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Solve New Hampshire’s school funding issuesThe largest taxes people pay in New Hampshire is by far property taxes and they vary from town to town. It is levied on property owners, businesses and renters (indirectly). If you happen to live in a...
The three Republican incumbents in the newly drawn Sullivan House District 3 hoping to return to Concord will first have to fend off a challenge from a former Libertarian candidate from Newport in the Sept. 13 GOP primary.Steve Smith, of Charlestown,...
ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.
While it must be right that cuts in services have to start with things that will be seen as personal comforts, the state of that court and others I have seen since – and the general state of morale among judges, court staff, barristers and solicitors carrying out these areas of work – point to a major crisis in our justice system. This can also be seen in the Prison Service, with its overcrowding and its inability to deliver effective rehabilitation regimes or control the spread of Covid. At its root are a series of decisions made by successive governments – going back over at least two...
I've seen how the UK justice system is crumbling. Why doesn't the government take action? Dominic Grieve When I first started at the bar in the early 1980s, my practice was largely publicly funded by legal aid and much of it was crime and family work. I travelled across London and south-east England representing clients in crown, county and magistrates courts. Most of these buildings were Victorian and lacked the facilities to cope with the growing volume of criminal and civil cases. But there were signs of change. At Maidstone, where I was a frequent visitor, the Queen came t...