As long as New Hampshire continues to rely on the court system as the sole avenue of appeal for public records requests that are denied, the state can never have real government transparency. The guardians of public records know that if they reject a request for documents, no matter how ...
Bravo, Chessy Prout. Prout, 17, still looking like the child she was as a 15-year-old St. Paul's School freshman, stepped forward last Tuesday to say she was the girl raped two years ago by Owen Labrie, a St. Paul's senior. Labrie, who contends the sex was consensual, was ultimately acquitted ...
Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas says he's the best candidate for governor because he's the only one with a business background who also has government experience as both a legislator and executive. We think that counts for something, which is one of the reasons we endorse him as the Republican ...
Democrats who go to the polls to vote on Tuesday, Sept. 13, have some choices, the best known being Executive Councilor Colin Van Ostern, former Portsmouth Mayor Steve Marchand and Mark Connolly, who formerly headed up the state's office of securities regulation. Van Ostern is undoubtedly the ...
Elephant census offers evidence of poaching's toll The results are in from the Great Elephant Census, and the numbers are much worse than expected. A three-year count of elephants in Africa found only 352,271 African savanna elephants in 18 countries on the continent, down 30 percent in seven ...
Pelham resident Andrew Monaco, 31, was sentenced for assault last week. He pleaded guilty and received a deferred one-year term in jail, with the remaining two years suspended. It was a negotiated plea agreement, which was not particularly unusual. The fact that he didn’t serve jail ...