Summer camps in New Hampshire generate $113 million annually in direct economic impact, according to a report produced by the American Camp Association’s New England chapter.
The Northeast Economic Impact Report examined nine states in the Northeast including Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. Regionally, over 6,000 summer camps contribute $3.2 billion annually to the economy. | More…
| NHBR
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says the government can’t refuse to register trademarks that are considered offensive.
The ruling Monday is a win for an Asian-American rock band called the Slants and it gives a major boost to the Washington Redskins in their separate legal fight over the team name.
The justices said part of a law that bars the government from registering disparaging trademarks violates free speech rights. | More…
Five months after its introduction and first hearing, four months after its passage in the New Hampshire Senate, three months after its House hearing, and days after its House passage, language has been discovered in a fetal homicide bill that allegedly would permit assisted suicide and allow pregnant women to get away with murder.
House and Senate are scheduled to vote on a “fix” for that drafting error on Thursday, June 22. | More…
As the New Hampshire legislative session quickly comes to a close, the public hearings for the controversial Northern Pass project are just beginning to heat up. Thursday marked the first of three scheduled public statement hearings in Concord for people who are not intervenors in the project but have an interest in what happens.
The 192-mile proposed transmission line from Pittsburg to Deerfield would bring roughly 1,090 megawatts of hydropower from Quebec to the New England power grid. Proponents say the $1.6 billion project could reduce the state’s high electricity costs and encourage businesses to move to New Hampshire. | More…
7th century Islam is 21st century Islam. There is no difference. Those who attempt to differentiate are implying Islam has changed somewhere along the way. This hypothesis has no support from authoritative Islamic doctrine and never will. Muslims who do not adhere to sharia do not constitute another “version” of Islam. Muslims who do not obey Allah’s commands found in the Koran and the example of Mohammad are called “Apostates” and are killed under sharia. | More…
The left always likes to believe they are super smart but it seems odd that they still haven’t figured out why they lost the last election, not just at the federal level but across the country at the state level as well.
Rather than reflect on why they lost, they are doubling-down and doing the exact same things that drove their own party members to vote for Trump as well as millions of regular Americans. It wasn’t just that Hillary was a terrible candidate or is the most corrupt politician in the United States, it’s the left’s own behavior over the past 8 years that drove people away. | More…
EXETER — Family, friends, faculty and students are mourning the sudden death of School Administrative Unit 16 Superintendent Michael Morgan.
The 67-year-old administrator from Brentwood died Sunday morning — just two weeks after announcing that he would be taking a medical leave of at least six to eight weeks beginning June 5 after dealing with some health issues that involved various tests. | More…
*| Union Leader
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — An increasing number of organ donations in New Hampshire are coming from people who have died of overdoses.
New England Donor Services says in 2016, 92 organ donors had died of a drug overdose. WMUR-TV reports the percentage of organ donors who were overdose victims rose from 4 percent to 27 percent in a five-year time span. | More…
| AP
A high-level employee at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2014 appeared to give leaders of liberal-leaning groups preferential treatment for posting and publicizing comments on the agency’s public forum for the net neutrality debate.
Details of the highly friendly support were first described by then-The Washington Post’s Nancy Scola, who referred to it as an “unusual collaboration” in an in-depth report on the FCC’s filing system. Those details became significantly more incriminating after Mike Wendy, director of the market-oriented nonprofit MediaFreedom, recently received once-classified pieces of electronic communications years after he filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Wendy alleges that, along with other conservative organizations, they were not given the same effortful and enthusiastic treatment their liberal counterparts received. | More…
California is currently struggling with yet another budget deadline and the legislature has sent a bill to the desk of Governor Jerry Brown which takes care of a few bits of housekeeping on that front. Along with the usual tax hikes and sleight-of-hand to move taxpayer dollars around, they’re “modernizing” the new marijuana industry by allowing pot samples at county fairs and home delivery of weed. (What could possibly go wrong?) But there’s a poison pill buried in with the rest of these scattershot measures which once again aims to further cripple immigration law enforcement. The state plans to forbid any expenditures slated for new beds for immigration detention or any new contracts for work on immigration detention centers. | More…
| HotAir
The New Media Militia 