Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Senate budget writers will count on about $61.4 million less in general- and education-fund revenue from state taxes and fees than the House did in its budget for the next two years. That figure doesn’t include revenue from New Hampshire’s Medicaid Enhancement Tax, which the Senate Ways and …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
States may consider lowering the standard for drunken driving to the level of a single dry martini after a recommendation yesterday from the National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB wants state legislatures to drop the measure from the current blood alcohol level of 0.08 to 0.05, about that …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
An American diplomat accused by Russia of spying for the CIA was ordered to leave the country yesterday after a highly publicized arrest that seemed designed to embarrass the United States and its premier intelligence service. The expulsion of Ryan Fogle was announced by the Russian Foreign Ministry, …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation of whether Internal Revenue Service employees broke the law when they targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, the latest setback for an agency that is the subject of withering bipartisan criticism and multiple congressional inquiries. Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Gov. Maggie Hassan wants to keep two state department heads on the job. The Democrat announced today she’s nominating Roger Sevigny, commissioner of the Insurance Department, for another five-year term. She’s also nominating Peter Hastings, acting commissioner of the Department of Information Technology, to lead that department on …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Monitor Minute Episode 17: May 14, 2013. The Monitor Minute is a daily run down of today’s top stories along with a preview of tomorrow’s headlines. Today’s stories include: Police: Concord man charged with assaulting girl in bedroom being investigated in similar case Pembroke zoning board rules against …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida – a potential GOP presidential candidate in 2016 – is airing a television ad in New Hampshire to support U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte for her vote last month against expanded background checks. …
Monday, May 13, 2013
In a sweeping and unusual move, the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of journalists working for the Associated Press as part of a year-long investigation into the disclosure of classified information about a failed al-Qaida plot last year. The AP’s president said yesterday that …
Friday, May 17, 2013
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida — a potential GOP presidential candidate in 2016 — is paying for a television ad in New Hampshire to support U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte for her vote last month against expanded background checks. The 30-second ad, “Quite,” was produced by Rubio’s Reclaim …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Monitor Minute Episode 16: May 13, 2013. The Monitor Minute is a daily run down of today’s top stories along with a preview of tomorrow’s headlines. Today’s stories include: Tammy Boucher of Pembroke living the sandwich generation roles of mom and daughter Homeless sue state over evictions from …