By Dana Wormald | Editor
Good morning, New Hampshire, and welcome to Tuesday. Today, William Skipworth looks at New Hampshire’s rural healthcare initiative amid the federal government’s annual review of funding for the GO-NORTH program. Also, States Newsroom’s Jacob Fischler writes about anger among a bipartisan group of U.S. senators, including Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, over the Trump administration’s plans to import Russian diesel. And, in local journalism news, William Skipworth takes home fresh awards for his investigative series on the state’s disability care system. Thank you for reading, and enjoy the day. — Dana
Donnalee Lozeau, GO-NORTH director, speaks to the New Hampshire Public Health Association at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord on April 23, 2026. (Photo by William Skipworth/New Hampshire Bulletin)
By William Skipworth
When the federal government revealed how much money it was giving New Hampshire as part of its Rural Health Transformation Program, Granite State leaders bragged that the state secured more funding than any other New England state. However, that could all change soon as the federal government rescores each state based on their first-year performance.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen joined a group of U.S. senators in denouncing the Trump administration’s order on Russian diesel. Here, Shaheen speaks at NHTI in Concord on Oct. 22, 2024. (File photo by Claire Sullivan/New Hampshire Bulletin)
By Jacob Fischler
The Trump administration’s order to allow import of Russian diesel violates a 2022 law banning Russian energy imports while the country’s war with Ukraine is ongoing, according to a bipartisan group of U.S. senators. Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Democrat Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Republicans Susan Collins of Maine, John Curtis of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Thom Tillis of North Carolina called on Trump to “immediately reverse course.”
COMMENTARY
By Bulletin staff report
Bulletin staff reporter William Skipworth took home a pair of awards at the New England Newspaper and Press Association awards on Oct. 9. Skipworth won a first-place A-Mark Prize for Investigative Journalism for his series on abuse and neglect in the state’s disability care system, as well as a Publick Occurrences award for the same series.
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