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Andy Sanborn’s pandemic fraud charges are similar — and unlike — others in NH
10-22-2024 10:40 AM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Concord Casino owner Andy Sanborn’s arrest Oct. 16 for alleged pandemic fraud is the most recent but not sole COVID-19 fraud case brought by state and federal authorities in New Hampshire since 2022. In all, authorities have announced charges against...


Ban going into effect next year aims to cut food waste, greenhouse gas emissions
10-21-2024 4:32 PM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

When food ends up in landfills, it releases large amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas much more potent than carbon dioxide. A state law that goes into effect early next year aims to cut that source.The Department of Environmental Services is ramping...


‘Home school’ driver’s education model gets the OK from NH House committee
10-20-2024 4:00 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT

Republicans on the House Transportation Committee are recommending legislation allowing families to provide a “home school” version of driver’s education.House Bill 55 would end the requirement that teenagers between 15 and 18 years old take an...


Geno Marconi, director of the New Hampshire Port Authority, indicted on two felony charges
10-20-2024 2:00 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT

Director of the New Hampshire Port Authority Geno Marconi was indicted Thursday on two felony charges of witness tampering and falsifying physical evidence — a day after his wife, Supreme Court Associate Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi, was also...


Craig and Ayotte agree there’s a child care crisis. Neither commit to more state funding.
10-18-2024 3:01 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The next governor will inherit a statewide child care crisis that has persisted despite recent state and federal investments totaling more than $160 million. And to tackle it, she will get a tight budget that’s lost two key revenue streams: millions...


New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice Anna Marconi indicted on two felony charges
10-17-2024 2:32 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT

Associate Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi has been indicted on two felonies by a grand jury for allegedly interfering with the criminal investigation of her husband, according to the New Hampshire Attorney...


Sanborn moves — again — for more time to sell casino over state’s objections
10-17-2024 8:35 AM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Hopes dashed that the state would clear the way for him to sell his casino by a Friday deadline, Andy Sanborn has moved to keep the clock running in hopes he can still close a deal. The state is objecting, arguing that Sanborn shouldn’t have gotten...


What’s next after Legislature overturned veto of bill targeting cyanobacteria
10-15-2024 5:01 PM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Living on Arlington Pond in Salem, N.H., Republican Rep. Lorie Ball saw the state’s cyanobacteria problem up close. The blooms, and frustration from neighbors, led her to sponsor a bill to stem the fertilizer runoff that can feed them.That bill made a...


Civic health indicators on decline since pandemic, UNH researchers find
10-14-2024 3:01 PM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

There has been a sharp decline since before the pandemic in the share of Granite Staters who feel they matter in their communities, researchers found in a report released Tuesday.It’s one of several indicators of civic health — defined by researchers...


Legislature overrides Sununu’s veto on bill aimed at cyanobacteria blooms
10-12-2024 6:30 PM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

The Legislature on Thursday overrode the governor’s veto of a bill that puts limits on fertilizers with the aim of reducing cyanobacteria blooms.The measure, House Bill 1293, further restricts the use of certain phosphorus-containing fertilizers and...


Breaking with Sununu, Legislature overrides veto on administrative rules process
10-12-2024 5:00 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT and CLAIRE SULLIVAN

When New Hampshire state agencies seek to pass new administrative rules, they must hold public hearings and hear suggestions. But they aren’t required to follow those suggestions, and if they choose not to, they do not need to give a reason why.That...


Unsealed records show Sanborn – and judge – questioned state’s handling of search warrant
10-09-2024 8:00 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Andy Sanborn’s fight against the state to keep his gaming license long enough to sell his casino has played out publicly for over a year. Since at least May, his lawyers have been waging a second battle behind closed doors, this one over records and...


Federal court gives mixed signals in free speech case over parents protesting transgender athletes
10-09-2024 7:04 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT

The standoff began over email.A day before the Bow High School junior varsity girls’ soccer team was set to face off on home turf against the Plymouth Regional High School’s team — a team that included a transgender female player — Bow’s athletic...


Pandemic funds to bring mini herb gardens, hydroponic farms to schools
10-09-2024 8:31 AM

By CLAIRE SULLIVAN

Miniature herb gardens and compact hydroponic farms are headed to New Hampshire schools after the Executive Council approved using federal funds for the purchases last week.For about $12,000 total, 1,200 mini herb gardens will be distributed to...


Institute of Politics poll shows Harris, Ayotte holding leads
10-07-2024 6:00 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The latest poll from the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College suggests voters continue to be open to splitting their ticket in November.Vice President Kamala Harris led former President Donald Trump by seven percentage points in...


NH Supreme Court not likely to overturn Claremont school funding decisions, per court order
10-07-2024 6:00 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT

 The New Hampshire Supreme Court appears unlikely to overturn the landmark Claremont school funding decisions from the 1990s in the latest round of school funding lawsuits, according to a court order.The announcement signals that the court is not...


Amid fraught landscape, school districts react differently to transgender sports ban law
10-05-2024 4:01 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT

In August, the Kearsarge Regional School Board took up a thorny question: How should it comply with a new law barring transgender girls from middle and high school sports?Earlier that summer, Gov. Chris Sununu had signed the law, House Bill 1205,...


Two Lebanon providers participate in Medicare pilot project to rethink paying for dementia care
10-03-2024 2:43 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The five-year journey Ed Mezzanotte and his wife, Lorraine, traveled before she lost her life to Alzheimer’s disease in August was marked by heartache, fear, loss, and tragedy. Lorraine wandered from home in the wee hours and vacillated between...


Executive Council approves $5.9 million to help New Hampshire’s nonprofit health centers cover operating losses
09-30-2024 6:00 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The state’s nonprofit health centers that serve 85,000 patients in mostly rural parts of the state are getting $5.9 million to help with operating losses. As part of the federal funding approved Wednesday by the Executive Council, the nine “federally...


State expects to spend $200,000 to defend against school funding lawsuits
09-29-2024 8:00 PM

By ETHAN DEWITT

The New Hampshire Department of Justice is projecting it will spend about $200,000 in the next year to defend the state’s school finance laws from a pair of lawsuits.The estimate, which covers the 2025 state fiscal year, is part of a $6.7 million...

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