In 2016, advocates for persons with mental illness and those dealing with addiction, including the NH Community Behavioral Health Association, declared that Medicaid expansion was the most important proposal the NH General Court would consider that year. Last week, at a press conference in the ...
Imagine if someone came along and offered you a discount of seven cents per kilowatt-hour on your electric bill. Seven cents doesn’t sound like much, but it adds up. If you use at least 600 kilowatt-hours a month, as many New Hampshire families do, your monthly bill would drop by $42. In ...
Volunteering is the lifeblood of any nonprofit. And I will say that we are blessed to live in a community where the spirit of volunteerism is alive and well. In fact, just at United Way we have hundreds of active volunteers logging thousands of hours in service to our community. They do ...
One day after the NFL regular season expires they call it Black Monday. Coaches associated with failed teams do some serious pacing, stuffing their cellphones in sofa cushions hoping that if they don’t hear it ring their boss isn’t really calling to request his immediate presence on the ...
There’s not much, if anything, humorous about the long, nasty battle that played out in Congress and the Senate, and in many states (Yes, sad to say, prominent among them was New Hampshire), over whether an official holiday should be enacted to pay tribute to Civil Rights icon Martin Luther ...
As of December 15 data, 59.2% of New Hampshire nursing homes were experiencing a nursing staff shortage, the nation’ second-worst crisis. Compare that to Massachusetts, doing 5th-best among states with just 9.3% of facilities reporting such a shortage, and you can understand why Nashua ...
