Category: News

  Fire officials in Manchester are marking a milestone that is as concerning as it is celebratory.  On Thursday, the Fire Department’s Safe Station program welcomed the two thousandth visit by an addict.  According to Emergency Medical Services Officer Christopher Hickey, that marker was reached amidst what he called a “surge of intakes,” which he said has been averaging six to seven per day.  He considered that good news, especially since most of those visiting were new to the program, as opposed to being repeat clients.  Hickey also said that, despite its bad start, the number of overdoses in...

Governor Christopher Sununu announced the results of his initiative to reduce regulation in the Granite State yesterday.  On the day he took office, Sununu ordered a regulatory review of each agency of state government and imposed a ninety day moratorium on the adoption of new rules.  In a statement issued yesterday, Sununu said the effort identified over sixteen hundred rules that can simply just go away.  Sununu also said he’d issued a new Executive Order requiring agencies to either go through the process of repealing the identified regulations or not renewing them, and establishing the Regulatory Reform Steering Committee, which...

Hot in the city.  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.  Stupid is as stupid does.  The list of music and movie titles, quotes and clichés about last night’s meeting of the Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen could go on for a long time. Residents of the city’s South End brought the heat last night as speaker after speaker opposed a proposed change to the zoning ordinance, requested by politically connected developer Will Socha, that would allow up to two hundred high density multi-unit apartments to be built on South Mammoth Road.  Current zoning would allow about two...