By Dana Wormald | Editor
Good morning, New Hampshire, and welcome to Thursday. Today, William Skipworth reports on the status of the Office of the Child Advocate’s final report on the recent Sununu Center allegations. In the Thursday commentary, a new batch of rankings for New Hampshire may not tell us much, but it does add to a pretty rough July for state Republicans. And, from Molly Rains, New Hampshire won’t host a “Nuclear Innovation Lifecycle Campus” after all. Thank you for reading, and enjoy the day. — Dana
An investigation began in March after a child being held at the Sununu Youth Services Center, the state’s juvenile detention facility in Manchester, called the Office of the Child Advocate. (Photo by Dave Cummings/New Hampshire Bulletin)
By William Skipworth
Jason Taylor, one of New Hampshire’s two assistant child advocates, said the Office of the Child Advocate’s final report on its investigation into potential abuse and neglect at the Sununu Youth Services Center could take “certainly weeks but maybe months” to complete. “Really, what I hope our report will talk about is the impacts of isolation and a lack of activity on children’s health,” Taylor said in an interview this week. “I think that’s the story. I really, honestly do.”
Gov. Kelly Ayotte celebrates the signing of a pair of bills at the State House in June 2025, one to broaden "parental rights" and the other to expand the voucher-like education freedom accounts program. (Photo by William Skipworth/New Hampshire Bulletin)
COMMENTARY
By Dana Wormald
“I suspect that part of the slide under Republicans’ watch is due to the elevation of fringe voices with disparate axes to grind, with targets ranging from immigrants and LGBTQ+ people to vaccines and literature that offends them. But there has to be some responsibility taken by the Republican traditionalists who have not only embraced the anti-government dreams of the many Free Staters in their ranks but continue to peddle the idea that we don’t actually owe anything to each other.”
By Molly Rains
In a federal contest for the chance to host a nuclear fuel fabrication and waste disposition site, New Hampshire will not advance to the next round. The Granite State is not named on a list of contenders for a possible “nuclear lifecycle innovation campus” envisioned by the Trump administration, according to a Tuesday press release from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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