The article informs that Governor John Lynch of New Hampshire promised to end the state's perennial debates over school funding. That tax, which borrows from property-rich communities to pay for poorer ones, is the l...
Now that Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor, is out of the race. He was polling at 10% before bowing out, and some New Hampshire voters are thinking his supporters might switch to Haley. "I don't think that's unrealistic. I do think there are Democrats that are going to ...
The GOP currently holds the governorships of four out of six states in the region, including Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. New England, long a liberal stronghold, has been home to something of a Republican insurgence in recent years, with GO...
Roosevelt’s defeat of Republican challenger Governor Alf Landon of Kansas was a rout—the fourth-largest electoral vote margin ever. His 1940 win against Republican businessman Wendell Willkie wasn’t quite as impressive, but he still won 55 percent of the popular vote, and took the electoral ...
In October 1983, as Congress considered the creation of MLK Day, Meldrim Thompson, Jr., the former Republican governor of New Hampshire,privately pleadedwith President Ronald Reagan to veto any such legislation, calling Dr. King a “man of immoral character” with “well established” communist ...
Washington—Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, announced Tuesday that she will make a bid for the White House, becoming the first Republican to challenge former President Donald Trump for the party's nomination. ...
Iowa has long been a traditionally Republican state, with its current governor, House representatives and senators all belonging to the GOP. But from the 1950s, Democrats have had more of a presence there. With the increasing influence of trade unions came calls for the state's cities to ...
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This issue also includes a June 25resolution of the Massachusetts General Court regarding the publication of this first act of Congress within the Commonwealth, signed in type by Governor John Hancock (p1/c2); two acts of the Massachusetts General Court regarding public revenue, and a third to ...
NH-GOV:Former US Sen. Kelly Ayotte will be the first Republicanwoman elected governor of New Hampshire, CNN projects, winning the open race to succeed retiring GOP Gov. Chris Sununu. Ayotte, who is also a onetime state attorney general, will defeat Democrat Joyce Craig, the former mayor of...