In New Hampshire, nearly 1,900 children a year - approximately 37 per day - become regular smokers. In our state alone, we spend $564 million on health-care costs directly caused by smoking. Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death…

It wasn’t long ago that energy was something most people took for granted. Gas was plentiful and cheap, renewable energy was something only “tree huggers” talked about and global warming was an exotic theory. How times have changed. These days,…

Seventeen members of the New England House delegation, including Congressman Paul Hodes and Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, recently came together in Boston for a unique morning at Suffolk University Law School. Hosted by the New England Council, the congressional delegation had…

What do Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama and Rudy Giuliani have in common? They’re the leading presidential candidates of the two major parties. But they have more in common than that. All choose not to offer specifics on waste…

Last year, 6.6 million children from families between 100 percent and 200 percent of the poverty level received health insurance through the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, and I fully support increasing this effort by 60 percent over…

When the phrase “first in the nation” is used, it’s usually a reference to New Hampshire’s presidential primary. But it can just as easily apply to the state’s college tuition savings plan - an overlooked jewel in the crown of…

It is fall, and things change quickly. Leaves, like blossoming flowers, are on our minds and in the headlines these days. Down in Merrimack, a high school senior’s flower-holding portrait was banned from the school’s yearbook on grounds that it violated…

The state Supreme Court’s latest pronouncement on education funding simply kicked the can down the road. Far enough down the road that the new taxes needed to pay for the new spending that the new definition of an adequate education…

New York Rep. Charles Rangel, the chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, last month said he was willing to consider reducing tax rates on America’s corporations to help them remain competitive in a global economy. He also…