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At-home caregivers in Washington state have experienced a boost in wages to weather the COVID-19 pandemic, and a new campaign is urging lawmakers to make the pay increase permanent. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 775s "Time for $20" campaign calls on lawmakers to raise hourly wages for workers who care for people in their homes and long-term care facilities in this years budget. Julie Sparkman, a home-care aide who looks after children who mostly have unde...

Gov. Chris Sununu delivered his State of the State address yesterday, highlighting the states handling of COVID-19, tax cuts and federal investments coming in. Recent polling showed the number of New Hampshire residents who believe the state is going in the right direction has dropped. ...

For parents considering a run for school board next spring, 603 Alliance is ready. The conservative activist group is setting up candidate training across the state over the next few weeks. But first, candidates will have to answer a few...

For parents considering a run for school board next spring, 603 Alliance is ready. The conservative activist group is setting up candidate training across the state over the next few weeks. But first, candidates will have to answer a few...

With few contested races, Concord residents chose a mix of old and new candidates in Tuesday’s election, voting in Mayor Jim Bouley and incumbent Ward 1 Councilor Brent Todd along with council newcomer Stacey Brown in Ward 5.Bouley won a decisive...

Perhaps nowhere in the state is the divide between the people and the political system felt more acutely than the North Country.

Editor’s Note: This story was first published on New Hampshire Bulletin.There’s a lot of things one might glean from living out of a camper van and traveling around the country for a year and a half. For Chichester, N.H., native Dave Andrews, the main...

ZIP Advertisement As child tax credit checks arrive, Democrats say Sununu would have followed McConnell in opposition to rescue plan NHGOP calls Democratic attacks ‘sign of desperation, panic’ over Hassan’s reelection chances Share Updated: 10:24 PM EDT Jul 15, 2021 Advertisement As child tax credit checks arrive, Democrats say Sununu would have followed McConnell in opposition to rescue plan NHGOP calls Democratic attacks ‘sign of desperation, panic’ over Hassan’s ree...

As part of a nationwide push to ban the supposed teaching of critical race theory in classrooms, Republican lawmakers are promoting bills which prohibit teaching students that one race is superior to another. But critical race theory makes no such claim, and now Fox News — which helped to manufacture this right-wing obsession — is amplifying this lie. Critical race theory is an academic movement first developed in the 1970s which examines the pervasive impact of systemic racism on American...

The GOP’s ‘Critical Race Theory’ Obsession Adam Harris © Steve Liss / CSA Images / Getty / Katie Martin / The Atlantic On January 12, Keith Ammon, a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, introduced a bill that would bar schools as well as organizations that have entered into a contract or subcontract with the state from endorsing “divisive concepts.” Specifically, the measure would forbid “race or sex scapegoating,” questioning the valu...