Local needs, political tensions and corporate power all get involved in the democratic processes by which Americans govern their communities.
Communities across the state are demanding to know how proposed data centers would affect their electric and water bills, landscapes and quality of life.
The New Hampshire House and Senate sent three bills to Gov. Kelly Ayotte intended to enable more housing construction, overcoming opposition from the New Hampshire Municipal Association and others. In a series of votes on the last standard session day of the year Thursday, the House and Senate approved final versions of House Bill 1010, […]
A bipartisan majority of the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to table a bill that would have limited towns’ abilities to regulate data centers within their borders. Rep. Keith Ammon made the motion to table the bill during a busy house session on Thursday, May 14. The motion passed, 304-11, without further discussion. Ammon, […]
In one of the last sessions of the year, the New Hampshire Senate voted to pass a bill that would change zoning laws for family childcare providers and make it easier to open a small childcare center. Family childcare, also known as home-based childcare, accounts for about 15% of licensed childcare in New Hampshire. Home-based […]
Opposition to data centers is becoming increasingly bipartisan in states across the U.S., but the opposite was true in the New Hampshire House on Tuesday. The House Committee on Municipal and County Government split on party lines in their vote on a bill that would set guidelines for how towns can regulate data center development. […]
Concord has a restriction when it comes to new dead-end streets: no more than 1,000 feet. That limit is in place for resident safety, argues Deputy City Manager Matthew Walsh. If the city approves longer dead-end roads, and developers build housing on those roads, residents could become trapped during severe weather events and the homes […]
For a quarter of its residents, Pittsburgh isn’t an affordable place to live. A contested housing policy is at the center of efforts to change that.
PLYMOUTH — There are big plans for decades to come at Tenney Mountain Resort, following an overwhelming vote at Town Meeting to amend a zoning…
LACONIA — A draft analysis of existing living conditions in the city, prepared as part of the master planning process, shows moderate anticipa…