Tag Archives: New Hampshire
Teacher jobs shrinking in New Hampshire
Teaching jobs in New Hampshire are projected to shrink by the end of next year. The Concord Monitor reports that the education industry is expected to contract by 508 jobs between 2016 and 2018 even as the state sees an … Continue reading
Medicaid Assists More Than 185,000 New Hampshire Residents (as if That’s a Good Thing)
This is an interesting take on the Medicaid situation in NH. Follow the link to look at the graph (so you can feel the expansion of Medicaid with your eyes) and the breakdown of whom it supposedly serves. One of … Continue reading
Posted in Budgets, Debt/Spending, Health Care
Tagged Medicaid, Medicaid Expansion, New Hampshire
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NH Police Grapple with New Marijuana Decriminalization Rules
Police departments across the state are coming to grips with how to deal with people caught possessing marijuana after New Hampshire became the 22nd state to decriminalize the drug on Tuesday. Police departments throughout the Granite State have until Sept. … Continue reading
Posted in Drugs
Tagged Decriminalization, enforcement, Marijuana, New Hampshire, Police
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Man contracts flesh-eating bacteria while hiking in New Hampshire
NORWELL, Mass. (WHDH) — It started as a hiking trip in New Hampshire, but ended with a South Florida man being on the verge of death. Wayne Atkins, 32, of Miami, has been hospitalized since Father’s Day weekend after doctors … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, New Hampshire News
Tagged Flesh Eating Bacteria, Hiking, Miami, New Hampshire, Wayne Atkins
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Gov. Chris Sununu to Cut 1,600 Regulations
WINCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republican Gov. Chris Sununu is heading to a hair salon do to some cutting, but not hair. Sununu will be at the Cuts on Main salon in Winchester on Thursday to announce the elimination of more … Continue reading
New Hampshire’s Most Hated Topic: God
Here’s a dating app for you. It’s called Hater. It operates under the premise that people who hate the same things are more likely to form a strong bond. So much for NOH8, right, because dollars to doughnuts says the overwhelming majority … Continue reading
More NH Mayors Commit to Meaningless Paris Agreement Gesture
So will their towns be burning more coal or writing checks to Turkey and the UN? Today, the Conservation League and the New Hampshire chapter of the Sierra Club will host a roundtable featuring New Hampshire mayors or their representatives who … Continue reading
On Upcoming Local Elections
At this moment, the Secretary of State’s web site lists six special elections coming up. One will be over by the time this is posted (you won’t be shocked to hear from me that a Democrat won a seat for a Concord … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Leaven for the Loaf
Tagged Ellen Kolb, Leaven for the Loaf, New Hampshire, Special Election
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RCP: In Defense of New Hampshire’s First in the Nation Primary
Sure, it’s an institution with plenty of flaws, but to paraphrase Winston Churchill’s assessment of democracy, the New Hampshire primary is the worst way to begin the process of picking presidents … except for all of the other ways. | … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, National News, National Politics & Policy
Tagged Donald Trump, FITN, New Hampshire, Primary
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Special Budweiser packaging will celebrate New Hampshire
MERRIMACK, N.H. —Budweiser is unveiling new bottle and can designs for the summer, and one of them celebrates the Granite State and the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Merrimack. The New Hampshire can features our state name, our “live free or die” … Continue reading
The New Media Militia 