The nine Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states participating in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative announced a set of proposals Wednesday for how the so-called “cap and trade” program could continue after 2020, when the current rules expire.
The new plan calls for a 30 percent reduction in carbon emissions by utilities from 2020 to 2030. *| More…
An Upper Valley nonprofit that serves veterans is being shut down after an investigation by the Attorney General’s office found evidence of fraud.
Project VetCare provides housing and support to military veterans, as well as a meeting place for students at Dartmouth College who are veterans. The non-profit, which was formed in 2012, owns two houses in Hanover.
According to a preliminary investigation released Thursday by the state’s Charitable Trust Unit, Danielle Goodwin, the group’s executive director, used donated funds to purchase a Florida cruise vacation, …More
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Colin Raffio, a UNH junior finance major with a political science minor, had just finished his lunch at Holloway Commons on an early fall day when he started making his way toward the exit. Upon reaching the stairs, he noticed two girls staring at him. When he passed by them, the girls cursed at him, saying, “f–k you and your shirt.” “I said ‘ok’ and just walked away. I just kind of laughed,” Raffio said. | More….
The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, led by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Vice President Mike Pence, will meet at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., on Sept. 12 at 10 a.m., according to a notice in the Federal Register.
The first meeting, held in Washington, D.C., in July, was met with legal challenges from several groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a complaint saying the meeting should be held in public. In response to an injunction sought by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a federal judge ruled that livestreaming the event, which was held in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, was sufficient. | More…
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The New Hampshire Breastfeeding Task Force recently awarded Southwestern Community Services, Goodwin Community Health, W.S. Badger and Hannaford’s Supermarket in Plymouth for their lactation support programs. All four businesses received the Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace award for developing a breastfeeding policy, allowing flexible break times and providing a designated private space for milk expression. | More…
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DURHAM — Senior Megan Esperance, incoming co-chair of the Black Student Union, had never feared for her safety on the 91-percent white University of New Hampshire campus – until this past spring.
“Going to Holloway Commons (dining hall), I was terrified, I didn’t want to sit by myself,” said Esperance, who was born and raised in Manchester and up until this May was “used to being one of the only black girls in white spaces.” | More…
This week’s U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force Fugitive of the Week is behind bars, according to Deputy Marshal Jeffrey White. Adam Walter Searles, 28, was arrested on Aug. 24, 2017, on an outstanding arrest warrant issued back in May by the Strafford County Superior Court for bail violations stemming from original charges of burglary, credit card fraud and drug offenses.
Searles, who has a number of priors, was featured yesterday and since that time, task force members – including members from the Strafford, Rockingham, Hillsborough and Belknap County Sheriff’s Offices, Federal Protective Service, along with deputy U.S. Marshals – “developed information indicating that Searles was residing with a known associate on Abbey Lane in Dover,” White stated. | More…
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Do you think it is appropriate for school board members to have occasional work from the district they are charged with overseeing?
Tonight your school board will be talking about “Conflicts of Interest.” Thanks to Right to Know information I received today (and paid $2.50 for), I will be bringing some rare facts to the table. | More…
Dartmouth College professor, Mark Bray was on Meet the Press where he advocated for preemptive violence by groups like AntiFA. …
Bray, who is a visiting scholar at the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth (GRID) has views so extreme that Southern Poverty Law Center president Richard Cohen took issue with them. Read the whole thing! | More…
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