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Democrat Billie Butler wins special election to represent Somersworth and Rollinsford in NH House

3 days ago | newhampshirebulletin.com | William Skipworth

by William Skipworth, New Hampshire Bulletin June 25, 2025 Billie Butler won a special election Tuesday to replace Dawn Evans, who moved out of the district, in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Butler, a Democrat, defeated Republican Ken Hilton by a vote of 964-774. Butler will now represent Strafford County District 12, which includes Somersworth and Rollinsford. Butler carried the vote in both communities. The district has reliably gone to Democrats in recent elections.
Scott Brown announces second run for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire

3 days ago | newhampshirebulletin.com | William Skipworth

Scott Brown, a former U.S. senator for Massachusetts and ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa during the first Trump administration, announced Wednesday he is running for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. Brown, a Republican, joins an early race to replace Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, who announced in March that she would retire at the end of her term. U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, a Democrat, entered the race in April. No other Republicans have announced campaigns thus far.
New Hampshire Legislature to vote on banning school buildings from being used to house migrants

3 days ago | newhampshirebulletin.com | William Skipworth

Rep. Juliet Harvey-Bolia said she filed House Bill 71 last year as “a contingency plan” in case Kamala Harris won the U.S. presidential election and “people were going to continue flowing through the border.” She said Donald Trump’s victory made the bill less important, but she decided not to withdraw it because “there’s no harm in putting the bill through anyway.”If passed on Thursday and signed into law by Gov.
New Hampshire lawmakers to vote on whether to give parents access to their child’s library history

4 days ago | newhampshirebulletin.com | William Skipworth

Library records in New Hampshire are currently confidential under state law, but a bill being considered by the state Legislature could carve out an exception for parents. House Bill 273, if passed, would mandate public libraries make kids’ borrowing histories available to their parents upon request. That bill, which went through the committee of conference process last week, is scheduled for a vote of the full House and Senate Thursday. The bill is sponsored by Rep.
New Hampshire lawmakers reach compromise on ending surprise ambulance bills

5 days ago | newhampshirebulletin.com | William Skipworth

Surprise ambulance billing may soon become a thing of the past in New Hampshire. Over the past few months, several lawmakers have proposed competing bills meant to address the struggles of patients who ride in an ambulance and end up surprised with massive bills after the fact. One such bill, Senate Bill 245, has now been approved by the House and Senate and is headed to Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s desk.
New Hampshire Republicans have the budget disconnect they’ve been working on for years

1 week ago | newhampshirebulletin.com | Dana Wormald

by Dana Wormald, New Hampshire Bulletin June 20, 2025 There’s nothing easy about crafting a state budget. Not only do you have to match squishy revenue projections with real spending, but the line between needs and wants is both subjective and blurry. That essential complexity is the main cause of the intraparty squabble between House and Senate budget writers and first-term Gov.
Demonstrators arrested after attempting to interrupt New Hampshire lawmakers’ budget negotiations

1 week ago | newhampshirebulletin.com | William Skipworth

by William Skipworth, New Hampshire Bulletin June 18, 2025 As negotiators with the New Hampshire House and Senate were preparing to call it a day after hours of debate on the state budget Tuesday, three protesters walked into the hearing room and pretended to fall dead. Those demonstrators, opposed to the Republican-controlled Legislature’s proposed changes to Medicaid, were arrested over the incident by New Hampshire State Police troopers guarding the State House.
New Hampshire Medicaid proponents make late-stage push against budget changes to program

1 week ago | newhampshirebulletin.com | William Skipworth

From a podium in Concord’s Legislative Office Building Tuesday morning, Kristina Amyot spoke about her intense struggles with substance use disorder, which included incarceration and bouncing between treatment centers that allowed her to stay only 28 days. That was “nowhere near enough time,” she said, but Medicaid “changed that,” providing a foundation for Amyot to rebuild her life.
New Hampshire is stuck in the politics of fragmentation, and the price is paid by the whole • New Hampshire Bulletin

1 week ago | newhampshirebulletin.com | Dana Wormald

by Dana Wormald, New Hampshire Bulletin June 17, 2025 When American politics is healthy — or as healthy as this two-party game can be — policy is created when the refined ideas of opposing philosophies collide, melding at their strongest points. On that subject, ask a few political junkies old enough to remember the 1980s and you’re bound to hear wistful tales of the collegial relationship between President Ronald Reagan and Democratic House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill.
He thought a decade-old misdemeanor was behind him. Then he took a vacation in Europe.

1 week ago | newhampshirebulletin.com | Philip Eil

Fabian Schmidt had no control over the light. It stayed on overhead from 6:30 in the morning until 11:30 at night. Which was a surprise for the 34-year-old New Hampshire resident because he always thought of prison as a dark place, like in the 1999 movie “The Green Mile.” His cell wasn’t fully dark at night either. Guards with flashlights regularly checked on everyone held at the Wyatt Detention Facility.