BELMONT — A 46-year-old Belmont man recently indicted for attempted aggravated felonious sexual assault was shot and killed Saturday following an incident with a Belmont police officer, law enforcement sources said.
Joseph Mazzitelli, whose last known address is listed as 11 Dock Road in Belmont, was brought to Lakes Region General Hospital for treatment, but died from his injuries following the 2:30 p.m. incident. *| More…
State probes fatal officer-involved shooting at Belmont gas station
Senate panel investigating surging Medicaid costs in …New Hampshire…
The soaring costs of Medicaid expansion in eight U.S. states – including Michigan, Ohio, New Hampshire and Illinois, is under investigation by a U.S. Senate committee.
Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, sent letters Wednesday to the governors of the eight states asking about the increasing costs that “go far beyond” initial projections. | More…
Posted in Debt/Spending, Economy/Economics, Health Care
Tagged Medicaid, Medicaid Expansion
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The New Hampshire Advantage in One Chart
There is perhaps no greater goal for the Granite Institute than fighting to preserve and extend the New Hampshire Advantage. Historically this means no income or sales tax, but maintaining our advantage into the future will entail other important policy changes such as increasing educational choices and enacting right-to-work. | More…
What YOU can do to change your Property Tax Rate…
he most important [thing] that you must know is that YOU do have a say in how much property tax you pay.
Become a local government expert. The best place to go for a basic understanding of how local government works is the NH Municipal Association’s web site. Use their search bar in the upper right corner of the homepage. Type in Annual meeting and find a whole slew full of writings. | More…
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Property Rights, taxes
Tagged Bruce Trivellini, Budgets. Taxes
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There is no NH Seacoast cancer cluster
Nowhere in the DHHS Investigation of RMS Cases report of 2016, not the summary, nor the body, do they actually declare a cluster present. Please re-read that sentence. Are we to infer cluster status from the statistical analysis? In DHHS’ analysis, they used a value of one-half for an expected number of cases – you cannot have a half-case. | More…
California Moves Up Presidential Primary, Political Implications Abound
California announced this week it will hold its 2020 presidential primary on March 3, moving up three months in a decision with the potential for an intriguing political impact.
Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed the Prime Time Primary Act into law on Sept. 27, designating California’s primary be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of March. This means California will likely follow the Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries in the nominating schedule. | More…
UNH nixes fireworks at football to create safe space for horses
DURHAM — The University of New Hampshire Department of Athletics announced the fireworks show after the Saturday, Sept. 30 football game (6 p.m., ESPN3) between the 15th-ranked Wildcats and Bryant University were cancelled to support the UNH Fall Horse Trials this weekend. *| More…
UNH: Sex assault down, hate crimes up
UNH’s Durham campus saw a 50 percent decrease in the amount of on-campus rapes in 2016 in comparison to the previous year. Campus rates of crime in 2016, not including the categories of fondling, domestic violence, liquor laws arrests, drug law arrests and hate crime, saw a decrease or remained the same as in 2015, according to data released by the UNH Police Department on Sept. 27 in accordance with the Clery Act. Similar data was reflected in the crime reports for the Manchester campus and the UNH School of Law campus in Concord. | More…
Not A Lot Of Syphilis in NH But NY Ranked #1
Centers for Disease Control – Sexually transmitted disease (STD) rates across the country are going up for the third year in a row according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
New York ranked highest in our region for reported cases of syphilis at 5th out of the 50 states in 2016 with 2,455 reported cases.
Vermont ranked 37th with 23 cases.
New Hampshire was 44th with 40 cases. |Link
Boo Hoo – “Bias Incident” Reported at Dartmouth College
In an email addressed to West House residents this evening, West House professor Ryan Hickox and assistant director of residential education for West House Ted Stratton wrote that a bias incident had been reported as of Sunday night.
The incident occurred in the hallway of Fahey Hall and consisted of racist and sexist graffiti targeting specific members of the community on the hallway’s bulletin board. | More…
The New Media Militia 