New Hampshire has the nation’s second-oldest population, its lowest unemployment rate, and New England’s worst Medicaid reimbursement. All of these factors have created a perfect storm for those providing Medicaid care as they struggle to recruit, and retain, caregivers. A united front ...
Sitting motionless and fairly numb on that Saturday afternoon I’ll never forget, I stared alternately at my TV and computer screens and watched my worst nightmare come true. How many times, I couldn’t help wondering as my mind wandered between the unimaginable and reality, had I been ...
Building our state’s budget can feel a bit like Hasbro’s Mouse Trap. Somewhere in there the green plastic boot that is “spending targets” sets a roll on an efficiency budget. Then come multiple recommendations, hearings, and conference committees, all sliding, leveraging, leaping to ...
The State Board of Education recently approved rules implementing the Learn Everywhere program proposed by Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut and created by the Legislature last year. These rules are scheduled for a vote on final approval by the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative ...
In late-August of 2017, an 8-year-old mixed-race boy had a rope pulled tight around his neck and was strung up in a tree in Claremont, a blue-collar town just over two hours from Boston. Not only did New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon MacDonald, now Chief Justice nominee, spring into ...
Anubis, the cat who allows us to share space with him, is a mighty hunter. And climber. The combination of these two traits leads to some interesting encounters in the early hours of the morning. Let me explain. Anubis is many things, but above all, he is a creature of the night. We ...