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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

City Councilor Jim Schlosser is hoping Concord will take a step forward in the city’s response to end homelessness and hire a paid program manager. The request comes with caution – “It’s early in this work.” The city’s steering committee on the plan...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Growing up in Auburn, Maine, Zoey Murphy struggled to find spaces where she felt like she belonged.“I was the only Black person in my graduating class, and it was really hard to see different signals that really spoke to me,” she said.Now, she’s a...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

City Councilor Stacey Brown did not have a conflict of interest and did not violate the code of ethics when she voted in May to approve closing Main Street for an event, the city’s Board of Ethics determined in a unanimous decision Monday.“Of course...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Concord’s Board of Ethics is set to weigh a claim that City Councilor Stacey Brown, who is married to a city police officer, ran afoul of city rules by voting on a street closure that could have created a financial conflict of interest.Later in the...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Ian McGregor knows as well as anyone the multitude of reasons people use public transportation.As a kid, he relied on Milwaukee’s bus system to get around.“I’m the son of an alcoholic who could not drive,” he told Concord city councilors. “This is...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Jillian Andrews Dubois picked up her newspaper a few weeks ago and saw three side-by-side stories that painted a stark tableau.One described how average rents in the state continue to burden the average firefighter or retail worker, another explained...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A potential partnership between the city of Concord and the developer planning to revamp the Steeplegate was met this week with skepticism by some members of the city council.“Between the spending of the council and the school board right now, we...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Plans to rehabilitate the music venue within historic Phenix Hall, plus add housing, restaurants, and retail, took a big step forward Monday night as the Concord City Council agreed to allow new downtown developments to circumvent height rules on a...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The developer looking to transform the Steeplegate Mall into new stores and hundreds of housing units is asking the city for a hand. When projects in Concord are built that require new city resources — adding new or improving existing roads, sewers,...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

A city rule that prevents buildings from blocking the view of the State House dome could be modified to make way for certain projects.Concord has strict zoning that mandates no construction downtown can exceed 80 feet or in any way block a view of the...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

City Councilor Michele Horne doesn’t live near either the current or proposed middle schools, or even in the Concord School District, and she’s never had to make a vote on the middle school project. Nevertheless, it’s the one thing her constituents...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN and MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

In the sweltering heat at Keach Park, Project STORY summer campers seek any shade they can get. When it rains, Charm Emiko has no choice but to cancel the free camp for the day.From the fields, Emiko’s campers can see the nearby City Wide Community...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Working for a company that does business with the city is not automatically a conflict of interest for people who give advice to elected leaders, the Concord’s Board of Ethics determined Monday. As long as they walk a fine line to avoid influencing...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

The city’s Board of Ethics will reconvene Monday to hold a hearing on one of two complaints on its plate.In May, the ethics board, an appointed committee that weighs complaints against city officials, received a handful of complaints — the first it...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

If Freeman Toth had a wishlist to address homelessness, he’d ask for more permanent supportive housing, rent control, better access to voucher programs and outreach from community mental health centers.To solve homelessness in the state, New Hampshire...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Dan Williams posed a big question to the Concord City Council at its meeting Monday.“What is your position on the school board’s middle school project?”Councilors left it dangling.The council is only required to answer questions about matters on the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

A new Community Justice Center could house legal resources in Concord, with New Hampshire Legal Assistance, 603 Legal Aid and the Disability Rights Center looking to combine forces in one office space.Currently, the three providers have their own...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

If a charitable organization, religious center, restaurant, hotel, hospital, or any other business in Concord wants to open a casino, they can, but the casino must be smaller than the main building of the primary business.At Monday night’s city...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

If you own property in Concord, someone in a neon vest will come to your house at some point over the next year and a half.With a Monday start, Concord is beginning both a citywide revaluation and a full measure and list of all of its properties ahead...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

From the conservation commission’s tree subcommittee to the planning board to the ad-hoc Beaver Meadow building committee, the city of Concord has more than 50 boards and commissions meeting both regularly and sporadically.Other than groups that make...

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

Stacey Brown welcomes her upcoming public hearing with Concord’s Board of Ethics. As a city councilor married to a police officer, she thinks it could set the record straight on what’s actually a conflict of interest.“I’m glad that there’s going to be...