This week, the GOP-led legislature pushed several conservative measures forward, including limiting abortion rights, and broadening gun rights. The state
A key Senate committee moved forward an amended version of the “divisive concepts” bill, adding it to the New Hampshire budget and setting up another test for Gov. Chris Sununu.
In a 4-2, party-line vote, Republicans on the Finance Committee voted to insert an amended version of the legislation into the budget trailer bill, adding some last-minute changes to a version put forward by the House in April.
First proposed by the House earlier this year, New Hampshire’s “divisive concepts” legislation would prohibit schools and public entities from teaching that one race or gender is superior to another, and would ban the teaching that a person is “inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.”
It's been a busy week in the State House, and in the state Senate in particular. Lawmakers there are working to finalize their proposal for the next two
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Last fall, the commission on Law Enforcement Accountability, Community, and Transparency (LEACT), appointed by Governor Sununu and made up of law enforcement and community leaders from across the state, released a number of recommendations for police reform in New Hampshire. We check in with four members of that commission on which recommendations have been put into action, which haven t, and what s next. Listen to our show with commission members in September 2020, shortly after the recommendations were released.
Air date: Wednesday, May 26, 2021.
Audio will be posted shortly after the conclusion of the program.
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Eddie Edwards - Assistant Commissioner of the N.H. Department of Safety. Former Chief of Police for South Hampton, and director of the N.H. Liquor Enforcement Commission from 2005 to 2013.