{"id":27026,"date":"2026-08-29T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=27026"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T21:49:36","slug":"august-29-2026-new-england-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=27026","title":{"rendered":"August 29, 2026 New England News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top New England News from the past week!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>New Hampshire<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li><strong>NH scores outsized share of $224M Meta settlement<\/strong> \u2014 Attorney General John Formella&#8217;s decision to pursue New Hampshire&#8217;s own state-court lawsuit against Meta, rather than joining the multistate case, paid off this week with a strong settlement recovery. <em>(NH Journal \u2014 nhjournal.com\/nh-punches-above-its-weight-in-224m-meta-settlement\/)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>NH-01 Democratic primary turns into a healthcare bidding war<\/strong> \u2014 With the September 8 primary approaching, Democratic candidates in the 1st Congressional District are competing to stake out the most aggressive pro-healthcare positions. <em>(New Hampshire Bulletin \u2014 newhampshirebulletin.com\/2026\/08\/25\/nhs-1st-district-democratic-primary-has-become-a-whos-the-most-pro-healthcare-competition\/)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Appeals court sides with Bow parents in free-speech fight<\/strong> \u2014 A federal appeals court unanimously reversed a lower-court ruling that had allowed Bow school administrators to restrict a controversial T-shirt message, handing a win to the parents who sued. <em>(NH Journal \u2014 nhjournal.com\/appeals-court-sides-with-bow-parents-in-xx-free-speech-fight\/)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Maine<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li><strong>Maine to receive at least $56M in Meta settlement<\/strong> \u2014 Maine is set to collect a significant share of a sweeping multistate settlement with Meta tied to the platform&#8217;s impact on children. <em>(The Maine Wire \u2014 themainewire.com\/2026\/08\/maine-to-receive-at-least-56-million-in-landmark-meta-settlement-targeting-social-medias-impact-on-children\/)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Six write-in candidates trigger ranked-choice voting in Senate race<\/strong> \u2014 What looked like a head-to-head matchup between Sen. Susan Collins and Democrat Troy Jackson has been complicated by six write-in candidates, activating Maine&#8217;s ranked-choice system. <em>(The Maine Wire \u2014 themainewire.com\/2026\/08\/six-write-in-candidates-complicate-maines-u-s-senate-race-trigger-ranked-choice-voting\/)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Press Herald exposes &#8220;pink slime&#8221; sites posing as Maine news<\/strong> \u2014 An investigation identified three recently launched sites \u2014 on both sides of the political spectrum \u2014 that mimic local news outlets while being run by super PACs and partisan operatives. <em>(Portland Press Herald \u2014 pressherald.com\/2026\/08\/26\/inside-the-rise-of-maines-partisan-pink-slime-news-pages\/)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Vermont<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li><strong>Nearly 900 people mistakenly on mail-ballot rolls<\/strong> \u2014 State officials confirmed that close to 900 Vermonters who did not want to be registered to vote were nonetheless slated to receive mail-in ballots, an error caught just ahead of the election. <em>(VTDigger \u2014 vtdigger.org, Aug. 25 report by Shaun Robinson)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>South Burlington Catholic school offered for sale amid diocese bankruptcy<\/strong> \u2014 The Diocese, now in bankruptcy court, is privately offering to sell a South Burlington school for $4.3 million \u2014 a fraction of its $30.5 million appraised value \u2014 to try to keep it from liquidation. <em>(VTDigger \u2014 vtdigger.org, Deerfield Valley News report, Aug. 24-25)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>St. Albans dairy plant fight moves to arbitration<\/strong> \u2014 A federal judge declined to further intervene in the Teamsters&#8217; bid to halt the shutdown of an idle St. Albans dairy processing plant; the union&#8217;s retaliation claims will now go to an arbitrator. <em>(Vermont Public \u2014 vermontpublic.org\/local-news)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top New England News from the past week! New Hampshire NH scores outsized share of $224M Meta settlement \u2014 Attorney General John Formella&#8217;s decision to pursue New Hampshire&#8217;s own state-court lawsuit against Meta, rather than joining the multistate case, paid off this week with a strong settlement recovery. (NH Journal \u2014 nhjournal.com\/nh-punches-above-its-weight-in-224m-meta-settlement\/) NH-01 Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":15418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-england-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/qtq80-F6XNJi.jpeg?fit=2160%2C1440&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27027,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27026\/revisions\/27027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}