Posts by Maureen Milliken
NEWS: The “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act makes the most significant changes to Medicaid in two decades, including the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU: Changes to Medicaid don’t just affect those who are enrolled in it, but have an impact on health care costs in general, as well as state budgets.
The initial goal may be sidewalk and streetscape improvements to a two-block area of downtown, but recommendations in a report stemming from community discussion on the project see a much bigger picture.
The death of a Manchester woman who was pulled unconscious from Maine’s Sebago Lake Wednesday morning is being investigated, but the sheriff’s department said it’s a likely drowning.
The plan to turn the long-vacant Hallsville School building on Jewett Street into 36 apartments cleared another hurdle toward development last week, a win for affordable housing in the constant push and pull between the need to address the housing crisis and neighborhoods that want housing built, but somewhere else.
Thursday’s letter from 15 New England members of the House blasted the lack of information on the plan, and the harm it will have on the Northeast, as USDA moves most operations to regional hubs in North Carolina, Missouri, Utah, Colorado and Indiana.
Single-family home prices in Hillsborough and Rockingham counties are tens of thousands above those in the state’s other eight counties, continuing to push the state’s median sales price to a place out of reach for many.
Some 86% of Americans are stressed about grocery prices, with more than half of those polled – 53% – saying they are a major source of stress, and 33% saying they are a minor source of stress. The AP/NORC poll released last week had groceries at the top of the major stress list, above housing (47%), lack of savings (43%), income (43%), health care costs (42%), credit card debt 929%), student debt (18%) and child care cost (18%).
New tax and spending policies will have an effect on your finances – either good or bad – depending on your income.
When Jonathan Hutchins opened William & Sons Coffee Co. on the West Side, it hadn’t been part of a big plan. In fact, opening a coffee shop in New Hampshire hadn’t been.
Unhoused people who are dealing with mental illness or substance use issues will be involuntarily committed, while treatment programs that look to make them safter will be defunded under an executive order issued by President Donald Trump Thursday.