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By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Concord mother Wendy Santiago said that when her son, Noah, attended a public charter school in the area, he sometimes came home with ripped pants and injuries from bullying.
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
The former chief of the Hancock Police Department will avoid jail time for repeatedly claiming to have been working in Hancock and Richmond simultaneously, according to terms of a plea agreement reached in Merrimack County Superior Court on Tuesday.
By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY
Kelly Ayotte has a new policy priority: Ban cell phones from New Hampshire classrooms.
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Sanjeev Manohar had never knocked on a door asking people to vote for him before. So as he hit one after the other in Nashua during his campaign for state representative, he had a policy pitch prepared. He’d champion women’s rights if he was elected...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Hiring superintendents, principals and nurses is not necessary to provide the state’s youngest residents with an adequate education, Solicitor General Anthony Galdieri argued at the New Hampshire Supreme Court on Tuesday.Neither is providing heat...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Maggie Goodlander’s Washington, D.C., resume was long from the beginning. She’d worked in the Department of Justice, clerked for the United States Supreme Court and served as an intelligence officer in the Naval Reserve. Now, she will add U.S....
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Ophir Sternberg, a Miami-based real estate mogul who immigrated to the United States from Israel in 1993, proudly touts in his corporate biography that he founded and generously contributes to a charter school in Peterborough, New Hampshire.Sternberg...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Democrat Karen Liot Hill edged out Mike Liberty, while Republican Kim Strathdee beat Mary Rose Deak for their respective District 2 Executive Council nominations.The final results, which were not called until around 12:30 a.m., saw Hill clinch the win...
By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY, SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN and JEREMY MARGOLIS
The race between Nashua native Maggie Goodlander and fellow Democrat Colin Van Ostern for the second congressional district nomination was never close.Even in Van Ostern’s hometown of Concord, Goodlander beat him in all 10 city wards with 63% of the...
By ALEXANDER RAPP, RACHEL WACHMANand MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Dennis Martin heard “Don’t Mass Up New Hampshire” and he was sold. The U.S. Coast Guard veteran moved to Londonderry 24 years ago from the “People's Republic of communism, Massachusetts.” He hasn’t looked back. “This was the best slogan I’ve heard in...
By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY
Colin Van Ostern and Maggie Goodlander exchanged a blitz of accusations about their backgrounds, funding and past political work, all of which have been prominent themes in their tense race for New Hampshire’s second congressional district.During a...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Sumana Anand didn’t know much about Kelly Ayotte or Chuck Morse when she took her seat in the auditorium of New England College Wednesday.The 17-year-old student from Derry kicked off her freshman year by attending her first candidate debate just...
By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY
A massive crowd of New Englanders rallied on New Hampshire’s Seacoast, waiting to hear directly from Vice President Kamala Harris, as they sampled the event’s signature drink: the Kamalamenon.In her first visit to New Hampshire as the Democratic...
By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN
Two Democrats and two Republicans are facing off in primaries to run for the District 2 seat on the state’s Executive Council, currently held by Cinde Warmington, who is the lone Democratic voice on the five-member board and is running for...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
As Scott Royce walked the halls of his apartment, bed bugs crawled up and down the walls, speckled his front door and crept around his to neighbor’s entryway.These days, his grocery bags have been filled with pesticides. He sprayed along his door...
By DAVID BROOKS
There’s a good reason why the federal government is giving $450 million to New England to help get electric heat pumps into homes and businesses: They’re great machines and not just for climate change reasons.“I have been saving about $1,000 a year,”...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Last fall, high school teacher Penny Culliton received a notice from the New Hampshire Department of Education that appeared to expand the scope of a parental notification law passed in 2017. The department’s initial advisory to schools had said that...
By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY
New Hampshire Democrats are falling in line to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidential nomination following Joe Biden’s unprecedented departure from the race.All 25 pledged state delegates plan to vote for Harris at the Democratic...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Governor Chris Sununu on Friday banned transgender girls in New Hampshire from competing on school-sponsored girls’ sports teams in the state starting in fifth grade.The law – which makes New Hampshire the 26th state to implement transgender sports...
By JEREMY MARGOLIS
Late last month, Teresa Paradis, the owner of Live and Let Live Farm in Chichester, received a jarring letter from the state Department of Agriculture.Although scant on details, the letter’s effect was clear: the farm – a beloved rescue organization...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Patricia Ingemi stood on the front lawn as she watched her house go up in flames. The fire grew fast, and the sound of her nine cats shrieking inside haunts her a decade later. In a matter a minutes, the single-family house she owned since 1981 was...
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