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“The next thing I knew the cat was leaping over a red squirrel, catching and tumbling with a grey squirrel that eventually broke loose and scrambled away. And it was no feral cat. It was a bobcat!”
Legislation to reinstate the law that prohibited siting a high-level radioactive waste dump in New Hampshire failed in the House on Thursday.
John Harrigan’s View from Above the Notches: It came in a column I did for InDepthNH.org, “Iowa, Schmiowa,” in which I wrote that I was “number than a two-by-four about presidential politics.” The problem with that phrase is that “number,” as in “He’s number than a fencepost,” looks and reads just like “I tried to get her telephone number and she smacked me number than a dead cod.
UPDATE: The attorney general appealed a judge’s decision ordering the state to issue a medical marijuana ID card to Linda Horan – who has since died – after issuing them to Horan and other qualifying patients.
This election cycle is flush with outside spending. As of today, super PACs, social welfare 501(c)(4) groups, trade associations, unions, parties and others (corporations, individuals etc) have spent $203.4 million this cycle. By this time in 2014, they’d spent less than half that much, Center for Responsive Politics data show, and in 2012 the number was just $61.9 million.
Helping military members and their families is the object of a new endowment that is being helped by a sizable donation from a Portsmouth couple. The Dan and Renee Plummer Endowment Fund will provide support for New Hampshire service members who are battling addiction.
A while back, Congress voted to curb soaring compensation for corporate officers by limiting tax deductions. Here’s how it went wrong.
Roger Wood Podcast: University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Gerald Friedman likes what he sees in Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ economic growth plan, but he likes former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as a candidate, too. Over 10 years, Friedman estimated under Sanders’ plan, the median income would increase $22,000 and 26 million jobs would be created. The unemployment rate would be 3.8 percent and the poverty rate would be cut in half, he said.
The state is appealing a judge’s decision ordering the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a medical marijuana ID card to Linda Horan so the labor activist – who has since died – could purchase cannabis in Maine.