State government as it happens: the Statehouse, bills and roll-call votes, the Ayotte administration, schools, hearings and town halls, and elections.
152 stories Latest Oct. 19, 2026 2025–2026
Facebook can't tell you who lives here. GSR is building verified resident profiles and claimable seat pages for every NH office. The case, and the rules.
HB 1555 (Chapter 231) lets the NH state fire marshal hear de novo appeals of local fire chief decisions starting July 1, 2027.
SB 564 (Chapter 316) bars NH towns from road-length limits that impede development if the road meets the fire code, effective April 1, 2027.
HB 1300 hands tax cap recounts to school boards with no custody rules, no sequencing with candidate recounts, and the wrong ballot-retention schedule.
New Hampshire's 400-seat House has one member per 3,444 residents, the smallest ratio of any state. Pay: $200 a term. Five bids to change it died in the House.
New Hampshire amendments need two-thirds of voters. From 1986 to 2024, nine won a majority and failed anyway; the 2024 judicial retirement age got 65.6 percent.
New Hampshire public school enrollment fell 20.1% from fall 2000 to fall 2023, the largest share of any state. Federal counts by year, grade and projection.
SB 468 became law over Gov. Ayotte's veto Aug. 19, 2026. NH medical cannabis centers may seek approval to grow in greenhouses under rules DHHS must adopt.
NH House committees logged 170,000+ online sign-ins in 2025 and sided with the online majority 49% of the time. No House rule says what they owe those people.
NH's school tax cap question survived three court orders in 12 days. None was a final ruling on the merits, and the public hearings the judge mentioned are optional.
RSA 288:1 makes the biennial election a legal holiday. State offices stay open. A 1913 law bars requiring mill or factory work on legal holidays, with one exception.
NH's 2024 AI child-abuse-image clause needs no real child or obscenity. NH's high court rejected that logic in 2008; the Seventh Circuit did in 2026.
The 1898 Treaty of Paris left the status of the Philippines and Puerto Rico to Congress. How the 1899 Senate vote and the Insular Cases built an empire.
A Justice Department workshop taught federal FOIA staff to negotiate with requesters. No requester sat on the panel. What the law says.
NH's Department of Safety denied five records items in one sentence and set Dec. 16, 2026 for the sixth. What RSA 91-A:4 requires of a denial.
How New Hampshire's cannabis, gun and mandatory-reporting rules can penalize the people who tell the truth on forms and to officials.
A guide to civil rights suits against police in NH: qualified immunity, filing deadlines, damage caps, body-camera records and the first steps to take.
