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When the state reported just seven COVID-19 hospitalizations, far fewer than the 20 to 25 reported over the prior week, it was good news – just not the whole picture.
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So far, 0.13 percent of all New Hampshire public school students have left to take an EFA, the Department of Education reported Monday.
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The bill’s fate when it returns to the House floor will depend largely on which lawmakers are in attendance, though its chances are increased with the support of the committee’s Republicans.
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On Wednesday, House lawmakers voted, 175 to 167, in favor of tabling a bill that would put a biological definition of sex in state statute, to differentiate between the male and female sexes in athletic competitions at public schools, in prisons, and “places of intimate privacy,” like bathrooms.
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Opponents say the bill is vague, confusing, and unnecessary, pointing to the fair and impartial police policy that has been adopted by various departments in the state.
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Knowing one bill faced a tough second vote before the House, its prime sponsor, Rep. Dan Wolf, a Newbury Republican, came to Monday’s finance subcommittee meeting ready to compromise.
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Nearly 80,000 people reported not having enough to eat in the last seven days in Census Pulse data from early February, numbers that have swollen by 30,000 since last September.
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New Hampshire’s 400-member House will formally return as a body to Representatives Hall on Thursday in its first meeting since Speaker Sherman Packard announced the restoration of voting days in the traditional chamber.
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New Hampshire’s labor market has recovered some of the ground lost during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it remains below its pre-pandemic highs, economists testified to lawmakers on Friday.
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A bill instructing the Public Utilities Commission to take climate change into account when setting electric rates failed to gain the support of the House Committee on Science, Technology, and Energy in a vote on Monday.