New Hampshire
Background
The State of New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state ranks 44th in land area and 46th in total area of the 50 states and 41st in population. It was one of the Thirteen Colonies and became the ninth state to ratify the United States Constitution. New Hampshire was also the first U.S. state to have its own state constitution.
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" More snow would just turn everybody postal ... My house just wouldn't be able to take it. "
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Boston Globe
...policy, they made their base happy at the expense of having any chance with centrist voters who have other priorities. So New Hampshire Democrats changed. They became less ideological and more pragmatic. Today, they take The Pledge against broad-based taxes,...
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The Union Leader
Latest news - About New Hampshire
...-- U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., has reintroduced a bill that would require the federal government to provide New Hampshire veterans with the same services that veterans in other states receive at their full-service hospitals. The bill would require...
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WMUR New Hampshire
A New Hampshire couple are among the "everyday Americans" invited to ride along on the whistle-stop tour that will take President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., the Saturday before their
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Political Intelligence
...every 1,000 women aged 15 through 19 in 2006. It was an increase of less than one percentage point. The national birth rate for females in that age group was more than twice New Hampshire's rate, 42 per 1,000. Mississippi led the nation, at 68 per 1,000....
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WCAX
...N.H. (AP) - Electronic unemployment filing systems have crashed in at least three states in recent days, but New Hampshire officials say they're in relatively good shape. With the number of Americans collecting jobless benefits reaching a 26-year high, the...
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WCAX
...N.H.—Goss International is laying off employees around the country, including at its Dover and Durham, N.H., facilities. The international printing press maker says it plans to eliminate 200 to 250 jobs nationwide by the end of March. Goss is not specifying...
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Boston Globe
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Bureau of Developmental Services (BDS) recently recognized 10 individuals for outstanding contributions in strengthening New Hampshire’s workforce by increasing employment opportunities
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eMaxHealth
...N.H.—The New Hampshire agency that oversees the state's race tracks wants to know if the Hinsdale Greyhound Park broke any laws when it declared bankruptcy last month. Timothy Connors, head of the state's Racing and Charitable Gaming Commission, has asked...
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Boston Globe
...3 to 6 inches of snow and sleet will have fallen from this storm, National Weather Service predicts. Public Service of New Hampshire reports no significant power losses as of Wednesday morning. The last ice storm, in December, severed power to more than 400,000...
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Nashua Telegraph
...also marks the start of the New Hampshire legislative session. Democrats will be in charge as the Legislature deals with that state's fiscal problems. Today lawmakers will take care of mostly organizational issues. In an historic first, the Senate is the...
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WCAX
...New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. The study also says some states, like Alabama, require voters to have ballots witnessed or notarized. A researcher for Pew, David Becker, said that requirement can add several...
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WOAI
Spice - About New Hampshire and U.S. Democratic Party
" When he (Brooks) picked up the hammer he said, 'Stop the heart, stop the bleeding,' and he struck (him) twice in the chest area, once was a solid blow, the second one was a glancing blow "
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Boston Globe
" We've been together 20 years, we've been waiting for this moment for 20 years, finally the state will recognize us as we are "
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Boston Globe
" Again I come to the people of New Hampshire: Republicans, independents, Democrats, Libertarians, vegetarians, all of them ... I am asking you again to let me go on one more mission. "
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Boston Globe
...successors include Democrats Brian Moran, a state legislator, and Terry McAuliffe, a leading party activist; and Republican Bob McDonnell, the state’s attorney general. In New Jersey, Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine plans to seek re-election. Possible rivals...
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Kansas City Infozine
...9 percentage points, in a state considered a battleground for most of the campaign. The state also chose former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen as the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from New Hampshire. She had been elected the state's first woman governor in 1996. Lynch...
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Boston Globe
...of whom campaigned for offshore drilling, as well as Mark Begich of Alaska, Mark Udall of Colorado, Tom Udall of New Mexico, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Jeff Merkley of Oregon. Most of those incoming freshmen are likely to pursue a centrist course...
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CQ Politics
Last Week - About New Hampshire
...has come to light. In the 1990s, he was troubled by the release of two memoirs, one by Ms Maynard and another by Margaret Salinger, one of two children he had had with Ms Douglas. The other, a son named Mark, was later to denounce his sister's book, saying...
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The Independent
...a mistake to cancel the West Wing and starts it up again. -President, College Democrats of New Hampshire Senator-Elect Jeanne Shaheen, I never get tired of saying that... by: you @ soon To post this comment click here: You must enter a subject for...
