Congresswoman Annie Kuster of New Hampshire’s 2nd District will be hosting a roundtable today at 10:30 a.m. in the Peterborough Town Library. Kuster and other advocates for senior citizens will be speaking with the elderly about how Congress can best protect Social Security and Medicare.
A spokesperson for Kuster, Rosie Hilmer, said Wednesday that any seniors interested in… Read more »
BERLIN – As a part of her North Country tourism and energy tour, Congresswoman Annie Kuster visited the ongoing project at Notre Dame Senior Housing.
The former Notre Dame High School at 411 School Street in Berlinis a part of the Northern Forest Center's Model Neighborhood project.
The building will have four wood pellet boilers for heat. Two are… Read more »
PLAINFIELD — U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., heard some good news Thursday and some bad news at a roundtable discussion at Edgewater Farm.
The good news is small farms are increasing in New Hampshire. The bad news is that burdensome federal regulations are threatening small farms.
Kuster convened the roundtable of local business owners and agricultural leaders to learn how… Read more »
To Olivia Carle, a New London native and rising sophomore at Tufts University, the emerging conversation about sexual assault and harassment on college campuses is appreciated – but she worries that, for many students, it’s coming too late.
“If prevention is done only on college campuses, it’s not going to have the effect it needs to have,” Carle said at a… Read more »
Representatives from Dartmouth College,UNH, and advocacy groups joined Democratic Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster for a roundtable discussion about campus sexual assault today. The event at UNH Law in Concord focused on new legislation introduced in the US Senate.
The Campus Accountability and Safety Act would, among other things, fine schools up to… Read more »
U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, D-NH, will be joined by Greta Johansson, the SBA District Director for New Hampshire; Rhett Jeppson, SBA Associate Administrator for Veterans Business Development; Tameka Montgomery, SBA Associate Administrator for Entrepreneurial Development; and Seth Goodall, Regional Administrator for The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Region 1 (New England),… Read more »
House Republicans and Democrats voiced concerns to the Department of Agriculture's top environmental official today about an interpretive rule that they say is confusing, is risky and lacks input from the agriculture community.
The rule -- a result of a memorandum of understanding among USDA, U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers -- lists 56 conservation practices that growers and… Read more »
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Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle took to task the Agriculture Department this morning for failing to perform better outreach to farmers when identifying the 56 conservation practices that would be exempted from the proposed “Waters of the U.S.” rule.
Robert Bonnie, USDA’s under secretary for natural resources and environment, was questioned for… Read more »
In an attempt to address what’s referred to as the “family glitch” in the Affordable Care Act, U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster introduced the Family Coverage Act this week to expand access to premium tax credits for those whose employer-provided health insurance exceeds a certain amount of their annual household income.
The bill, proposed Thursday, seeks to amend the Internal… Read more »
On this Mother's Day, we honor our mothers, who suffered from a deadly and currently untreatable disease: Alzheimer's.
Trish Vradenburg (TV): My Mother was larger than life. She embraced life with style and grace and passion. She could capture a room just by entering it.
Congresswoman Annie Kuster (AK): My Mother was fiercely passionate, and she taught me to care about the issues that… Read more »
