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“Women for Biden” coalition launches in New Hampshire, addresses IVF concerns
The Biden-Harris Campaign for President launched their “Women for Biden” coalition in Manchester on Friday, marking the start of Women’s History Month and aligning with the national launch led by First Lady Jill Biden. The event, aimed at mobilizing female voters across the state for the reelection of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, featured several…
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#NHPolitics Weekly Ins and Outs
Welcome to #NHPolitics Ins and Outs, a throwback kind of style of weekly column keeping score of the winners and losers in New Hampshire politics — who’s in and who’s out —and a dash of gossip between the lines. Without further ado, let’s get into it. Who’s In? Congresswoman Annie Kuster — The senior-most congresswoman…
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NH Senate Dems introduce bills to strengthen abortion rights
Members of the New Hampshire Senate Democrats gathered on Thursday to unveil a slate of new bills aimed at shoring up abortion rights in the state, as well as a constitutional amendment aimed at enshrining proactive abortion protections into state law. State Senator Cindy Rosenwald (D-Nashua) said she planned to put forward Senate Bill 461,…
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NH Dems kick off session by taking aim at gun violence
Members of the New Hampshire House and Senate held a press conference ahead of session Wednesday morning touting a package of bills aimed at addressing gun violence in the Granite State. The slate of bills, HB360, HB1050, SB 577, HB1050, and HB 1037, are designed to close loopholes or address oversights in state firearm sales…
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What to expect from the NH State Senate’s 2024 session
Once the cool headed older sibling of the state House, New Hampshire’s Republican Senate majority in the 24-member body has taken a sharp ideological right turn in recent years, and their legislative agenda reflects that. Here are five areas of legislation filed in the State Senate so far likely to be hot topics in the…
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NH House Dems want to let voters decide abortion rights under state constitution
State House Democrats, allies, and supporters held a press conference Monday morning offering a new plan for inserting proactive protections for abortion rights into state law after several rejections by New Hampshire Republicans. New Hampshire currently stands as the only state in New England without affirmative protections on abortion in state law.
