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FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013 file photo shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. A report released Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, by U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill finds that companies selling some of the most lucrative prescription painkillers funneled millions of dollars to advocacy groups that in turn promoted the medications’ use. Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, contributed the most money to the groups, funneling $4.7 million to organizations and physicians from 2012 through last year, according to the report. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

Trump calls for national prescription drug monitoring program, while N.H. still stuck in ‘initial phase of maturity’

by Ethan Dewitt Concord MonitorMarch 20, 2018

The State House dome as seen on March 5, 2016. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff)

N.H. Senate Nixes Death Penalty

by Ethan Dewitt Concord MonitorMarch 16, 2018

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2011 file photo, the Amtrak Downeaster passenger train travels through Portland, Maine. Banners were being installed and track work continued Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, as the rail line is prepared to extend its route from Boston and Portland onward to Brunswick in November. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Politics, Uncategorized

Reversing Course, N.H. House Approves Funding for Commuter Rail Study

by Ethan Dewitt Concord MonitorMarch 15, 2018

Moderator Ewen MacKinnon II drops a set of ballots into the ballot box during voting at the Chichester Grange Hall on Thursday, March 16, 2017. (ELIZABETH FRANTZ / Monitor staff)

Politics, Uncategorized

N.H. House Passes Bill for Controversial Change to Voter Eligibility

by Ethan Dewitt Concord MonitorMarch 7, 2018

A report issued by Community Organizing and Family Issues, "Stopping the Debt Spiral," describes how fees, fines, scams, predatory loans and overdue bills make it difficult for people to get out of debt and emerge from poverty. (Dreamstime/TNS)

Politics, Uncategorized

Bill Aims to Reduce Surprise Hospital Charges

by Ethan Dewitt Concord MonitorMarch 6, 2018

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt attends a meeting with state and local officials and President Donald Trump about infrastructure in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

EPA’s Pruitt Takes Heat for Surprise N.H. Trip

by Ethan Dewitt Concord MonitorFebruary 14, 2018

Jeff of Hampton, New Hampshre stands in front of the house he was foreclosed on in Epping, New Hampshire on Tuesday, January 23, 2018.

Politics, Uncategorized

Forced From Home: Legislation Would Rewrite State’s Foreclosure Laws

by Ethan Dewitt Concord MonitorFebruary 4, 2018

left, Lindsey Sojkowski, a school nurse at Hampshire Regional, looks at and record blood sugar levels of (right) Anthony Bartolomeo, who comes in daily to check his numbers for diabetes while Brittney Kane, a first year nursing student at HCC watches.

Politics, Uncategorized

Bill to undo requirements for school nurses introduced in House

by Ethan Dewitt Concord MonitorJanuary 21, 2018

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2013 file photo, Louis Peters fills out papers at the Henry J. Austin Health Center, in Trenton, N.J., to sign up for new plans through a health insurance exchange. Despite anecdotal evidence of high interest and the political stakes attached to Obama’s Affordable Care Act, a nation obsessed with keeping score of winners and losers lacks the data to pass early judgment on the success of a law that will in large part define the president’s legacy. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

Bipartisan bill would mandate right-to-know records over email

by Ethan Dewitt Concord MonitorJanuary 21, 2018

Loudon resident Chuck Cormier battles his way through the snowstorm and back to his truck Tuesday after voting at Loudon Town Hall.

N.H. Bill Would Let State Postpone Elections

by Ethan Dewitt Concord MonitorJanuary 20, 2018