Feds seem to be faring worse and worse against key targets
Bannon Could Start Network to Compete with Fox News
Unshaven and working from home in cargo shorts as he moves into “Bannon the Barbarian” mode, Steve Bannon is thinking bigger than Breitbart.
Axios reports,
Axios’ Jonathan Swan hears Bannon has told friends he sees a massive opening to the right of Fox News, raising the possibility that he’s going to start a network. | More…
Boston company says pod transportation could be in NH’s not-so-distant future
Imagine riding in a futuristic-looking, glass-enclosed pod attached to an elevated track to reach work or the mall. That concept could be tested in Berlin this fall, with the pods themselves possibly made in the Queen City.
“If Manchester was one of the first municipalities to sign an agreement for air rights on public rights-of-way – without any financial or technical risk, then the likelihood is 100% (OK, 99%)” of building pods in Manchester, Mike Stanley, CEO of Transit X, said in an email. *| More…
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A Third of Republicans Want McConnell, Ryan Out
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 36% of Likely Republican Voters think it would be good for the United States if McConnell stepped down as Senate majority leader, while 17% believe it would be bad for the country. Another 35% of GOP voters feel if McConnell stepped down as the top Republican in the Senate, it would have no impact. Twelve percent (12%) are undecided. | More…
Hassan’s secret: Covering up Medicaid problems
Last year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) warned the Hassan administration that New Hampshire’s expanded Medicaid program was not complying with federal law.
This was rather inconvenient for Hassan, who made the subsidized health insurance program the central plank in her campaign for the U.S. Senate.
To be fair to Hassan, she never wanted to have hospitals cover the non-federal share of expanded Medicaid benefits for able-bodied adults. She wanted to put New Hampshire taxpayers on the hook. But she did take credit for the final bill. *| More…
New Hampshire to D.C.: Interview with Kelly Ayotte
Harvard Political Review: You clerked for Justice Sherman Horton in New Hampshire and eventually became Attorney General of the state. Was there a particular moment when your political identity began to take shape or was it a gradual process?
KA: I would say it was more of a gradual process, in the sense that I was not politically active growing up. In college, I was involved in student government but not politically active.
I went to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office. Especially when you are at a prosecutorial office, it is just not a political place. I was a murder prosecutor, and that is not a political job. I had never been involved in any political campaigns, and I was actually a registered independent, although I always tended to vote conservative. But I did not talk a lot about my political views before that because of my role as a prosecutor. | More…
Anti police sentiment expressed in two Monadnock towns
In the last month James Rieth has gone out on Temple Road in New Ipswich with a sanding block, painters tape and black, white and red paint to cover the letters “FTP” on 6-7 stop signs. He tried paint thinner and Goof Off, a high-strength remover, but neither have worked.
“I don’t get it,” said Rieth of the graffiti, which stands for (expletive) the police. “It’s pretty juvenile what they are doing.”
Rieth also painted over the letters on a construction sign. But he noticed the letters were back about two weeks later. *| More…
Lawsuit: Poland Spring Water Is Committing ‘Colossal Fraud’
The complaint, which seeks class-action status, claims Poland Spring parent company Nestle Waters North America is actually selling water that doesn’t meet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration definition of spring water.
According to its website, Poland Spring water is collected “before it emerges at the surface” as a spring.
The FDA classifies spring water as “derived from an underground formation from which water flows naturally to the surface of the earth”. A class-action lawsuit filed earlier this week in a federal court in CT alleges that Poland Spring Water is not actually “100 percent natural spring water” from Maine. | More…
As Lyme Disease Increases In NH, Researchers Offer Sly Solution
In 2015, according to the most recent data, more than 28,000 people had confirmed cases of Lyme in the country. In New Hampshire, there 436 confirmed cases and another 93 probable. Might not sound like much, but in 2005 that number was a measly 265. Pennsylvania was the hardest-hit state, with 7,351 cases in 2015, compared with 4,287 a decade earlier. That’s a rate of 57.4 infections per 100,000 people.
But a new study may point to a promising approach to fighting the spread of the disease and help explain why it has been on the rise. And it all comes down to foxes. | More…
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Weare man driving 53 mph above speed limit arrested in Hooksett for DWI, marijuana
HOOKSETT — A 22-year-old Weare man faces multiple charges, including aggravated DWI, after police say he was stopped for driving more than 50 miles an hour faster than the posted speed limit.
Robert Blow also is charged with possession and transportation of a controlled drug, reckless driving, and an open container violation. | More…
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