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It's always easier to govern in good economic times than bad ones. Many state governments increased their budgets prior to the current deep recession, and now confront budget deficits they are constitutionally required to balance.

When Congress battles over thorny bills, parliamentarian Alan Frumin has been known to sleep in his office - on call 24/7 as the Senate's Solomon, divining the answers.

New Hampshire officials are reaching out to federal officials for disaster relief after the storm ... not the latest one that drowned the area, the wind storm from late last month that left hundreds of thousands in the state without power.

Flooding in Salem brought Gov. John Lynch to some of the areas in the state yesterday hardest hit from the storm that dropped several inches of rain over the last several days.

A major Nor'easter stalled off the mid Atlantic coast will pound southern New Hampshire with heavy rain and wind; flooding and power outages are expected.

The Professional Fire Fighters of New Hampshire today will file a class action lawsuit against the Local Government Center and its Health Trust.

Granite State voters on Tuesday signaled a desire to vote on same-sex marriage, according to results of town meetings from across the state.

The so-called tent tax may be gone by this summer, if the Senate upholds a vote in the New Hampshire House.

CONCORD a ' A former employee has lost a racial discrimination lawsuit against the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services.

New Hampshire town meetings yesterday gave voters the chance to vote for a nonbinding resolution favoring putting a marriage amendment on the ballot.

Tanya Saturday, March 6, 2010 WHO: Merrimack native Kristen Caisse, Mrs. New Hampshire America 2009.

The city of Concord and two other plaintiffs yesterday filed a lawsuit with 294 backers claiming the state violated the state Constitution by increasing what municipalities and school districts must pay into the pension system for police officers, firefighters and teachers.

You may have heard about or lived through WindStorm 2010 .A TheA Storm came in late on Thursday, February 25 th and many people in New Hampshire lost power, which meant that they had no heat or running water.A We were lucky to only have been without for three days but some people we know are still out today a full six days after the storm hit.

New Hampshire's North Country can be beautiful in the spring. Temperatures rise into the fifties and even sixties, trees take on that glow of red just before leafing out and travelers get to see more of the snow capped mountains because the leaves are not out yet to block the view.

Most of the 360,000 customers who lost power last week now have lights and heat, but there's still no relief for a few thousand residents living where the storm buzz-sawed trees and utility poles the worst.

The Center for the Book at the New Hampshire State Library asks everyone in New Hampshire to come together in March and read Harper Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird .

Sponsors of a bill to legalize video slot machines in New Hampshire want to use the first $50 million it raises to restore cuts to social service programs.

New Hampshire authorities say water samples taken from the Connecticut River near the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant show no detectable levels of tritium, the radioactive isotope leaking from Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.

In his 2008 state-of-the-state speech, Gov. John Lynch called on lawmakers to enact a new tax credit to encourage businesses to create jobs in New Hampshire's northernmost and poorest county.

Tackling current and future economic challenges faced by the state and myths about New Hampshire, a public policy expert gave town residents a look at a rough short-term budgetary future.