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Two bills that anticipate offshore wind in New Hampshire’s future sailed through hearings in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, gaining the full support of the committee on Tuesday.
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Travel nurses are expensive, with staffing agencies charging $200 to $300 an hour to recruit candidates and nurses earning two to three times what staff nurses make. Those lucrative salaries combined with the exhaustion, stress, and grind of the job have lured staff nurses away.
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It is unclear how many New Hampshire departments will take part in the statewide certification process, which will be voluntary.
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The political fight over whether to allow remote participation in New Hampshire State House business has migrated to cities and towns.
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A House committee feels the state’s progress on a long-stalled effort to transfer mental health patients from the state prison to a hospital is moving along so well, it killed a bill this week giving lawmakers a greater role in the project.
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House Bill 1291 would prevent landlords from using a potential tenant’s Section 8 assistance as a reason for denying their application.
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Facing high staff and student COVID-19 case counts and frustration among teachers’ unions, New Hampshire school administrators are wrestling with how to keep schools open. Some in the state have conceded they can’t.
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A year after passing into law a set of regulations barring K-12 teachers from certain instruction around race and gender, some Republican lawmakers are pressing to extend the regulations to the state’s public colleges and universities.
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Two years into a pandemic that has proven dangerous for older and immunocompromised lawmakers, Republicans and Democrats are unable to agree on whether or how to allow remote participation in House proceedings.
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Lawmakers won’t have a budget to write, debate, and negotiate this session, but with at least 900 bills awaiting their return Jan. 5, it will be another busy year.