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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 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 MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Mackenna Trudel grew up on the stage of the Franklin Opera House to choruses of applause as the curtain closed on theater performances. Now the high school freshman is applauding the Franklin City Council after they voted in favor of a $6.8 million...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

New Hampshire is known for many firsts: the first to declare independence from England, and its first-in-the-nation primary. New Hampshire is also the first state where residents of a manufactured housing community purchased their park, forming a...

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

Kelly Ayotte doesn’t want to “Mass Up New Hampshire” but she does want her message to hit all channels ahead of the primary.Her opponent, Chuck Morse, also followed suit. Ahead of the primary for New Hampshire’s corner office, the two Republican...

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 MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Clement Kigugu gets the same question over and over ahead of an election – “Who should I vote for?”While he doesn’t give New Americans any political advice, he has an answer for almost every other question ahead of an election.In the days leading up...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

As Scott Royce walked the halls of his apartment, bed bugs crawled up and down the walls, speckled his front door and crept around his to neighbor’s entryway.These days, his grocery bags have been filled with pesticides. He sprayed along his door...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Based on their income levels, registered nurses can afford a two-bedroom apartment at $1,833 a month in the state’s rental market. Public school teachers and electricians make enough for a typical one-bedroom at $1,430.Since rental costs are on the...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

To Zack Sheehan, any taxpayer in New Hampshire should be enraged if they pay a school tax rate of more than $8 – which is most of the state. These high rates could be alleviated if a town that raises more than what’s required by state law for the...

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 MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Each time Glenn Morrill drives around the traffic circle in Franklin and the long grass blows in the breeze, he jokes the swaying blades are waving hello.The long grass at the rotary is one of many spots Morrill can look at in New Hampshire’s smallest...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

At the end of the month, Edmund McGahey plans to load up his U-Haul with the American flag neatly rolled behind his front door, take his wind chimes down from his front porch, pack his eight potted Christmas cacti, and leave for Texas.With an...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Words like institutional and hardened type of secure construction raise alarm bells for Cassandra Sanchez.When the Office of the Child Advocate supported legislation to build a new youth detention facility, a requirement was that the center take on a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

With the Hunger Free New Hampshire Act, Becky Whitley wanted a buffet of solutions to eliminate food insecurity. In the end, Gov. Chris Sununu signed a small portion of her original bill into law. Students who are eligible for free and reduced lunch...

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 MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

With 153 apartments, a gym, common spaces, a hairdresser and a brewery, Stevens Mills in Franklin is akin to a college campus to Elizabeth Stewart, the property manager. The shuttered mills off Central Street downtown are now transformed into a...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

New Hampshire’s gubernatorial candidates are in agreement with voters: housing in the state is at a crisis point.To Cinde Warmington, the lone Democrat on the Executive Council, there’s one person to blame for the current state of affairs: Governor...