Breaking News: Poll Shows Hodes Favored Over Sununu in 2010

According to a poll released today, more registered voters in New Hampshire would prefer to see Democratic Congressman Paul Hodes rather than former Republican Senator John Sununu win if they were to run against each other in the 2010 senate seat race. 42% favored Hodes, 36% favored Sununu, and 22% were undecided. Hodes has confirmed [...]

Problematic Primary Polls Explained

A new study released Monday attempts to explain what went wrong with polling leading up to the 2008 New Hampshire Democratic Primary. In the days before the primary, then-Senator Obama held commanding leads over then-Senator Clinton in every major poll.  As such, the final result – Senator Clinton winning by 2 points and a little [...]

UNH Goes Out Blazing in Amazing Weekend of Hockey

UNH won’t be going to the Frozen Four this year, but they went out blazing and played their best hockey of the season over two games this weekend during the NCAA Northeast Regionals. The Wildcats came close and far closer than most people thought they would. On Saturday, with 5.7 seconds left on the clock, [...]

Newspaper Woes Hitting Home

The New Hampshire Union Leader will confront the economic recession and the general decline of the newspaper industry by combining its Friday and Saturday Editions into a single edition in some areas, according to publisher Joe McQuaid in an upbeat Publisher’s Note this morning. “[F]or areas outside Greater Manchester, we will discontinue Saturday distribution and [...]

Martin: “I’m Very Proud of My Decisions”

Senate District 3 candidate Bud Martin today told WMUR’s Sean McDonald that he is “very proud of my decisions” to let a convicted sexual predator off on personal recognizance bail and to let another man go free after he installed video and audio equipment in a public restroom. Both decisions were heavily criticized by the [...]

Martin Campaign to Conduct Opposition Research … on Martin

A source tells NowHampshire.com that the campaign of Senate District 3 Democratic nominee “Bud” Martin will deploy experienced volunteers to Laconia this week not to research the record of Martin’s Republican opponent Jeb Bradley but rather to research Martin’s own record. The Martin campaign appeared to have been caught unprepared by a NowHampshire.com story last [...]

Sen. Gregg Delivers Republican Response to President’s Radio Address – Video

U.S. Senator Judd Gregg this morning delivered the Republican response to President Obama’s weekly radio address.  In it, Gregg focuses on what the GOP is calling the President’s “spend, tax, and borrow” fiscal policies that the Senator contends will “dramatically grow the size and cost of government and move it to the left.” As the [...]

Earth Hour – Lights Out in NH

To recognize this year’s Earth Day, on Saturday night the 28th, from 8:30-9:30 P.M. more than 1,800 cities world wide are participating in Earth Hour 2009. The event is aimed at promoting global awareness and invites communities, businesses, and governments to switch off lights for one hour and send a global message to take action [...]

NH Climate Change Task Force: Reduce Greenhouse Gases 80% – Or Else…

This week the New Hampshire Climate Change Policy Task Force released its Climate Action Plan that it had submitted to the Governor. The plan argues for immediate action across the state on the issue and most notably arguesthat New Hampshire should “strive to achieve a long-term reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 80 percent below [...]

Martin Campaign to NowHampshire.com: “Thank you for your cooperation”

An on the record e-mail exchange between the Bud Martin campaign and NowHampshire.com contradicts the histrionic tone and tenor of the campaign’s reaction in the New Hampshire Union Leader this morning to our story yesterday that brought to light controversial decisions Martin made as a district court judge in the mid- to late-nineties. Indeed, in [...]

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