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Blue Hampshire
...but Benoit pledged to take the issue to other states. Benoit's Senate term ended last year. Paul Schibbelhute, who lobbied for Maine's law as New England director of the American Adoption Congress, checked in on the Vital Records office Friday to see how the...
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Boston Globe
...Maine -- Maine Gov. John Baldacci has asked President George W. Bush for a major disaster declaration for seven counties following an ice storm that left some residents without electricity for eight days. Baldacci made his formal request on Friday, the same...
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WMTW Portland
...Maine—Gov. John Baldacci on Friday asked President Bush to declare a major disaster for seven counties following an ice storm that caused more than $4 million in public damage and knocked out electricity for more than 220,000 homes and businesses. Baldacci...
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Boston Globe
...a virgin as she had claimed. I'm sure he wasn't one either! You can read more details online in the Guardian. Finally, a Miami-Dade circuit judge declared that the thirty-year old ban on gay adoption is unconstitutional. Therefore, allowed a North Miami...
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Skirt! Magazine
...spent a memorable two weeks out at Camp David in July '00 with then Israeli Pres. Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chair Yasser Arafat trying to broker a deal. The two sides couldn't reach an agreement. Clinton tried again in October of that year, convening...
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National Journal
...President today declared a major disaster exists in the state of New Hampshire and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by last month's ice storm. According to a press release from the White House, federal funding...
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Nashua Telegraph
...who lost power for up to 12 days after a December ice storm. In letters to its customers in north central Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Robert Schoenberger of Unitil said the company wanted to "sincerely apologize" for outages that persisted after the Dec....
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Boston Globe
...lost power for up to 12 days after a December ice storm. In letters to its customers in north central Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Robert Schoenberger of Unitil said the company wanted to "sincerely apologize" for outages that persisted after the Dec....
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Barre Montpelier Times-Argus
Last Month - About New Hampshire
...Utah over New Hampshire, Tennessee and Texas. Ball, a 26-year-old former Marine and three-tour Iraq veteran, is from West Valley City. U.S. District Magistrate Paul Warner rejected the fancy lawyering, sending the case back to D.C. The attorneys won't get...
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Salt Lake Tribune
...Poughkeepsie is most famous for a line in The French Connection, where Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, played in an Oscar winning turn by Gene Hackman, threatens to "nail" a confused suspect for "picking your feet in Poughkeepsie". The good cop, mad cop trick Doyle...
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The Register
...women were winning new responsibilities and new roles within the church. The 2003 ordination to the position of bishop of V. Gene Robinson in New Hampshire exacerbated those stresses to the point that some American congregations divorced themselves from the...
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EDGE Boston
...from Tele Atlas in Lebanon, N.H., learned the company would be cutting 6 percent of its staff. Tele Atlas makes digital navigation equipment like the dashboard maps you see in new cars. The company has offices all over the world and about 500 employees work...
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WCAX
...Collins, NECN) - The Chief Justice of New Hampshire's Supreme Court knows it's an inconvenience. "There's no question about it," he says. "I apologize for it, but I think the longer term inconvenience would be laying off staff." The state will suspend jury...
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NECN
...dog named Kiki to her New Hampshire owners. Meanwhile, volunteers have expanded their search for the dog from Linden into the Bayonne and Jersey City area after someone reported seeing the dog on a New Jersey Turnpike bridge. "People have been reaching out....
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Home News Tribune
...N.H. -- The New Hampshire Medical Examiner's Office said a woman found dead following a fire in Manchester was not killed by the blaze. Helen Trahan, 58, was found in her first floor apartment following the fire at 99 Eastern Avenue Sunday. The medical examiner's...
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WMUR New Hampshire
...moving overhead, dropping a band of snow. This snow is likely to be light on its southern end from the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut northeast to the MA/NH border, but will be more intense from Upstate New York through Vermont, Northern New Hampshire, and...
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NECN
...HAMPSHIRE (3-3): Wildcats appear to be a team on the rise. Coach Bill Herrion has a young team that includes four freshmen and six sophomores. . . The team lacks size and relies heavily on the 3-point shot. It was 12th in the country in 3-pointers made last...
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Providence Journal
...position won the support of many liberals and his strong showing (Mar., 1968) in the New Hampshire primary brought Sen. Robert F. Kennedy into the race and helped persuade Johnson not to seek reelection. Defeated for the nomination by Hubert H. Humphrey, McCarthy...
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