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Episcopalians in New Hampshire have elected Reverend Robert Hirschfeld as their next Bishop. He will replace Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the history of the church. Robert Hirschfeld – currently the rector of Grace Church in Amherst Massachusetts – was elected on the first ballot, which is a rarity in Episcopalian elections. The chair of the Bishop Search and Nomination ...
Twenty-five years ago, when my wife and I moved to New Hampshire, we experienced two rather peculiar episodes. Feeling it was important to attend the annual Brentwood town meeting, we did so. We were asked at the door for our names, and they were checked against the voting registration book.
Rep said he has evidence of fraud House Majority leader D.J. Bettencourt officially resigned from the New Hampshire House yesterday after Rep. Brandon Giuda threatened to release documents showing the extent of Bettencourt's fabrication of an internship he claimed to have completed at Giuda's law office. "With deep disappointment, I announce that I am leaving the Legislature immediately ...
CONCORD, N.H. – New Hampshire Episcopalians elected a priest from Amherst, Mass. as their new bishop Saturday to replace Bishop V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the history of the Anglican Communion, who is scheduled to retire in January. About 200 electors who had gathered at St. Paul’s Church in Concord elected Rev. A. Robert Hirschfeld, rector of Grace Episcopal Church in ...
In a May 17 story about a visit by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney to New Hampshire, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a bridge in Hillsborough has not had vehicle traffic since the 1800s. A town clerk says cars used the bridge at least through the 1980s.
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - A Republican New Hampshire legislator has apologized for calling a former state GOP official who endorsed his political rival a "stripper" and a "pole dancer," party members said on Tuesday. The outburst at a GOP picnic over the weekend in Goffstown, New Hampshire, targeted Pam Manney, 55, a grandmother of four and former vice chairwoman of the state ...
KEENE, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Touting his middle-class roots, Vice President Joe Biden took another swipe at Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday as he reveled in his role as the president's campaign attack dog. Biden blasted the presumptive Republican nominee Romney as failing to care about workers at companies acquired by his former investment firm Bain Capital. Romney ...
Vice President Joe Biden is visiting New Hampshire again today as Democrats aggressively work the general election swing state, but the Republican National Committee plans to criticize the Obama-Biden ticket for failing to stem college cost increases as promised in 2008. New Hampshire is the state with the highest student loan debt level in the country; the average student graduates with $31,048 ...
Vice President Joe Biden campaigns Tuesday in the battleground state of New Hampshire and on Mitt Romney's home turf in Massachusetts. The topic: the economy? The question: Will Biden ratchet up the Bain attack? Romney, meanwhile, has fundraisers in New York and Connecticut. N.J. Gov. Chris Christie will join him at the New York event. [...]
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - A New Hampshire legislator apologized repeatedly on Tuesday for saying "Sieg Heil" during a heated floor exchange with House Speaker Bill O'Brien, a fellow Republican who critics have called a bully.
President Obama won his 34th and 35th consecutive Democratic primary contests on Tuesday night, claiming victories in Arkansas and Kentucky. But his margin was surprisingly small in Arkansas — a state in which he was opposed by Tennessee lawyer John Wolfe, who had previously been on the presidential primary ballot in Louisiana, Missouri and New Hampshire and will be on the ballot in Texas next ...
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