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By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
The state’s Legislative Ethics Committee declined to determine whether or not a new conflict of interest law would require Senate candidate Tara Reardon to recuse herself from certain legislation if she is elected next month primarily because she is...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Firefighting was in Dan Randall’s family. His grandfather was a fire chief, as was his dad.Randall had no doubt it would be his career path too, but he waited until he was 35 years old to get hired to a department – competition at the time was...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
After 20 years, Steve Shurtleff has cast his last vote as a member of the 400-member New Hampshire House of Representatives.On Thursday, colleagues and friends gathered to honor the speaker emeritus, who also held the titles of House speaker, minority...
By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY
Evelyn Miller knew people living in a kibbutz, or community, in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. When a neighboring kibbutz was attacked by Hamas, some of them ran over to help. Four of them were killed, she said.It’s part of the reason she attended a vigil on...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Matty Gregg’s story started with a movie and a bet.The 1983 film, The Terry Fox Story, chronicled 22-year-old Canadian Terry Fox as he attempted to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research after he lost his right leg to osteosarcoma.He...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
To help pay their tax bill, the second floor of John and Meredith Lunn’s Newport home is now a 600-square-foot apartment. Any source of income helps when they’re trying to pay an annual tax bill that only seems to grow year to year.In 2023, that bill...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
An attorney for state Senate candidate Tara Reardon urged the Legislative Ethics Committee to dismiss a request to decide whether a new conflict of interest law would prevent Reardon from working or voting on bills where her spouse or his firm has...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Ashley Miller loves to tell visitors about Marilla Ricker when they walk into the State Archives. Years before women had the right to vote, Ricker demanded her name be on New Hampshire ballots.She was the first female lawyer in the state and demanded...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Tara Reardon may have prevailed in a contentious three-way state Senate primary in the heavily Democratic Concord area, but a key test for her candidacy, and her potential first term, is still ahead.On Monday, the state Legislative Ethics Committee...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Tara Reardon, long-time former state representative from Concord and current county commissioner, won the Democratic primary for the state Senate representing the Capital Region by a 372-vote margin. In the three-way race between Reardon and two...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Dennis Jakubowski put on his washed green hat, stitched with a white peace sign, and headed to the Loudon polls Tuesday morning. Jakubowski, 70, hoped he could sway his neighbors to vote down ballot Democrat. In a narrowly divided legislature, every...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
In the bottom corner of campaign signs speckled on green front lawns, a white outline of the state is accompanied by the lettering “printed in New Hampshire.”It’s a small marker that Keystone Press in Manchester puts on signs for races up and down the...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Jon Kiper knows that when voters look at the ballot on Tuesday, they probably won’t recognize his name.He's held local office in his Seacoast town of 9,000 but he's not on people’s televisions in attack advertisements like his competitors. Unless they...
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.The 17-year-old student from Derry kicked off her freshman year by attending her first candidate debate just before she...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
In response to a shooting where four people were killed at a high school in Georgia – Lily Tang Williams cited her endorsement from 18 local gun shops and said gun-free zones can cost lives. She wants more Americans to arm themselves, which is their...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
New Hampshire’s Legislative Ethics Committee will determine whether Tara Reardon, if elected to the state Senate, would have to recuse herself on legislation that her spouse’s firm lobbies on — but not until after the primary on Tuesday.That means...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
Tara Reardon, whose spouse is lobbyist and former Concord mayor Jim Bouley, won’t be able to vote on any legislation that involves her husband’s clients if she is elected to the State Senate due to a recent change to state law, her critics say.“Under...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Cassandra Sanchez’s visit to a Tennessee facility last year raised an alarm for the New Hampshire child advocate.One of the children held at the facility told her he had one goal: to do “whatever it takes” to return to the Granite State.A new law,...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
The New Hampshire Senate is going to look different next year, as multiple high-ranking senators have stepped away — including in the Capital area.Three Democrats — Angela Brennan of Bow and Rebecca McWilliams and Tara Reardon, both of Concord — are...
By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN
When State Sen. Becky Whitley made clear that she wasn’t running for re-election, two Democratic state representatives — both far younger than most New Hampshire legislators and eager to serve in higher office — dove into the race to fill her...
By ALEXANDER RAPP
Parker Tirrell went down after a hard foul in front of goal in the second half of a girls’ soccer scrimmage Tuesday night, and she drew a much-needed penalty for her team while down 1-0.Tirrell played for Plymouth Regional High School in a friendly...
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