Saturday, May 11, 2013
Concord (ap) — New Hampshire’s 10 community health centers will get nearly $770,000 to help uninsured people sign up for coverage under the federal health care overhaul law. The money, announced by the Obama administration yesterday, addresses concerns from Congress and advocacy groups that many consumers will have …
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Washington — For the first time, the government is publicly revealing how much hospitals charge, and the differences are astounding: Some bill tens of thousands of dollars more than others for the same treatment, even within the same …
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Montpelier — The Vermont Senate yesterday passed a hybrid aid-in-dying bill under which stiff safeguards would be in place for terminally ill patients seeking lethal medication for the first three years, after which regulations would be lessened significantly. Sen. Claire Ayer, explaining her compromise amendment to the Judiciary …
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Washington — The Senate rejected an effort yesterday to expand the use of firearms on some of the nation’s most frequently visited federal lands, handing gun control advocates a modest success. The measure, backed by the National Rifle …
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Citing unresolved concerns about Northern Pass, Gov. Maggie Hassan yesterday urged Connecticut’s governor to oppose a pending rewrite of that state’s renewable energy plan that would reclassify large-scale Canadian hydropower for that state’s renewable energy goals. The proposed Northern Pass, which would bring hydropower from Canada to the …
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Montpelier — A state agency has cut a $5 million telecommunications grant to Vermont Telephone Co. in half. This is the third time the Vermont Telecommunications Authority has pulled VTel grant money in recent months. On March 29, it revoked two broadband grants to VTel worth $3.4 million. …
Thursday, May 9, 2013
The New Hampshire House yesterday voted unanimously to disavow “unfounded speculation” about last month’s Boston Marathon bombings, in a clear rebuke to Rep. Stella Tremblay of Auburn. The Republican, who didn’t attend yesterday’s session, has suggested in recent weeks that the U.S. government may have orchestrated the April …
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Montpelier (ap) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has given Vermont verbal approval to start demolition of the state office complex in Waterbury that was flooded by Tropical Storm Irene, and the work should begin this summer, Administration Secretary Jeb Spaulding announced yesterday. The state expects to get …
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Concord — If it were up to Jeff Bauman, he would have spent Sunday night out in Lowell, Mass., at a benefit concert in his honor put on by some friends. “I could easily go to it, but …
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Montpelier — Gov. Peter Shumlin and legislative leaders announced yesterday they’d reached a deal on a budget and taxes for the coming fiscal year that they say won’t require any additional tax increases, beyond one already in place on gasoline and diesel and another still under review on …