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Harris team gets a warm welcome in NH: ‘A campaign I can, like, fully, wholeheartedly support’
08-01-2024 10:31 AM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Voters Meg Locker, Joseph Reidy, and Shideko Terai traveled different journeys to a campaign rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Concord Wednesday.Locker, 27, was actively but “a bit reluctantly” supporting President Joe Biden for a second term...


More dentists are agreeing to see Medicaid patients – but not enough to meet demand
07-14-2024 8:00 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

It took oral health advocates nearly 25 years to persuade lawmakers to provide adults on Medicaid coverage for basic dental care. Gail Brown, one of those advocates, said she saw that investment pay dividends in far less time.Brown was stopped this...


Murder conviction. Bankruptcy. FBI sting. House candidate would like to explain.
07-13-2024 1:01 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Hudson and Litchfield voters will have three choices in a two-seat floterial House race in the September Republican primary: a longtime incumbent, a former legislator, and a man who moved into a Hudson rental about two months ago.Mark Edgington, 53,...


Records suggest state is so far losing its casino fight with Sanborn
07-05-2024 4:39 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Newly obtained legal documents in the attorney general’s year-old pandemic fraud case against casino owner Andy Sanborn reveal for the first time what the parties have declined to say publicly for months.The documents, obtained by the Bulletin via a...


Sanborn secures another win over the state, this time an extension to sell his casino
06-27-2024 8:01 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The state has granted former state Sen. Andy Sanborn’s request for at least a three-week extension to sell the casino it ordered shuttered in December following allegations he misused nearly $844,000 in federal pandemic aid to enrich himself, $181,250...


Lawmakers eye last-ditch effort to address divide over hospital Medicaid payments
06-25-2024 5:00 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Some lawmakers are exploring an 11th hour attempt to settle a showdown between Gov. Chris Sununu and the state’s hospitals over Sununu’s plan to cut their state Medicaid payments by nearly $35 million a year. Senate President Jeb Bradley said earlier...


State keeps benefits intended for foster kids. A push is on to end the practice.
06-24-2024 3:13 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Dawson Hayes spent about three years in foster care before he was adopted in February at age 16. As he was moved from foster home to foster home, Hayes thought about something his state case worker had told him. Once he was adopted or aged out of...


NH expands eligible abuse for youth detention center payment, ups settlement caps
06-18-2024 6:05 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The state has broadened who can seek payment for abuse while at the former Youth Development Center. Gov. Chris Sununu signed Senate Bill 591 Friday, which immediately expands the type of abuse eligible for payment but also increases settlement...


Most NH nursing homes won’t meet new federal staffing rule and doubt they can
06-02-2024 4:00 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

A new analysis from one of the country’s leading health policy research organizations confirms what the state’s long-term health care providers have warned: The state’s nursing homes don’t have nearly enough staff to meet the Biden administration’s...


Child care providers: We like the $25K grant, love the free business coaching
05-25-2024 4:01 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Ellen Grudzien is the founder, executive director, accountant, and landscaper for Let’s Grow Outside, a preschool program with classrooms in Amherst and an outdoor-based program in Bedford. In that, Grudzien is not unique among child care providers...


Dartmouth Hitchcock to take over psychiatric treatment for children at state-run hospital
05-16-2024 2:58 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Over the objections of mental health advocates and others two years ago, the state chose a private company that primarily works with incarcerated adults to provide psychiatric treatment to children at Hampstead Hospital.With that $52.5 million...


NH troops from the border: ‘We have to adapt every night to every scenario’
05-06-2024 4:32 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

New Hampshire National Guard Lt. Ryan Camp looked through the border fence separating Texas and Mexico, and made a mental note of the pickup truck crawling back and forth along the bank of the Rio Grande. He logged the man fishing and the person he...


Insurance, limited options still keep patients hospitalized longer than needed
05-01-2024 3:42 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Patients who are medically cleared to be discharged from a hospital continue to stay much longer than they need to largely because they cannot get the ongoing specialized care they require, according to a new report from the New Hampshire Hospital...


Republicans have made illegal immigration a top issue in NH — sometimes with misinformation
04-23-2024 5:22 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Gov. Chris Sununu has put nearly $2.3 million into tackling what he calls an illegal immigration crisis on two fronts: $1.4 million for a law enforcement task force along the state’s 58-mile border with Canada, and $850,000 toward this month’s...


Lawmakers defeat a sixth gun safety bill, this one aimed at keeping guns out of schools
04-14-2024 6:33 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Thursday morning, Moms Demand Action gathered their gun safety advocates in the New Hampshire State Library to encourage them to continue pressing lawmakers to support their legislative agenda and to run for office to replace those who don’t. “We’ve...


Roving patrols, culture shock, and scorpions: NH soldiers arrive in Texas
04-09-2024 3:52 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The 15 New Hampshire National Guard soldiers who arrived in Texas on Thursday to assist with border control were warned about safety risks. Many were not what you’d expect: vipers, ticks, filth flies, mosquitoes carrying the dengue virus, and...


Slain state hospital security officer was unarmed. State moves to change that.
04-02-2024 3:42 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

The state is moving forward with what would be a significant change at New Hampshire Hospital: armed private security guards. The move is a response to the November fatal shooting of state hospital security officer Bradley Haas, who was unarmed in the...


Gun-rights Republicans split, pass bill adding mental health records to gun checks
03-31-2024 5:21 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Gun rights advocates who are usually unified on gun legislation split Thursday on a bill that would add some mental health records to gun background checks. New Hampshire is one of several states that does not report that information to the federal...


Lawmakers back several bills benefiting charities, casinos
03-11-2024 4:11 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

Lawmakers moved forward last week with bills that would mean significant changes for casino owners and the charities their gaming revenue supports. One would revise rules for gambling tournaments.Here’s the breakdown as the House and Senate near their...


Sanborn’s casino should create a bidding war – if not for its legal problems
02-21-2024 4:16 PM

By ANNMARIE TIMMINS

In the last 14 months, Chicago gaming entrepreneur Greg Carlin has bought two New Hampshire casinos and is now investing $25 million refurbishing and expanding them. Ocean Gaming Casino overlooks Hampton Beach. The second, under construction, will sit...

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