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NH Senate Approves Same-Sex Marriage Amendment

The New Hampshire Senate has approved an amendment to the same-sex marriage bill,... more

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New Hampshire Governor Seeks Changes To Gay Marriage Bill

New Hampshire's Governor John Lynch asked state lawmakers on Thursday to revise a... more

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N. H. Gov. wants changes before he signs same sex marriage bill

Gov. John Lynch said he will veto the same-sex marriage bill if it does not change... more

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New Hampshire Senate passes gay-marriage bill

CONCORD, New Hampshire (Reuters) - New Hampshire's Senate passed a bill on... more

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Teen hiker lost for 3 nights in NH is found safe

He will be climbing the world's highest peaks soon. Adventurer spirit will allow... more

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Dozens of cottages burn at NH Christian Center

ALTON BAY, N.H. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine the cause of an... more

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I Hate Your State. Part 2

I hate Kentucky through New York.

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New England Center of Gay Marriage Battle

BOSTON — The Iowa Supreme Court’s approval of same-sex marriage on Friday gave advocates an important first victory in the nation’s heartland, thwarting the notion that only the Northeast will accept it. But for now, New England remains the nucleus of the same-sex marriage movement, with a campaign under way to extend marriage rights to gay men and lesbians in all six of the region’s states by 2012...

Prof. David H. Watters, director of the Center for New England Culture at the University of New Hampshire, said there were also deep-rooted cultural reasons for the momentum here. Same-sex couples have found acceptance in New England for over a century, he said, especially among its large intellectual class. In the late 1800s, marriage-like relationships between upper-class women in and around Boston were so common that a phrase — “Boston marriage” — emerged to describe them.

The region’s strong libertarian bent also helps explain why same-sex marriage has found support here, Professor Watters said. “The New England states really emphasize individual liberties,” he said, pointing out that the abolition and women’s suffrage movements also started here. “There’s a strong regional tradition that if somebody has rights, everybody ought to have them.”

New England is also the least religious region of the country, according to a recent survey by Trinity College in Hartford. Evangelistic churches, often among the most adamant opponents of same-sex marriage, are especially rare, and Catholicism is waning.

Moreover, the Northeast is home to two of the three states — New Hampshire, New Jersey and Vermont — that allow civil unions for same-sex couples, an intermediate step that supporters say has made same-sex marriage seem less threatening.

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Violet-Same-sex marriages,
Green-Unions granting rights similar to marriage,
Purple-Unions granting limited/enumerated rights,
Blue-Foreign same-sex marriages recognized,
Yellow-Statute bans same-sex marriage
Orange-Constitution bans same-sex marriage
Red-Constitution bans same-sex marriage and other kinds of same-sex unions

What's the status of your state? Are you happy with it's laws on same sex marriage? And why is New England just so damn awesome and progressive?BOSTON — The Iowa Supreme Court’s approval of same-sex marriage on Friday... more

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N.H. House votes to end death penalty.

CONCORD, N.H. - Three months after a man was sentenced to die for killing a police... more

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New Hampshire House hears from medical marijuana supporters

CONCORD, N.H. — Proponents of medical marijuana urged New Hampshire lawmakers... more

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New Hampshire Medical Marijuana Patient Clayton Holton Tells His Story

Clayton Holton uses marijuana to help fight Muscular Dystrophy.

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Oklahoma, New Hampshire and Washington State Have Declared Their Sovereignty

Looks to me like "as of Wednesday, February 4, 2009 3:50 PM" the state of... more

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Madmen and Dreamers "The Children of Children" NEW DATES!!!!

Madmen and Dreamers presents: "The Children Of Children", which is a Rock... more

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Topic of the Week 11/7/08

Hi Currenters (Currentators, Currentians?)! It’s time for the topic of the week... more

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Should Kids Be Able to Graduate After 10th Grade?

High school sophomores should be ready for college by age 16. That's the message from New Hampshire education officials, who announced plans Oct. 30 for a new rigorous state board of exams to be given to 10th graders. Students who pass will be prepared to move on to the state's community or technical colleges, skipping the last two years of high school. (See pictures of teens and how they would vote.)

Once implemented, the new battery of tests is expected to guarantee higher competency in core school subjects, lower dropout rates and free up millions of education dollars. Students may take the exams - which are modeled on existing AP or International Baccalaureate tests - as many times as they need to pass. Or those who want to go to a prestigious university may stay and finish the final two years, taking a second, more difficult set of exams senior year. "We want students who are ready to be able to move on to their higher education," says Lyonel Tracy, New Hampshire's Commissioner for Education. "And then we can focus even more attention on those kids who need more help to get there."

But can less schooling really lead to better-prepared students at an earlier age? Outside of the U.S., it's actually a far less radical notion than it sounds. Dozens of industrialized countries expect students to be college-ready by age 16, and those teenagers consistently outperform their American peers on international standardized tests. (See pictures of the college dorm room's evolution.)

With its new assessment system, New Hampshire is adopting a key recommendation of a blue-ribbon panel called the New Commission on Skills of the American Workforce. In 2006, the group issued a report called Tough Choices or Tough Times , a blueprint for how it believes the U.S. must dramatically overhaul education policies in order to maintain a globally competitive economy. "Forty years ago, the United States had the best educated workforce in the world," says William Brock, one of the commission's chairs and a former U.S. Secretary of Labor. "Now we're No. 10 and falling."

As more and more jobs head overseas, Brock and others on the commission can't stress enough how dire the need is for educational reform. "The nation is running out of time," he says.

----more at link----High school sophomores should be ready for college by age 16. That's the message... more

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Dixville Notch: 15 for Obama, 6 for McCain

Dixville Notich is a small village in New Hampshire with 75 residents. The town opens... more

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Obama wins midnight vote at Dixville Notch, NH - first results of 2008 presidential election

BARACK OBAMA: 15 JOHN MCCAIN: 6 Tuesday, November 4, 2008: In the first results... more

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You really could decide the vote! 1 in 10 million chance

With the election a mere week hence and the presidential candidates making their final... more

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Senator Biden makes a stop in Suffolk, Virginia.

October 25, 2008 - Senator Joe Biden makes yet another stop in Virginia for the... more

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Meghan McCain: NH, I'll Get Tattoo for You

If Sen. John McCain wins the presidency in a little more than three weeks, his... more

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