New Hampshire state law gives convicted prisoners three years to request a new trial. After that, they lose the right. With a narrow exception for DNA forensics, that’s true even if new evidence contradicting their guilt emerges. If someone else confesses to the crime after three years, they can’t request a new trial. If previously […]
The perennial debate over daylight saving time in the U.S. is coming around again, but for one New Hampshire state representative, it’s never gone away. In fact, the matter has haunted Rep. Timothy Horrigan, a Durham Democrat, since the moment of his birth, on Oct. 3 — or was it Oct. 4? — 1956. At […]
In Punta Gorda, Fla., a harbor town on the Gulf of Mexico crisscrossed by canals and cycling infrastructure, home values have dropped 8.3% in the past year, according to the Zillow Home Values Index. Home values in Austin, Texas, have fallen by 5% and in Denver, Colo., by 3.4%. Not so in New Hampshire. The […]
With the prospect of an electrically independent New Hampshire unlikely, officials must consider how the state could find a less lonely path toward achieving its energy goals. A Republican-backed bill passed in 2025 initially called for the state to explore leaving New England’s regional electric system, something supporters hoped would lower bills for ratepayers in […]
New Hampshire’s political elites quickly pointed fingers after a Democratic National Committee panel voted Friday to strip the Granite State of its first-in-the-nation status on the presidential nomination calendar. Republican elites blamed Democrats for the Rules and Bylaws Committee decision. Democratic elites blamed their national party leadership. What neither side did, but should, is consider […]
It is clear in hindsight, and clear to many at the time, that the choice to sideline New Hampshire in the 2024 Democratic presidential primary process was designed to spare President Joe Biden from scrutiny over his ability to mount a vigorous reelection campaign. South Carolina was chosen to go first. As New Hampshire, following […]
A path exists for New Hampshire to electrically isolate itself from the rest of New England, according to a study released this month. But such a move, the authors said, would likely come at a significant cost for ratepayers. The July 15 report is the outcome of a monthslong investigation into the feasibility of New […]
