New Hampshire on Tuesday June 30, 2009

NH: Convicted ex-lawmaker in jail again
By Maddie Hanna, Concord Monitor
Former state representative Jim Ryan, whose criminal past surfaced last year after he was jailed on unpaid restitution charges, is locked up again - this time on allegations that he stole client records from a recent employer.
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NH: Prescription privacy law appeal stymied
By Monitor staff, Concord Monitor
The U.S. Supreme Court won't stop the state of New Hampshire from making doctors' prescription-writing habits confidential over the objection of companies that analyze and sell that information.
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Furloughs cut into state services
By Pauline Vu, Stateline.org Staff Writer
With states facing a $121 billion shortfall in the next fiscal year, a growing number of them have turned to squeezing their workforce for savings, and effects both great and small will be felt.
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NH: High court won't touch privacy law
By Kevin Landrigan, The Telegraph (Nashua)
New Hampshire survived the strongest legal test to a law making doctors' prescription-writing habits confidential.
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NH: Group wants Lynch to veto medical pot bill
By Kevin Landrigan, The Telegraph (Nashua)
A conservative watchdog group called upon Gov. John Lynch on Monday to veto a bill legalizing medical use of marijuana on financial grounds.
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NH: Greyhound racing in NH to end
By The Associated Press, Foster's Daily Democrat (Dover)
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Greyhound racing in New Hampshire is about to become history.
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NH: Report on dismissed sex cases due today
By Annmarie Timmins, Concord Monitor
The head of the state's superior courts said yesterday he has a draft of the internal investigation into the unexpected dismissals of three Hillsborough County sexual predator cases, but he doesn't yet know how much of the report he will be able to release, or when.
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US: Ruling adds teeth to state oversight of banks
By Neil Irwin, The Washington Post
For years, state governments have had little power to enforce consumer-protection and lending rules at the country's biggest banks. No more.
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US: Obama steers health debate out of capital
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times
WASHINGTON — With Democrats deeply divided over health legislation, President Obama is trying to enlist the nation's governors and his own army of grass-roots supporters in a bid to increase pressure on lawmakers without getting himself mired in the messy battle playing out on Capitol Hill.
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US: A green way to dump low-tech electronics
By Leslie Kaufman, The New York Times
Since 2004, 18 states and New York City have approved laws that make manufacturers responsible for recycling electronics, and similar statutes were introduced in 13 other states this year.
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