A U.S. Department of Energy report is recommending that the Northern Pass project receive a presidential permit — a key approval for the transmission project to proceed.
“DOE’s proposed action and agency preferred alternative is to issue a presidential permit for the project,” said the final environmental impact report, released Thursday.
Federal agencies often have at least a 30-day waiting period before they make a proposed action final. *| More…
Jerry DeLemus, the 62-year-old Rochester man serving a six-year prison term for his role in Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s armed standoff in 2014 has been permanently moved to the federal prison at Fort Devens in Ayer, Mass., his wife said.
Former state Rep. Susan DeLemus said she hasn’t spoken to her husband for nine days while he’s been “quarantined” and processed since his move from a Nevada prison to Devens, 90 minutes from their home. *| More…
Thousands of people attended the 4-day-long Cheshire Fair, but some vendors have turned them from coming back.
People took to the fair’s Facebook page following the events that lasted from Aug. 3-6 to share their dismay for vendors selling Confederate flags and “Black Flies Matter” T-shirts.
“This is an event that is open to the public, and all people should feel safe and welcomed when in attendance. That cannot be possible with such symbols of hatred clearly displayed. I will not support an event that allows ignorant and hurtful vendors,” Jess Parker wrote in her one-star review. | Mode…
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Currently, we lead the Ivies in the number of kids coming from 1% families (20.7%), and only Princeton has fewer students from the bottom 60% of family income (we only have 14.4% of undergraduates from this cohort). | More…
And while we’re skewering diversity, more DartBlog
Rich started the hour by informing the listeners about who would be hosting the show while he is away on vacation. He then played a clip in which Dr. Everett Piper, President of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, discussed what’s wrong with the state of the university system. Finally, he shared his opinion on the matter and reminded the listeners about the run-in that he had with the Granite State Organizing Project. | More…
One aspect of the threat from North Korea that doesn’t get addressed seriously enough is the regime is either unable or unwilling to accurately assess the risks of its actions. It’s as if the entire Pyongyang government has no sense of what kind of provocation is so serious that its foes will retaliate with force. Put aside the regime’s blustery threats; look at what the North Korean government and its military actually does: | More…
If you’ve been plagued with phone calls from unfamiliar, out-of-state numbers, you’re not alone. New Hampshire is among the top five states that have seen a double-digit increase in robocalls over the past year, according to YouMail, a provider of cloud-based telecommunication services that offers a free service to stop robocalls. Though the numbers are estimates, the Federal Communications Commission has cited YouMail’s Robocall Index as a source for national data trends. | More…
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New Hampshire Public radio has a lengthy screed about why former Quarterback Colin Kaepernick doesn’t have a job. They quote players, experts, and none of them ever gets to the actual point of the problem. A situation that anyone who has every worn a uniform as part of their job ought to understand.
You can’t just do whatever you want in the company uniform because it is a reflection of that business. | More…
Governor Christopher Sununu has sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to make funds available to health insurance companies that participate in state run Obamacare health insurance exchanges. Saying that the companies can’t operate well in an uncertain environment, the governor asked the President to fund the Obamacare subsidies for people in the exchanges for t 2 0 1 7 and 2 0 1 8. He also asked for money to stabilize state insurance markets, noting the forty plus percent increase that will hit New Hampshire’s exchange participants this year.
In making that ask, he said the waiver process currently in place should be eliminated so as to reward, not punish, states that are working toward market-based solutions. | More…
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CONCORD – House Speaker Shawn Jasper (R-Hudson) and House Majority Leader Dick Hinch (R-Merrimack) issued statements in reaction to the dismissal of a suit brought by the ACLU and 2 elected members of the New Hampshire Legislature against New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner seeking to block the release of voter checklist information to the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity.
House Speaker Shawn Jasper: | More…
The New Media Militia 