STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS said last week that the federal government, not New Hampshire, has the most accurate data on who has been vaccinated for COVID-19.

GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU said Friday he’s “definitely leaning one way” on a run for the U.S. Senate in 2022 and should announce a decision in a “few weeks.”

ORGANIZERS OF the anti-vaccine mandate protest before the Executive Council last week accused Gov. Chris Sununu and the state police of having no cause to arrest nine of them.

THE REPUBLICAN SPECIAL election primary for a seat in the New Hampshire House is heating up in Derry, where a campaign finance complaint has been filed against town councilor and GOP hopeful Neal Wetherbee.

SEPTEMBER IS looking as if it will significantly add to the state’s sizable revenue surplus.

ANYONE WHO Thought the 2022 legislative session was going to be short and sleepy got a reality bucket of cold water Friday.

ATTORNEY GENERAL John Formella will give it the old college try, but there are signs a newly named commission will have a tough time agreeing on how to create an independent panel to investigate and punish law enforcement officers for misconduct.

NOW THAT THE New Hampshire House of Representatives has returned to resume committee work after its summer hiatus, sparks are already flying about the “new normal” at the State House.

IT TOOK 14 years, but Secretary of State Bill Gardner finally got to take a victory lap over a Legislative Budget Audit finding in 2008 that his office had misspent $1 million in federal money.