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NH’s Largest Health Care Provider Pushing Early Retirement Following Funding Cut

A piece by Denis Paiste in the New Hampshire Union-Leader illustrates the continued fallout of state budget cuts on the health care sector: “Dartmouth-Hitchcock is seeking early retirements from about 725 employees, or 8.3 percent of its staff, at its main employees campus, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, and at community sites in Concord, Manchester, […]

2008 and 2009 Tough Years For Some NH Kids

In today’s Nashua Telegraph, Michael Brindley summarizes the findings of the yearly New Hampshire Kids Count Data Survey from the Children’s Alliance of NH.  Unsuprisingly, the study finds the recession has been tough for an increasing number of kids, “…an average of 16.8 percent of children aged 0 to 17, or one out of every six minors, participated in […]

Live Chlorine-Free Or Die? Super-Filtered Water Flowing Into NH

There’s a new trend among the water-conscious.  At least, that’s what the people at Maine-based startup Blue Reserve believe.  Avery Yale Kamila of The Portland Press Herald reports the company is offering a customers a bottle-free, super-filtered fresh water system.  The idea of going bottleless is to cut-out bisphenol-A, or BPA, a chemical found in […]

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