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The next governor will inherit a statewide child care crisis that has persisted despite recent state and federal investments totaling more than $160 million. And to tackle it, she will get a tight budget that’s lost two key revenue streams: millions...

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Expect school vouchers, budget shortfalls, and the rights of transgender students to divide the Legislature next year. School bullying could, too.Lawmakers behind the renewed efforts to rein in bullying say their goal is to address shortcomings in the...

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Eleven days after a security guard was killed at the state psychiatric hospital, in November 2023, the Department of Safety gave Gov. Chris Sununu a list of recommended security enhancements for all state buildings. Sununu had requested the list,...

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Local Planned Parenthood officials joined their national counterparts Wednesday in raising concerns about vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance’s assurances that he and former President Donald Trump would defund the organization, including its...

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Lawmakers are scheduled to take up a bill Wednesday that would require death certificates to include the deceased’s recent immunizations – regardless of whether there was evidence the vaccine had contributed to the death. That data would then be made...

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The five-year journey Ed Mezzanotte and his wife, Lorraine, traveled before she lost her life to Alzheimer’s disease in August was marked by heartache, fear, loss, and tragedy. Lorraine wandered from home in the wee hours and vacillated between...

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State officials on Wednesday approved a new buyer for a 217-acre parcel in Laconia that’s proven hard to sell. But the buyer has two years to close, and the project may begin with commercial development, not the housing city officials say is...

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The state has chosen a new buyer for its 217-acre former Laconia State School property. The $10.5 million offer is about half what the state’s previous buyer offered but ultimately could not deliver.But a sale is not imminent.The Executive Council...

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When the state’s hospitals say they have problems at the front and back doors, this is what they mean.On a single day in early June, 79 much-needed hospital beds were occupied by people who were ready for discharge to a lower-level of care but...

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The Department of Health and Human Services is hoping to use nearly $12.4 million in federal money to address security shortcomings revealed during November’s fatal shooting of a state hospital guard and to accommodate the addition of a new forensic...

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Five years after the homicide of 5-year-old Dennis Vaughan Jr., a judge ordered his grandmother held without bail Monday in connection with his death, and on charges that she physically assaulted his three siblings and urged them to lie about...

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New Hampshire has been named the healthiest state in the country two years running by the United Health Foundation, largely because of its low rates of homicide, poverty, and unemployment. It’s doing considerably worse when it comes to deaths related...

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Dan Decoteau was on life support at Massachusetts General Hospital with a traumatic brain injury, hours from death, when the organ donor team asked his family to make an excruciating decision. Would they donate his organs and tissue to save other...

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New Hampshire lawmakers got the message last session. The state’s dire shortage of affordable child care options had reached crisis levels during the pandemic as providers lost staff to higher paying and less stressful jobs at retail stores and fast...

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The House candidate who told the Bulletin last week that he hoped voters would look past his 1989 second-degree murder conviction has suspended his campaign. Republican Mark Edgington told the Bulletin Monday that another outlet’s reporting on his...

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It took oral health advocates nearly 25 years to persuade lawmakers to provide adults on Medicaid coverage for basic dental care. Gail Brown, one of those advocates, said she saw that investment pay dividends in far less time.Brown was stopped this...

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At a time when national Republican leaders often struggle to talk about abortion restrictions they’ve supported, the New Hampshire Republican Party is making those restrictions central to its 2024 campaign strategy.  Last week, party Chairman Chris...

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The state has granted former state Sen. Andy Sanborn’s request for at least a three-week extension to sell the casino it ordered shuttered in December following allegations he misused nearly $844,000 in federal pandemic aid to enrich himself, $181,250...

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Two years ago, the House speaker appointed a special committee to solve or at least mitigate the child care crisis in New Hampshire. There’s disagreement among lawmakers and child care advocates about its success.Committee members have sent a few...

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Kangaroo ownership, rodent traps, brass knuckles. The bills you may have missed.You can continue pronouncing Concord however you like and use adhesive rodent traps, but brass knuckles remain illegal and you’ll still need a permit to adopt a...

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The state’s 26 hospitals stand to lose millions in state payments for uncompensated care with the collapse Thursday of negotiations between the governor, lawmakers, and the hospitals. With a deadline fast approaching and a legislative fix seemingly...