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Under the state's new health insurance law, known as Senate Bill 110, small businesses across the state are now required to gather extensive information about the health of their employees and their families. Some small businesses owners and human resources managers find the new family health statement forms burdensome and intrusive. But advocates for these insurance reforms say gathering more information is the only way to create more competition in the state's health insurance market. More competition they say will lower health insurance costs. New Hampshire Public Radio's Raquel Maria Dillon has more.

New Hampshire?s natural beauty is often big and hard to miss- like lakes and mountains- but some is more subtle- like wildflowers. John Hession and Valarie Michaud not only want to make sure you don?t miss these small natural beauties, but want to make sure you know what you?re looking at. They collaborated on the new field guide, The Wildflowers of the White Mountains. The guide actually covers the White Mountain region from the peaks to the valleys and everything in between. The are avid hikers and climbers themselves and wrote this small, practical guide after being frustrated with the wildflower guides that are too general for this region.