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By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Danielle Feole knew the drill taking her son Joey, 6, to see President Joe Biden.The wait to hear the president would be long, so she packed an iPad and Grey, the stuffed animal wolf that’s attached to her son’s hip.The afternoon in Concord would be...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
New Hampshire is known for many firsts: the first to declare independence from England and its first-in-the-nation primary.New Hampshire is also the first state where residents of a manufactured housing community purchased their park, forming a...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Cassandra Sanchez’s visit to a Tennessee facility last year raised an alarm for the New Hampshire child advocate.One of the children held at the facility told her he had one goal: to do “whatever it takes” to return to the Granite State.A new law,...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Based on their income levels, registered nurses can afford a two-bedroom apartment at $1,833 a month in the state’s rental market. Public school teachers and electricians make enough for a typical one-bedroom at $1,430.Since rental costs are on the...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
At the end of the month, Edmund McGahey plans to load up his U-Haul with the American flag neatly rolled behind his front door, take his wind chimes down from his front porch, pack his eight potted Christmas cacti, and leave for Texas.With an...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Words like institutional and hardened type of secure construction raise alarm bells for Cassandra Sanchez.When the Office of the Child Advocate supported legislation to build a new youth detention facility, a requirement was that the center take on a...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
With the Hunger Free New Hampshire Act, Becky Whitley wanted a buffet of solutions to eliminate food insecurity. In the end, Gov. Chris Sununu signed a small portion of her original bill into law. Students who are eligible for free and reduced lunch...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
The overdue tax bill facing John Jones felt like a death sentence.The lifelong resident of the Live-Free-or-Die state had been late to pay his taxes before, but this time was different.Jones, 66, owed $5,097.44 to the city of Franklin, a working-class...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
At the start of the pandemic, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu wanted to make sure no one lost their home.Like governors around the country, he used his executive powers to suspend mortgage foreclosures and issued a moratorium on evictions. And in the...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
The state’s education funding formula will be the focus of a select group of lawmakers this session hoping to make it more equitable and pass constitutional muster.The bipartisan group, comprised of members of the House committees on education and...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
On Father’s Day last June, a drag story hour at Teatotaller Cafe drew families and children inside. It also attracted nearly two dozen members of NSC-131 to stand outside in protest, chanting and performing Nazi salutes through the cafe’s first-floor...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
The Allenstown school district spends five times more than the amount the state of New Hampshire gives to pay for an adequate education.This lopsided equation relies heavily on local taxpayers to make up the difference to pay for everything from...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
The New Hampshire housing shortage is squeezing businesses trying to recruit workers, taxing families looking to find an affordable place to live and has become a focal point for state politicians trying to chip away at a solution. The statistics are...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
It only took Tonya McMurray’s child a few seconds to realize something that was said in a moment of anger would become words to regret.In a heated conversation, a back-and-forth between teenagers taunting each other, McMurray’s child threatened...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
Gavin Dubois sometimes doesn’t have the words to express how he feels. But when he picks up a pair of drumsticks, he can read his emotions as clearly as notes on a sheet of music. Amid the sounds of the snare, the melodies of his marimba, his rage...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
An affordable, manageable starter home in New Hampshire can come in many different shapes and sizes — a small single-family home, an accessory dwelling unit on an existing lot, a manufactured home or even a tiny house on a small tract of land.However,...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
When Andrew Georgevits was a substitute teacher at Franklin Middle School a few years ago, he quickly realized that in the eighth grade class he was teaching, reading levels varied drastically between students.Many districts have found those learning...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
For three decades economists have signaled that New Hampshire has a “housing mismatch” — or an Econ 101 issue where demand supersedes supply of available houses. But new numbers released by New Hampshire Housing illustrate what a vast discrepancy this...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
When Eugene Mutegetsi left Kenya, he thought he’d arrive in New Hampshire and find an apartment. Once he found a place to live, he hoped his wife would be able to move to the United States as well.Instead, he last saw her eight months ago. Since...
By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI
With two maps of the United States, a flag in the corner and photos of past U.S. presidents pinned to a foldout whiteboard, an office at Overcomers Refugee Services resembles that of a high school history classroom. Instead of high school kids, Eileen...
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