New Hampshire sues opioid makers for deceptive marketing

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

New Hampshire on Tuesday became the latest state to launch a lawsuit against a prescription painkiller manufacturer, Perdue Pharma, for deceptively marketing OxyContin.

The state’s attorney general accused Perdue in a civil complaint of downplaying OxyContin’s risk of addiction, overstating its effectiveness, and failing to report medical providers who were over-prescribing the medication. According to the document, the state believes the company “engaged in a long-running campaign of deception to create and sustain a market for its opioids.” | More…

|Washington Examiner

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Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber: The “Memo” That Made The Media Flip Out

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

Did you hear about the deplorable memo some woman-hating Google engineer shared? The media being the media, redacted, cherry picked and excerpted their way into their very own echo chamber tizzy. In reality,

“… a major purpose of the memo was to brainstorm ideas about how to make Google a more friendly environment for women without resorting to explicit sex-based discrimination.” | More..

|GraniteGrok

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IBEW reaches Northern Pass labor agreement

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

The Boston-based International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ Second District has reached an agreement with Eversource and the contractors chosen to build the 192-mile Northern Pass transmission project

In a press release, the IBEW said that the project labor agreement with Eversource, Quanta Services Inc. and ABB Inc., “ensures that a trained workforce will be used, including apprentice opportunities for the IBEW’s members and other construction trades.” | More…

| NHBR

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NH Dem Party Chair Ray Buckley proves the stereotype “You WILL be made to care”

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

It isn’t “can’t we just all get along,” rather, it is a demand that you not only recognize but affirm our issue. We’ve been seeing this on college campuses for the last two years as we see these college student twit authoritarians-in-hatching demand that everyone MUST agree with us (Evergreen, Harvard, Mizzou, to just name three).

Here, Ray Buckley does EXACTLY that – acts the bully for his LGBTQrstuvwxyz agenda and seriously, who the heck can keep up with the unending morphing of one group into another as well as the always changing acronyms. | More…

| GraniteGrok

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NH law changes ‘child porn’ to ‘child sex abuse images’

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

A bill that changed the title of the crime of “child pornography” to the crime of “child sexual abuse images,” will take effect on Sunday.

HB 220 was introduced by Rep. Renny Cushing, D-Hampton, in an effort to ensure that terminology used in the criminal code adequately reflects the nature of the offense. The bill was passed with broad bipartisan support and was signed into law by Gov. Chris Sununu at a public signing ceremony on June 7. | More…

| SeacoastOnline

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2 mosquito batches in Manchester test positive for West Nile

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services says two batches of mosquitoes from Manchester have tested positive for the West Nile Virus, the first of the 2017 season.

State Epidemiologist Benjamin Chan says no humans or animals have tested positive for the West Nile or for Eastern Equine Encephalitis this year. | More…

| AP

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Kimberly Morin: A Republican, a Democrat and the ACLU Walk into a Bogus Lawsuit

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

On Monday, a lawsuit that was brought by Representative Neal Kurk (Republican) and Senator Bette Laskey (Democrat), along with the ACLU of New Hampshire, was dropped. The lawsuit was brought to stop Secretary of State Bill Gardner from handing over publicly available voter database information to President Trump’s Election Commission.

New Hampshire already shares this information with 27 other states and as a result, there have been almost 95,000 duplicate voters registered in both the Granite State and other states with the majority of this number being dually registered in Massachusetts. | More…

| NH Political Buzz

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She blamed Islamophobia, then her husband was arrested for weapons smuggling

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

This evidence would suggest that the Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed blaming Islamophobia for being subjected to extra scrutiny on a trip back from Turkey by the wife of a man who had smuggled illegal items to Islamic fighters through Turkey.

Rather than being singled out due to “Islamophobia”, the more likely explanation is that her husband was already on the radar of the authorities. | More…

| Frontpage

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Ex-Auburn Rep. James Headd wins GOP primary for NH House seat

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

AUBURN — Republican primary voters chose between two former incumbents in a three-way race Tuesday, and ex-state Rep. James F. Headd of Auburn won the vacant Rockingham County nomination in the New Hampshire House.

Headd took all three towns in the district.

The primary Tuesday was for a vacant House seat representing the towns of Auburn, Chester and Sandown. *| More…

| Union Leader

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Army shoots down demands to scrub Confederate names from Fort Hamilton

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Steve Mac Donald

U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke has vowed to keep fighting after the Army shot down a proposal to rename two streets honoring Confederate generals at New York City’s Fort Hamilton.

General Lee Ave. and Stonewall Jackson Drive at the Brooklyn base, named after Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson, represent “an inextricable part of our military history,” the Army wrote in response to Ms. Clarke, who received the letter over the weekend, the New York Daily News reported. | More…

| WT

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