NEWS
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NH man wanted for aggravated sexual assault caught in Glenburn


Russian Mars probe's fiery reunion with Earth could help re-entry predictions
"People should not panic. Space debris is re-entering all the time, including fairly large rocket bodies," said Michael Listner, a space law attorney based in New Hampshire. "However, the public should not be completely dismissive of the threat that space debris poses, either."


New Warden Nominated to Manage State Prison in Berlin


Vt. bans the synthetic drug called "bath salts"
Bath salts can cause complications that include high temperatures, seizures, muscle breakdown, kidney failure, heart rhythm disturbances and death


FEATURES
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Walking the walk: Recovery brings need to share hope
John, who is 28 and from Epping, plans to leave New Hampshire and walk to Florida and then to California to raise awareness about addiction and the effect it has on people's lives, society and families. John will leave from Phoenix House in Dublin, where he has been for the past nine months.


Reed map documents Mass. attempt to claim New Hampshire and Maine through fraud
The purpose of William Reed's 1665 map was to justify Massachusetts' claim to much of what are now Maine and New Hampshire, based on an aggressive and legalistic reading of its 1629 Charter.


Group buys NY site of Colonial British blockhouse


Former UNH Health Policy prof./Baruch College's Provost James McCarthy honored as member of Irish Education 100


Seether frontman Shaun Morgan headed to NH for the holidays


Quebec man's love of steam traction engines fostered by NH landmark Clark's Trading Post


BUSINESS
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FAHC dialysis sale scrapped
Bio-Medical Applications of New Hampshire has withdrawn its application to buy the clinics.


Wyatt named to board of Isotechnika Pharma Inc.
Mr. Wyatt received his Juris Doctor and Master of Intellectual Property from the New Hampshire School of Law.


NHPR: Incomes Grow Slightly Over the Summer


NH, Maine coastline is being used to develop sea level rise modeling tool of USM
The tool will be used to create a GIS model of cost avoidance strategies to protect against asset damage from sea level rise due to storm surge and coastal flooding.


Unlike NH, Vt. will use Hydro Quebec power to fudge its Comprehensive Energy Plan
The Plan also doesn't change the qualifier for hydroelectric power, continuing to view electricity from Hydro Québec as a renewable source, unlike other Atlantic coast states (New Hampshire and Connecticut, for example), which only provide the label “renewable” to smaller hydroelectric projects, at least where RPS standards are concerned.


New EPA rules threatening aging power plants
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said in a letter to the White House this month that the EPA mercury rule could "unintentionally jeopardize the reliability of our electric grid." At a speech in New Hampshire in November, GOP presidential candidate and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman predicted summer blackouts


$31.2M bond issued to fund Peterborough Retirement Community expansion


Eagle Tribune: Atkinson contractor says his bridge fix would save the town a bundle



COURTS / PUBLIC OVERSIGHT
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New Hampshire Woman, Children Win $8.5M in Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Jon Paul Lacaillade II, 38, of Meredith was killed in 2008 when a Loignon tractor-trailer ran over and killed him while he was bicycling in Porter, Maine.


New Hampshire Supreme Court opinions
■ 2010-795, Appeal of Raymond Letellier
■2010-828, Christopher Ruel v. New Hampshire Real Estate Appraiser Board
■2011-057, Hansa Consult of North America, LLC v. hansaconsult Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
■ 2010-017, State of New Hampshire v. Adam Mentus
■2010-190, State of New Hampshire v. Robert Towle
■2010-537, State of New Hampshire v. Jon M. French
■2010-563, Holloway Automotive Group d/b/a Holloway Motor Cars of Manchester v. Goran Lucic & a.
■2010-685, State of New Hampshire v. Michael B. Smith
■2011-439, Linda Thompson v. Christopher D'Errico


New Hampshire Supreme Court oral arguments calendar

Jan 12
■ Dana Chatman v. Strafford County
■ State of NH v. Steven Forest
■ NH DOT v. Pasquale Franchi
■ Haborside Assox. v. City of Portsmouth
■ CF Investments v. Option One Mortgage
■ State of NH v. Joshua guild

Jan. 18
■ Koleta Nygn v. Manchester District Court
■ Jason Antosz v. Doree Allain
■ Donald Gentry v. Warden Northern NH Correctional Facility
■ Sevent Ford v. NHDOT
■ Mark Brown v. Concord Group Insurance
■ Appeal of Hollis Education Assoc.


POLITICS
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NH Watchdog: NH state workers drive 1.5 million personal miles a year for non-business use


NHPR: The expiring tax breaks you might NOT have heard about


Twin Cities Daily Planet: MN-08: DFLers want answers regarding residency, endorsement
It is the residency issue that makes Rep. Chip Cravaack (who relocated his family to New Hampshire) so very vulnerable in the upcoming election.


NHPR: Q&A with Arthur Laffer: Why The Patron Saint Of "Reagonomics" Supports A Carbon Tax


PRIMARY
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With Perry's eggs all in Iowa, Mrs. Perry shows flag in New Hampshire


In 2010, Romney Said He Wouldn't Repeal The Individual Health Mandate In Obamacare


As Romney's firm profited in SC, jobs disappeared
GAFFNEY, S.C. — More than two decades ago, Mitt Romney's business venture came to town with a bounty of highly anticipated manufacturing jobs. The new plant, just past the gas station off Interstate 85, needed skilled workers to churn out thousands of photo albums. Four years later, the Holson Burns Group Inc. - the company controlled by Romney's Bain Capital LLC - closed the factory and laid off about 150 workers.


Bloomberg: Romney Say He Expects ‘Gordon Gekko' Attacks


OPINION
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Florida Will Break January's Three-Way Tie


Politico: New Hampshire voters should draft Hillary


Grant Bosse: RGGI program brings deficit spending to New Hampshire
Grant Bosse is Lead Investigator for the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, a free-market think tank based in Concord.


National Review: The Gingrich Gestalt


SPORTS
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Chris Gill: IndyCar, WGI needs to just get a deal done for 2013
No one can be faulted for the weekend-long series of rain showers that spoiled IndyCar's return to New Hampshire. But when one of Bernard's lieutenants ordered a restart on a wet track, wiping out several cars, including championship contender Will Power, the mistrust of the series chief steward that had been bubbling under the surface boiled over.