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Commissions appointed by both political parties to study the 2012 presidential primary calendar generally agree that a few states should be allowed to vote in February, with others spread out starting in March, according to New Hampshire officials involved in the negotiations.
If the Democratic and Republican parties get their way, New Hampshire may have seen the last of Christmas campaigning and primaries within days of New Year's.
The presidential primary process is flawed and needs to be fixed, the Democratic National Committee says. A committee has issued recommendations that de-emphasize the importance given to early contests like Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, and the outsized influence of the superdelegates.
Republican Frank Guinta has been campaigning for the 1st Congressional District seat since May. He had raised $236,000 by September. He is the two-term mayor of New Hampshire's largest city.
MANCHESTER — Former President Bill Clinton gave New Hampshire Democrats a sobering but upbeat pep talk on health care, energy, higher education and foreign policy Wednesday night.
Historian. Statesman. Democratic cheerleader. These were just some of the roles former president Bill Clinton played in three appearances in New Hampshire yesterday.
PEPPERELL -- Selectmen have unanimously voted to offer the job of town administrator to Newburyport Mayor John Moak. They plan to enter closed-door negotiations with Moak later this week. Last night's vote considered both Moak and Jason Hoch, former administrator for the New Hampshire towns of Littleton and Plaistow.
Mayor John Moak is a finalist to be the next town administrator in Pepperell. According to a weekly newspaper within the Nashoba Publishing Company, Moak was interviewed last Monday night, along with Jason Hoch, a former administrator in New Hampshire.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad of North Dakota and the panel’s senior Republican, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, are floating the idea of a bipartisan commission to take on the problem of the federal deficit.That deficit in fiscal 2009 was an unsustainable $1.4 trillion, a post-World War II record. And although that may ease some in the coming decade with economic recovery, there is ...
A New Hampshire legislative committee is voting on whether to mandate paid sick days for some workers.
State legislators are going to consider moving New Hampshire's 2010 primary from September to August.