N.H. News Recap for June 24, 2022: Electric costs going up, voting law challenged in court

New Hampshire’s largest utilities have announced that prices for electricity are expected to spike later this summer.What’s causing the price hikes and what are state officials doing about it?

Also, Gov. Chris Sununu recently signed a bill into law that would create affidavit bills for the first time in New Hampshire, and it’s already seeing legal changes from voting rights groups.

We talk about all that and more on this week's edition of the New Hampshire News Recap.

Guests:

• Amanda Gokee, New Hampshire Bulletin
• Paula Tracy, InDepth NH

Top stories from around N.H. this week:

• Kids as young as 6 months can now get the COVID vaccine. Here’s how to find it in N.H.

• With energy prices rising, Sununu proposes $60 million energy relief program

• Sununu signs affidavit ballot bill into law; voting rights groups file lawsuit

• How New England’s lack of teacher diversity is affecting students at N.H.’s largest school district

• Loaded pistols now allowed on ATVs, snowmobiles in N.H.

• Manchester aims to reduce non-emergency calls to the police department

• Shaheen suggests voters could punish Democrats if N.H. loses its first-in-the-nation primary

• Federal money could boost state and municipal recycling programs in N.H.