lunch
03-27-2024 11:46 AM

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...


NH lawmakers are reviewing a new GOP school funding plan
03-27-2024 11:31 AM

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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