Gov. Kelly Ayotte has again vetoed legislation to keep transgender people out of bathrooms, sports teams, and prisons that align with their gender identity.  The veto came as part of the final tranche of bills sent to the governor from this year’s legislative session. And it was one of three bills Ayotte blocked Wednesday. There […]

Nearly two years into her tenure, Gov. Kelly Ayotte has become comfortable with a veto pen.  The Republican governor vetoed nine bills Thursday, many of them lightning-rod political issues and priorities of lawmakers in her party. Months before the November general election, she took a red pen to conservative proposals to increase book removals in […]

Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed a bill that would’ve eliminated a three-year deadline for convicts to request a retrial based on new evidence. House Bill 1422 was pushed by the New England Innocence Project, which works to overturn wrongful convictions, and supported by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers. New Hampshire state law bars convicts from requesting […]

U.S. Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan filed legislation this week to increase federal funding to address the opioid crisis to the tune of billions of dollars. The two New Hampshire Democrats re-introduced the Turn the Tide Act, which would raise the total spent on various addiction remediation efforts to around $65 billion nationwide over […]

U.S. Rep. Maggie Goodlander introduced legislation Wednesday to ban federal officials, elected and appointed, from trading and owning individual stocks or betting on prediction markets like Kalshi or Polymarket. The proposed prohibition includes members of Congress, the president, the vice president, political appointees, Supreme Court justices, and federal judges, as well as their staffs and […]