WASHINGTON — How do Democrats get a Republican-controlled Congress to spend more money on fighting the national opioid epidemic?
Compare the heroin scourge to a terrorist threat, suggested Senator Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat.
Shame them, offered Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, and U.S. Representative Ann McLane Kuster, a New Hampshire… Read more »
Two local agencies have partnered on a new way to fight homelessness among area veterans.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has OK’d a new initiative developed through a collaboration between Keene Housing and Southwestern Community Services.
Through the initiative, which focuses on homeless veterans first, 20 new subsidies will be offered to give people… Read more »
HOLDERNESS — At the invitation of Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster, Dr. Susan Messinger of Holderness recently traveled to Washington, D.C., where on May 18, she appeared before Congress to address a topic that is close to her heart and hopefully make a difference for others.
It was Oct. 23, 2014 when Messinger lost her son Carl to a fentanyl overdose. It was during a week when… Read more »
Marie Kirk’s father was an artist. He sketched, he painted and he sculpted.
And in 1944, Kirk said, her father used these abilities – creativity and sheer artistic talent – to help save thousands of lives.
Peter Horbick was a member of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, a U.S. Army unit in World War II with a special purpose: to deceive enemy troops about… Read more »
MILFORD — The battle against the Northeast Energy Direct pipeline is over, but the fight to reform the federal agency in charge of approving such pipelines is just beginning.
And the first thing that needs fixing is getting public opinion into the mix when the agency — the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) — reviews proposed energy projects, said U.S. Rep. Ann… Read more »
MILFORD - The federal agency in charge of reviewing energy projects came under withering criticism Tuesday from U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster as she announced her sponsorship of a bill to give people more say in the approval process.
Talking to a gathering in Milford's Emerson Park, Kuster said her bill would provide a strong framework to help towns and their residents deal with energy… Read more »
Concord High School Principal Gene Connolly was honored on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday afternoon.
U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster, herself a Concord High School graduate from 1974, asked Speaker Paul Ryan for the floor and used her time to speak about Connolly, reflecting on the principal’s character, contributions to the school and… Read more »
Three New Hampshire families will meet with members of Congress Wednesday to tell their stories of losing a loved one to the opioid crisis in an effort to promote bipartisan support for legislation that will address the epidemic.
Doug and Pam Griffin of Newton, Jim and Anne Marie Zanfagna of Plaistow, and Amanda Jordan of Salem along with her mother, Joanne, will be among more than 100… Read more »
She found her son in the bathroom — the syringe still in his hand, his thumb and finger still bent around the plunger.
“It killed my son instantly,” Susan Messinger says of the heroin-fentanyl mix pumped into Carl, who died in 2014, eight days shy of his 25th birthday.
The lethal dose, of which she says turned out to be just fentanyl, never should have happened.… Read more »
After pushing legislation to address the opioid epidemic last week, U.S. Reps. Frank Guinta, R-N.H., and Annie Kuster, D-N.H., and Rep. Bruce Poliquin, of Maine, hosted a Congressional Hearing at Saint Anselm College Monday with a panel of 12 experts to collect feedback.
Guinta and Kuster, who hail from opposite sides of the aisle,… Read more »
