Hillary notably won the primary - there was the famous scene of her crying in Portsmouth and prognosticators wondering if that was bad for her image. For dems if you want when nh picked the dem that won the general you have to go back to carter.

I’m kind of ambivalent about nh keeping it - but sc isn’t the place it should go to if it loses it. The best states to take it are either Illinois or Wisconsin.

Lol nobody can justify it. Everyone hates doing it. That's less about DCYF and more about the whole state. Any child with severe mental health issues is going to sit in the ER for weeks because there are no beds for kids anywhere. And they can only stay there if the hospital says they're a risk to themselves or others. Believe me, I've had the hospital kick kids out with nowhere to go after hours because they changed their mind and decided they're not a risk any more.

I think it was a golden retriever

Gone, gone are the days when a drive from 101A/101 to Rt 3 was only slowed down by out of staters turning out of the antique stores by the driving range before the bottling plant. When you could go several miles (gasp!) without a Dunkin. When sighting the big green glass tower over the hotel let you know you had emerged from the wilderness with your moccassins from the World's Largest Moccasin shop as trophies and once again were ready to face the world.
(What, no, I am not familiar with the evolving pain of that drive over the years, why do you ask? ;) )

As a former CASA and close friend to many foster parents, I got to the level of “I can’t even”… and I didn’t deal with nearly the case load case workers have.

IIRC Ribsam was thought to be the breathe of fresh air this department needed but in the years since it seems worse.

My specific question is how does the department justify ER placement of kids in their custody? There have been several cases I know of in which a child is dropped off at an ER by a parent who can no longer handle them, CHIPS doesn’t seem to work, and now there is no where else to put them…. And the kid sits in an ED for weeks if not longer.

Yeah you’d have to either find a roommate that will let you use the address or move to NH temporarily b4 you take off in the RV.

No

You currently can’t have any firearms with a medical marijuana card in NH. Make it make sense

The argument is that loose guns laws can’t overlap with loose cannabis laws as if there aren’t bars and liquor stores at every corner

What’s your take on CASA?

Do you think a 12 month permanency timeline appropriately meets the needs of everyone in the family?

Do you think families would benefit more from being able to mandate services before a court case is filed?

How could DCYF better support the mental/emotional needs of workers?

ya looking at that affidavit theres no way to fill one out as an RV'er regardless of how much time i spend in NH

I don’t know much about your advocacy, and I wish you good luck, but just a thought/comment.

It seems that every time there’s a new tax that comes with a promise of reducing other taxes, the reduction never materializes.

If the proposed tax (marijuana sales in this instance) comes with a promise that it’ll reduce property taxes, that should be actually written into the law. Otherwise, I fear that the property taxes might stay the same, and the schools will just take the extra marijuana tax money too.

Do y'all whine about ANYTHING ELSE?

As far as banking goes, though, it's a bit trickier.

They likely would. Oregon is one of our sales-tax-free brethren, but they tax weed sales at 17%.

That's just what you want, the government running it. The key is to go the medical route first and get a medical dispensary on every corner. Everyone gets their med card for insomnia and boom, killer weed to cure those sleepless nights. The retail shops can't compete with the dispensaries for price and quality. It's like comparing local craft beer to Miller lite. And, funny how it works, the black market is just as good as the dispensaries.

NH doesn't have a sales tax, unless they treat this differently.

Wait until he realizes that in a scenario where only government grown boof is available, all the money is still going to Maine.

I'm in nonprofits now and watching the state make demands while giving no money no direction and now guidelines. It's absurd.

It's a direct quote from the article

I’m the treasurer of a local area agency here in NH (mental health/development disability) and the issue of pay is a huge deal right now. I think that most state agencies that function with a volunteer board of directors do in fact try everything we can to get more money in our employees hands. However, part of the problem is that funding is usually in the form of contracts and reimbursement rates for Medicaid/Medicare that are not sufficient to pay people market rates for services rendered. Another huge issue from my perspective is that much of the government grant funds are not sustainable and are one-time in nature. We get asked by the state to start programs, build facilities, hire staff, etc. for initiatives that have no clear sustainable source of funding. It’s not efficient or fair to the people we would need to hire to staff the programs (assuming we could hire anyone).

Thank you for your service to the state, please know that it is appreciated.

100% as long as it’s not federal legal, this won’t happen in NH.

I’m so glad I’m 10min from Tyngsborough lol

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God I hope that's not the case, that it's not pressure from police "unions." How much ongoing regression can this country lay at the feet of the police? If it's the case of waiting for a federal reclassification, then that's at least understandable on some level.

Some people in these comments apparently 🥴