Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Senate Bill 48, passed last year, removed New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission oversight and regulation for much of the telecommunications industry, while preserving minimum consumer protections. The bill preserved the obligation of incumbent phone companies, like FairPoint, to provide basic phone service. It provided safeguards against unlimited rate …
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
New Hampshire has an unprecedented opportunity to expand access to treatment services for people with drug and alcohol problems: Medicaid expansion. We have some of the highest rates of alcohol and other drug problems in the country, yet as a state we invest very little in treatment and …
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
I had the opportunity to discuss the immigration reform bill with Sen. Kelly Ayotte – she wanted to hear the concerns of her constituents. We didn’t agree on everything, and I left her office not knowing how she would vote, but knowing that she was giving the bill …
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
If the Senate and House of Representatives are so sure they won’t raise taxes to fund Obamacare and since they are so “truthful,” how about they pass legislation saying the law will be automatically repealed should they not fund the percentage promised every year to states for increased …
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
In the mid-1970s my son, 22 at the time, was already addicted to alcohol. After his third arrest for DUI, my son was told by his attorney (a recovering alcoholic) that he needed help. My son spent one year in a residential treatment facility, after which he went …
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
In the June 14 issue of the Monitor, Fox News host Chris Wallace responded to the findings of the New York Times regarding the number of TV appearances made by different political figures. Between 2010 and June 2013, U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte had appeared 11 times while U.S. …
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
The state of New Hampshire has been running a Medicaid scam for years to shore up its budget. Now that we can legitimately get federal money to expand Medicaid, it’s quite ironic that the Senate Republicans have decided they don’t want it. Instead they want to make 58,000 …
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Kudos to the Monitor for its editorial (“No need to break parolee confidentiality,” June 9) condemning the idea of making public the identities of citizens on parole – in essence, a criminal offender registry. I do, however, take issue with one paragraph. The editorial stated, “The state’s corrections …
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
This weekend, Iran’s interior minister confirmed that Hassan Rowhani had secured an outright majority in presidential elections, eliminating the need for a run-off. Rowhani trounced the competition, securing just over 50 percent of the vote and beating his …
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
By applying old principles to new science, the U.S. Supreme Court found its way to the right decision in an important genetics case last week. The result will be lower costs, more alternatives and perhaps improved results in testing that can reveal whether women carry mutations that make …
