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Senate Votes To Lapse Kindergarten Program

By Josh Rogers on Friday, April 4, 2003.

The New Hampshire Senate has voted against extending the state's kindergarten construction program. The measure fell on a twelve to twelve vote.

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Another Mediscam?

By Mark Bevis on Friday, April 4, 2003.

House lawmakers have come up with a new scheme to boost Medicaid reimbursements to health care providers.

Finance Committee members estimate the plan could raise millions of dollars.

But the federal government has to approve the plan. That's because those millions are federal dollars.

For a decade, the state has successfully used a similar scheme to get federal money.

Doug Hall with the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies was one of that plan's originators.

He described the current effort to NHPR's Mark Bevis.

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The Red Cross and Freedom of Speech

By Carolyn Martin on Friday, April 4, 2003.

Americans often take for granted their first amendment right to free political expression.

But in Keene, that right has clashed with an organization's desire to remain politically neutral.

The issue involves the Red Cross and a volunteer who wanted to express his opposition to the war in Iraq.

The Keene Sentinel's Carolyn Martin has more.

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