The Disability Rights Center-NH has launched an investigation into New Hampshire’s disability care system following a series of articles published by the Bulletin earlier this month, the agency said Monday. The Bulletin’s reporting uncovered systemic abuse and neglect, sometimes fatal, within the state’s intellectual and developmental disability care system. From January 2023 through June 2025, […]
In a Washington paralyzed by extremes, New Hampshire’s U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan have done something rare: they governed. In…
After New Hampshire banned surprise ambulance billing this year, the state is set to undergo a cost study on how much ambulance providers should charge for their services. Senate Bill 245, which was signed into law by Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte in late July, bans the practice of surprise ambulance billing starting Jan. 1. Surprise […]
New Hampshire’s disability system has a horrific past, and advocates say the path forward is unclear
This is the third in a three-part series on New Hampshire’s intellectual and developmental disability care system. You can read Part I here, and Part II here. IN 1956, A DOCUMENTARY titled “Help Wanted” placed viewers inside the Laconia State School, which from its founding in 1903 as the New Hampshire School for the Feeble-Minded […]
As New Hampshire’s lone member of death row renews an attempt to overturn his death sentence at the New Hampshire Supreme Court, the American Civil Liberties Union is jumping in to help. In a “friend-of-the-court” brief filed Oct. 30, lawyers for the state and national ACLU argue that Michael Addison’s death sentence was affected by […]
House Republican lawmakers are reviving legislation to make it easier to challenge books in schools deemed obscene after Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s decision to veto similar legislation earlier this year. The House Education Policy and Administration Committee voted, 10-8, Wednesday to recommend an amended version of Senate Bill 33, which would require school boards to adopt […]
Gov. Kelly Ayotte said she is “deeply committed” to pushing for state investments in child care amid ongoing funding obstacles and workforce shortages. During a forum on investing in child care Thursday in Manchester, Ayotte told child care advocates, stakeholders, and business owners that despite the “challenging budget environment,” New Hampshire remains committed to the […]
The roads are usually dirt, often pocked with holes, sometimes gated off. By law, they don’t need to be maintained by the town or city. Common to rural New Hampshire, they seldom draw attention. But this year, Class VI roads could play a new role in the push to reduce the state’s housing shortage. A […]
The New Hampshire Senate upheld Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s veto of a bill that would have expanded the prohibition on electioneering by public employees Thursday. In vetoing Senate Bill 213, Ayotte said she would be interested in working on strengthening the anti-electioneering law, but pointed to an unrelated section in the bill focused on absentee voting […]
At any given meeting, the New Hampshire Executive Council can face 100 separate state contracts to approve or deny. And those contracts can be accompanied by 10 or 20 pages of materials. It’s a staggering amount of paperwork that can amount to 1.3 million printed pages per year. And this month, Gov. Kelly Ayotte is […]