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Tomorrow the New Hampshire Senate will vote on its marriage equality bill and the outlook isn’t very rosy. Via BlueHampshire, the chart below shows how the Senators are expected to vote. (Embiggen for clarity.) The red names are the anticipated “No” votes. New Hampshire residents are encouraged to contact their Senators via this handy list TODAY. Last month the New …

The New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee voted 3-2 yesterday to recommend that a marriage equality bill not move forward to the full Senate for a vote. Chairwoman Deborah Reynolds, a Democrat, said she doesn’t think New Hampshire is ready for gay marriage. Republicans who voted against it said marriage is an institution created and defined by God as between one …

Today a New Hampshire Senate judiciary committee holds a public meeting on marriage equality before deciding to send the issue to the full Senate for a vote. Last month the New Hampshire House narrowly approved same-sex marriage by a vote of 186-179. Rallies from both sides are taking place at this moment outside the State House. Inside at the hearing, …

On Wednesday, the New Hampshire Senate will decide on marriage equality, following last month’s narrow approval by the state House. Gov. John Lynch (D) has said that he opposes same-sex marriage but has not said if he will veto the bill. It seems doubtful that the House could muster the votes necessary to override a veto.

One step closer in New Hampshire. The House has voted to make New Hampshire the third state allowing gays to marry two years after they granted them the right to enter into civil unions. The House voted 186-179 to send the bill to the Senate. The first attempt to pass the bill fell one vote short, but opponents were unable …

Seems like everything is marriage-related today. One more item: the New Hampshire House makes their vote today on that states’s marriage equality bill. Two years ago New Hampshire legalized civil unions. Half of New England is in play this week, isn’t it?

New Hampshire’s marriage equality bill deadlocked 10-10 in the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. The bill now goes to the full House next week for a debate without a recommendation from the committee. I’m not sure how the lack of a recommendation will affect its progress. Can anyone weigh in on that?

I don’t usually do “news of the weird” type posts, but this one from New Hampshire amused me. A Hazmat call to a Manchester Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant was determined to have been sparked by a hoax call, police said. Firefighters were called to the restaurant on Hooksett Road because employees reported eye and skin irritation from a fire extinguisher. …

Sen. Judd Gregg has decided he can’t get along with the Obama administration and has withdrawn his nomination for Secretary of Commerce. (At least, that’s what he says the reason is.) President Obama’s choice for Commerce Secretary, Senator Judd Gregg, withdrew his nomination on Thursday. He said there were “irresolvable conflicts” between him and the administration. “It has become apparent …

As expected, today Barack Obama nominated Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) to be his Secretary of Commerce in a deal that included New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch (D) appointing a Republican to replace him in the Senate. Therefore, there will be no supermajority for the Democrats in the Senate. Lynch has tapped New Hampshire politico Bonnie Newman, who once worked for …

The Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders are working on a plan for marriage equality in all of New England by 2012. “We can make New England a marriage-equality zone by strategically combining existing legal, electoral and on-the-ground know-how to fast-track marriage in every New England state,” GLAD Executive Director Lee Swislow said. “By 2012, we not only can have …

On January 7th, openly gay New Hampshire state Rep. Jim Splaine will introduce an amendment to change that state’s recent civil union law into one that provides for full marriage equality. When legislators meet in 2009, there will be several bills to consider that deal with civil unions and gay marriage. State Rep. Jim Splaine, D-Portsmouth, submitted a bill asking …

Could four more New England states get marriage equality by 2012? The group that helped legalize gay marriage in two New England states wants to do the same in the other four by the year 2012. GLAD — which stands for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders — announced the campaign Tuesday, the fifth anniversary of the key court decision …

A front-row heckler interrupted Hillary Clinton’s speech to supporters in New Hampshire last night, shouting “Iron my shirt!” and waving a sign with the same message. An unseen man in the rear of the auditorium did the same. Clinton handled the man with aplomb and sent him off with, “If there’s anybody left in the auditorium who wants to learn …

Shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve, gay couples began being civil-unioned in New Hampshire, as the new state law took effect. New Hampshire’s civil unions law — enacted by the Democrat-dominated Legislature early last year and signed by Democratic Gov. John Lynch in May, gives same sex couples the same rights, responsibilities and obligations of marriage without calling the …

Breaking News: An armed man, possibly with a bomb, has taken people hostage at Hillary Clinton’s campaign office in Rochester, N.H. Clinton was attending a National Democratic Committee meeting in Virginia, but has canceled a 3:30 p.m. EST speech. New York TV station WNBC reported that the suspect has demanded to speak to her. Police said a man in his …

New Hampshire Governor John Lynch signed that state’s civil unions bill into law today. When the law goes into effect in January, NH will join Vermont, Connecticut, and New Jersey as the 4th state with civil unions available to same-sex couples. A total of 10 states now offer gay couples some sort of state-level recognition.

New Hampshire Governor Bill Lynch said today that he will sign the civil unions bill which is expected to pass the NH Senate next week. When that happens, New Hampshire will join Vermont, Connecticut and New Jersey as the fourth state to offer civil unions to same-sex partners. Gov. Lynch has said that he still opposes marriage for gay partners, …