Concord has a restriction when it comes to new dead-end streets: no more than 1,000 feet.  That limit is in place for resident safety, argues Deputy City Manager Matthew Walsh. If the city approves longer dead-end roads, and developers build housing on those roads, residents could become trapped during severe weather events and the homes […]

During Thursday’s voting session, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted to pass an amended version of a bill aimed at easing requirements for home-based early education programs to open.  House Bill 1195 is a two-part bill that addresses zoning issues affecting home-based care and small child care centers. The first part of the bill […]

After the COVID-19 pandemic upended public education, New Hampshire’s Department of Education sought a new avenue for state investment: “learning pods.”  Presented by then-Commissioner Frank Edelblut, the idea was to allow parents to send children to smaller classroom environments outside the public school system, run by “tutors,” to allow more one-to-one attention and combat learning […]