New Hampshire Senate President Sharon Carson appointed Sens. David Rochefort and Suzanne Prentiss to the newly created Developmental Services Oversight Commission. They’re the first two appointees to the commission, which was established in the wake of a Bulletin investigation on rampant abuse and neglect in New Hampshire’s intellectual and developmental disability care system. The taxpayer-funded […]

The Disability Rights Center-NH’s investigation into deaths in New Hampshire’s disability care system is still ongoing, DRC officials said. The investigation was launched in November and the DRC tentatively hoped to have a report released this summer. However, Deodonne Bhattarai, a DRC spokesperson, said the agency’s current goal is to complete the investigation by the […]

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Ten percent of New Hampshire’s population today are kids in grades K-8. When I was growing up in a New Jersey suburb, 20 percent of the popula…