PRESIDENT Joe Biden‘s speech in Georgia on voting rights and voting legislation this week turned the local spotlight back onto Sen. Maggie Hassan‘s announcement last month that she would support a narrow carve-out to the filibuster.

IN RECENT YEARS, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has been deepening her involvement in democracy-promotion efforts abroad, including her support for Russia, Belarus and Georgia, as well as advocating for ongoing involvement in Afghanistan.

JUST FOUR MONTHS after the last American planes left the Kabul airport, Sen. Maggie Hassan‘s bill with Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) to erect a monument to the War on Terror on the National Mall has been signed into law.

The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee voted Wednesday to advance a bill that would make more National Guardsmen and reserve members eligible for burial in state veterans cemeteries, including the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen.

THE QUAINTNESS and intimacy of campaigning in small rooms in New Hampshire butted up against the reality of a crowded primary.

AFTER A fall lull, presidential potentials are crawling around New Hampshire again, with two senators and a former vice president set to visit the state over the next 10 days.

THE PROPOSAL for reshaped Congressional districts in New Hampshire has so far done little to change the trajectory of the 2022 election.

GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU HAS ROBBED political junkies of one of the better parlor games in recent memory: speculating which way the dominoes would have fallen, had he opted for a Senate run.

By Josie Albertson-Grove

SYNTHETIC OPIOIDS like fentanyl have driven overdose deaths in New Hampshire over the past several years, but countries that export fentanyl — notably, China — face few consequences for what Americans see as turning a blind eye.

CITIES, TOWNS AND COUNTIES in New Hampshire received millions from the American Rescue Plan Act, the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill signed into law in March — including $44 million for Manchester and $16.5 million for Nashua.

IN A CAMPAIGN AGAINST an incumbent legislator, it’s not uncommon to say every bill your opponent has sponsored, every vote they’ve taken, is wrong, bad and maybe downright diabolical.

ACTIVISTS IN MERRIMACK have been ringing the alarm for years about water safety, expressing frustration about what they see as the slow rate of action.

AS HER 2022 REELECTION fight inches ever closer, Sen. Maggie Hassan has had a chance this week to highlight her cooperation with two of the most conservative Republicans in the Senate: Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.)

IN THE WORLD OF elections, the latest sign of changing seasons isn’t the start of fall foliage, but the Republican National Committee‘s resumption of training for its local staff and party leaders.

AFTER A VIRTUAL MEETING about Afghanistan with ambassadors and other officials from NATO countries this week, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said she hoped NATO nations — members of the the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — will stay attentive to women’s issues in Afghanistan, though American troops…

The images of the evacuation from Kabul have been upsetting, no matter one’s experience. But for war veterans, particularly those who served in Afghanistan, the effects could be more difficult to deal with.

IT HASN’T been all roads, bridges and broadband on Capitol Hill this summer.

THE HOUSE IS BACK in session next week to take up the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed in the Senate this month, and the Senate Democrats’ $3.5 trillion bill to expand Medicare benefits, provide free community college and pre-kindergarten and a host of other social services –- which mea…