WHILE WE’RE COOLING our jets waiting for Gov. Chris Sununu to announce if he’ll run for the U.S. Senate in 2022 — he says a decision is months away — he continues to bring talented campaign operatives into his office orbit.
Saturday, March 06, 2021
Saturday, February 27, 2021
WHAT A difference an election makes.
Saturday, February 20, 2021
A HIGH-POWERED national consulting firm has completed a $1.5 million assessment of how to make New Hampshire’s largest state agency more efficient and take the most advantage of federal grants to support its operations.
Saturday, February 13, 2021
WELL UNDER THE RADAR so far, proponents of expanded gambling are making a big push in 2021.
Saturday, February 06, 2021
DEMOCRATIC CRITICS hammered Gov. Chris Sununu last fall for giving “flexibility” to school district administrators and school boards to decide how they would conduct public schools in the face of risks from COVID-19.
Saturday, January 30, 2021
A MAJOR TO-DO on the New Hampshire Legislature’s priority list just got shoved to a back burner.
Saturday, January 23, 2021
NOW THAT GOV. Chris Sununu has his Supreme Court chief justice, who’s going to be the next attorney general?
Saturday, January 16, 2021
GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU said he knows that not everyone is going to be happy with his decisions about who gets the COVID-19 vaccine now and who must wait longer.
Saturday, January 09, 2021
STATE REP. Michael Yakubovich, R-Hooksett, said 2021 will not be the year of an end to a New Hampshire ban on “armed civilian groups.”
Saturday, January 02, 2021
IT’S BEGINNING TO look a lot like New Hampshire state revenues will recover.
Saturday, December 26, 2020
GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU had his eye on Congress last week.
Saturday, December 19, 2020
GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU began what he hopes will be a more cohesive relationship with the newly elected Executive Council by hosting a private luncheon last Friday at the Bridges House in Concord.
Saturday, December 12, 2020
MERRIMACK HAS ALWAYS been a civically engaged town where citizens across the political and ideological spectrums get involved.
Sunday, December 06, 2020
GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU has been publicly critical of large gatherings that he believes didn’t include proper COVID-19 precautions.
Friday, November 27, 2020
THE SUNUNU ADMINISTRATION is reviewing the first attempt since August to update rules for child care businesses to operate during the pandemic.
Saturday, November 21, 2020
HOUSE MEMBERS’ SELECTIONS of their new leaders last week bodes well for cooperation between the parties over the next two years.
Saturday, November 14, 2020
THERE IS NO evidence of widespread voter fraud in New Hampshire.
Saturday, October 31, 2020
ALONG WITH AN annual salary of $100, a state senator gets a nice parking place in the Legislative Office Building, an office, an aide or an intern, and some handsome nameplates.
Saturday, October 17, 2020
GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU is the only Republican governor in the country who has refused to weigh in on whether the U.S. Senate should vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Saturday, October 10, 2020
STATE AUDITORS HAD good news this week for businesses, confirming the profits and enterprise taxes will not increase in January.
Saturday, October 03, 2020
State health officials this week reported some people in New Hampshire have exhibited “quarantine fatigue” in their dealings with the state team tracing COVID-19 contacts.
Saturday, September 26, 2020
THROUGHOUT THIS STRESSFUL pandemic, Gov. Chris Sununu generally has come across as positive and supportive rather than combative and dismissive.
Saturday, September 12, 2020
NOT ONLY DID Gov. Chris Sununu collect nearly 90% of the Republican primary vote last Tuesday, he didn’t do badly among Democrats.
Saturday, September 05, 2020
ALTHOUGH COVID-19 has kept us all indoors more than we would like, the Democratic primary race for governor could well be won at the grass-roots level Tuesday.
Saturday, August 29, 2020
A polarizing presidential race, a blue midterm-election tidal wave and the falling dominoes of a duel for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination combine to give voters more choices than usual in the Sept. 8 primary.
Saturday, August 22, 2020
THE CROWDED PRIMARY campaign to replace gubernatorial candidate Andru Volinsky as the Democratic nominee for the Executive Council District 2 seat erupted into a bitter back-and-forth last week.
Saturday, August 15, 2020
WHEN THE DEPARTMENT of Public Health and Gov. Chris Sununu’s office rewrote the “Universal Guidance” for dealing with COVID-19, the goal was to make the document easier to read and understand.
Sunday, August 09, 2020
GOV. CHRIS SUNUNU said he learned “very recently” that the state of Massachusetts Department of Revenue had issued a rule requiring New Hampshire residents with jobs in Massachusetts to pay income taxes while working remotely from home during the pandemic.
Saturday, July 25, 2020
U.S. DISTRICT COURT Judge Joseph Laplante holds in his hands the fate of the New Hampshire Libertarian Party’s presence on the 2020 ballot.
Saturday, July 18, 2020
THE SAUSAGE-MAKING that went into the 56-page report on rules for reopening New Hampshire public schools sparked plenty of controversy last week.
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A 69-year-old Massachusetts man was rescued from South Tripyramid Saturday afternoon after sliding approximately 100 feet while hiking, the Fish and Game Department said.
DEAR ABBY: This is a delicate situation. Four days after my boyfriend (whom I had been seeing for 8½ years) was killed in an accident, I found out he was married. He had claimed for years that he was divorced and even produced a copy of his divorce decree several years ago. It is a long story.
By Don Lindich
DEAR HELOISE: My dog is part vegetarian, I think! He loves to eat raw — and cooked, for that matter — broccoli, pea pods, carrots and cauliflower! — Harriet P. in New York
Q: My iPhone XS, now 26 months old, often doesn’t ring or vibrate when I receive a call. So, unless I’m looking at the screen when the call arrives, I miss it. But this doesn’t happen on every call.
WASHINGTON — A federal judge chided the self-identified “QAnon Shaman,” who was part of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, for appearing in a “60 Minutes Plus” interview without permission.
KEENE -- A firefighter was treated for exertion after a three-alarm fire on Castle Street Saturday morning.
Last week, I got an email that reminded me of the dangers of retractable leashes. The improving spring weather likely means that more people will be walking their dogs. A few years ago, I wrote about this topic, relating an experience I had. This feels like a good time to reprise the topic.