Bill outlawing slavery gets senate hearing

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tate Representative Amanda Bouldin (D-Manchester), the bill’s prime sponsor, told the committee that the proposal seeks for the exception for the abolition of slavery in the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which allows slavery as a punishment for a crime where someone was duly convicted within the United States or any place in its jurisdiction, to be prohibited under New Hampshire law.

Manchester residents share Front Street/Amoskeag concerns with GACIT

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“We don’t just get a giant lottery check for $234 million and spend it how we want, we get it in different buckets and pieces and we have that restricts from what it can be used for,” said New Hampshire Department of Transportation Director of Project Development Bill Oldenburg in response to project delays affecting Manchester.