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New Hampshire Union Leader: Business Briefs

NHPIRG held a news conference Monday to go over results of its survey, conducted last fall involving more than 200 small business owners across the state.

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The Nashua Telegraph: More Claims Made on Care Act

A progressive research group that did a select survey of small-business owners found strong support for creating a state health exchange in New Hampshire, one of only two states in the country to turn down a federal grant to help set one up.

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Report | NHPIRG Education Fund

The Small Business Solution

Last fall, NHPIRG researchers went door to door, and interviewed over 200 small business owners about their health care concerns. Small business owners answered an anonymous survey and were invited to share their related experiences.

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The Nashua Telegraph: New Hampshire gets D-minus in Report Gauging Transparency in Spending

New Hampshire is nearly failing when it comes to transparency in spending.

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The Union Leader: State’s finance website lacks key data

CONCORD — A government watchdog group on Wednesday gave the New Hampshire state government a grade of D-minus for its efforts to improve transparency of spending information.

New Hampshire Public Interest Research Group praised the state for instituting the Transparency NH website, which includes an online checkbook register.

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NH Legislature Taking Up Issues of Voting Reform

Republican leaders in the Legislature would like to change what you would need to bring to the polls to vote, when you could vote in the state primary and how the voting privilege would tie into your New Hampshire residency.

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Senate panel backs ballot ID proposal

Over the opposition of voter reform groups, a state Senate committee on Tuesday embraced legislation requiring voters to show a picture ID at the polls. “New Hampshire PIRG has long supported and engaged in efforts that make it easier for eligible voters to register and cast their ballots, including extending voting hours and voting on weekends,” said Addie Shankle , spokeswoman for NH PIRG.

“We’re seeing legislation develop in both the House and Senate that moves in the opposite direction from that, and it is deeply concerning.”

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Senate panel backs bill to require photo ID at polls

The Senate Public and Municipal Affairs Committee voted 4-1 to back Senate Bill 289, which requires a registered voter to present valid photo identification at the polls.

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Nuclear Plant Threatens Drinking Water, Study Says

Dangers assessed: Study says radioactive leaks from Seabrook or Vermont Yankee could impact millions.

Drinking water for almost 4 million people could be at risk of radioactive contamination from a leak or accident at the Seabrook nuclear power plant and over 3 million from Vermont Yankee, according to a study issued Monday which is disputed by some nuclear plants.

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Local Businesses React to NHPIRG Report

With the second anniversary approaching of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United case, NHPIRG and Citizens for Tax Justice reveal 30 corporations that spent more to lobby Congress than they did in taxes.

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Report | NHPIRG | Consumer Protection

Trouble in Toyland: The 26th Annual Survey of Toy Safety

The 2011 Trouble in Toyland report is our 26th annual survey of toy safety. In this report, we provide safety guidelines for consumers when purchasing toys for young children and provide examples of toys currently on store shelves that may pose potential safety hazards.

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Report | NHPIRG | Transportation

Fixing it First

America’s infrastructure is showing its age. Our nation’s roads, highways and bridges have increasingly received failing scores on maintenance and upkeep. For the nation’s bridges, lack of maintenance can result in the sudden closure of a critical transportation link or, far worse, a collapse that results in lost lives and a significant loss in regional economic productivity.

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Report | NHPIRG | Health Care

Making The Grade

When it comes to health care, there are few magic-bullet solutions for the many problems consumers face in the marketplace: insurers don’t compete for their business, leading to higher prices and lower quality. Important information about coverage is buried in the fine print, making it hard to know what’s really covered or which plan is right. And costs are continuing their unsustainable rise.  Yet there are policy solutions that can make a difference and give consumers a better deal on health care.

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Report | Consumer Protection

Trouble in Toyland

The 2011 Trouble in Toyland report is our 26th annual survey of toy safety. In this report, we provide safety guidelines for consumers when purchasing toys for young children and provide examples of toys currently on store shelves that may pose potential safety hazards.

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Report | Food

Apples to Twinkies

America is facing an obesity epidemic – one that’s hitting children especially hard. Childhood obesity rates have tripled over the last three decades, with one in five kids aged 6 to 11 now obese.

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